Category Archive: Blue Blogs

Leadership

Being in a leadership position is essentially about being PART of the team, not ‘in charge’ of it. It’s interesting when a person takes on a leadership position and feels that they have to make all the decisions themselves instead of seeking advice and gathering around them a group of people who can enhance the …

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Power, Artists And Paint

Welcome to Friday. Another awesome week. There’s really no introduction needed for this week’s quotes: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker – Pulitzer Prize winning author and activist   “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once …

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Present Thinking

I was inspired this week when I spent an hour or so with someone for whom a lot of things had, to an outside observer, gone “wrong” – but that is not how she saw it. Her reaction was much more along the lines of “so what do I do about it?” or, “so, this …

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Motivation

Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated even if there are really important things that need to get done. And just telling yourself that it’s important to do them is simply not enough! Here’s three strategies that might help: • Identify a goal that you will be working towards by doing them. • Break the tasks …

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Multi-tasking

All the research that’s now available about “multi-tasking” fascinates me. Despite what some people believe, the human brain is simply not designed for multi-tasking and when we try to do it we end up doing lots of things half well. If we’re trying to do two tasks at once, studies show that the brain will …

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Random Quotes

I hope you’ve had a brilliant week! My Friday quotes this week are totally random and I really can’t connect them … “When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew …

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Challenge To Action

Don’t let excuses get in the way of action! And I know that most of us are prone to convincing ourselves that they are ‘legitimate reasons’… and maybe sometimes they are. However, when next you respond to a challenge or an obstacle with a thinking process that begins with “But I can’t because …” stop, …

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Self-belief

Self-belief is a powerful driver for achieving the best outcomes from what we do. But, just as common sense is not nearly as “common” as one might expect, neither is self-belief. It’s just that not many people will readily talk about their self-doubts! Even highly successful business people and sportspeople are not always as full …

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