Life Lessons

What I Needed to Hear

Share Take a Seat I have something to tell you but you best sit down because it might get a little uncomfortable. You ready? Okay, here I go… Not everybody likes me. Shocking, I know. Who would’ve thought? Amazingly, I piss some people off. Wow, I didn’t see that coming. Much. Whether it’s speaking to [...]

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Marketing Vs. Information

Share Story Telling Marketing is a story that clever people tell. The objective of their story-telling is to push a button that makes you and me want to spend money on whatever it is they’re selling. The marketer is all about creating an emotional connection with you because emotional you buys stuff she doesn’t need. Logical you, [...]

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Lessons Learned Along the Way

Share Remember Me? Hi Guys. Sorry I’ve been somewhat scarce lately. I needed a little time out to attend to a few things in my non-cyber world. My business partners (Johnnie and Mikey) and I have been renovating our gym and it’s fair to say that, as a handyman, I’m a good blogger. If you [...]

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Lesson or Catastrophe?

Share Hi Team. The following is a slightly modified extract from my latest book. No Failures? As we’ve already discussed, in life, there are no failures until we say so. In fact, there are no universal failures at all – only individual responses to certain experiences, situations and events. One person’s failure will be another [...]

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Open-Mindedness

Share Not So Smart After All When I was twenty-seven, I thought I knew almost everything. At thirty-seven, it was becoming apparent that I wasn’t nearly as smart as I had originally thought. Now, at forty-seven, I realise I don’t know much at all. In fact, if I stay on my current trajectory, by fifty-seven [...]

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When Speaking Doesn’t Work, Try Communicating

Share Great With Words, Not So Good With People Have you noticed how some people are great at speaking but not so good at communicating? That is, they seem to have an adequate vocabulary and more-than-adequate speaking skills but for some reason (or reasons) they just don’t communicate effectively with others. They talk a lot [...]

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Unsubscribing Because of this Photo!

Share The Easily-Offended Have you noticed how some people have an amazing capacity to find a needle of negativity in a haystack of hope? If there’s any way to get offended, bothered or pissed off, they’ll find it. Yep, it seems that some people enjoy stamping their foot and getting their knickers in a knot [...]

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The ‘It’s Not My Fault’ Generation

Share Hi Guys, hope you had a fun, if not, relaxing and enjoyable weekend.  Okay, so I need to warn you that today’s post is not so much a personal-development instalment as it is me thinking out loud about some stuff I’ve been pondering lately. Some might call it a minor rant. I guess it’s [...]

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Your Turn to Teach: Parenting

Share Once Upon a Time… Once upon a time here at me-dot-com we had a weekly cyber-get-together where some of my readers would walk up to the front of our cyber-classroom and share some of their wisdom, ideas, insight and theories on life and the complexities that lie therein. That is, they would teach the [...]

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When is Enough, Enough?

Share Hi Guys, it’s CJ. Remember me? I know, it’s been a while. A long while. I’ve been busy marking the Year Twelve Modern History exam which means I’ve been sitting in a huge room with rows and rows of markers reading almost a thousand essays each. Now I know what it feels like to [...]

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