Ah shucks, I liked this one – not every experiment works out How much do you experiment in life? 🔬 I bet it’s probably not enough; the thing is experimentation is where all the good stuff comes from. 🤓 Because as humans, the lessons we seem to absorb the most are the ones we learn ourselves (this was […]
A lively group “We’re running a sweepstake in the office about how long it’ll be before you make it onto LinkedIn Lunatics” So, said a friend of mine a year ago. At the time I didn’t know what LinkedIn Lunatics was but now I very much do 😔 What is LinkedIn Lunatics? For those who don’t know it’s […]
Don’t make eye contact 👀 Would you approach a stranger in a bar? 🍹 How about talking to a random person on a train? 🚉 If just the thought of doing either of these makes you anxious 🫣 then you may be surprised at what I write next: Elevators are the perfect place to meet new people Yep, I said it! How do […]
And another good one gets away 😞 A while back I wrote a blog all about “What I’ve learnt from my business life that also applies to my dating life” ♥️. I followed it up 6 months later with a blog explaining why I was giving up on dating apps 💔. Both blogs turned out to be very […]
THE THOUSAND POST SPRINT — One person’s extreme challenge to test the power of connections on social media [Part 2 of 2] You can’t please everybody Last December I undertook a gargantuan social media challenge partly to learn more about human behaviours and the algorithm that sits behind LinkedIn and partly because I was bored; in this second […]
THE THOUSAND POST SPRINT — One person’s extreme challenge to test the power of connections on social media [Part 1 of 2] This looks scary Last December I undertook a gargantuan social media challenge partly to learn more about human behaviours and the algorithm that sits behind LinkedIn and partly because he was bored; in this first part of […]
Push vs Pull Influencing — from an EQ point of view there is only one long-term winner 🥇 Why anything sustainable can only really rely on Pull-style Influencing Clearly my new gym routine is working 😉 Going into 2025 I decided this was the year I would stop Pushing so much ❌ No, I’m not talking about opening doors […]
If you want to achieve anything in life: It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being consistent; here’s how you do it A bin for leaves and a toothbrush walk into a bar…. What the hell have dental hygiene and leaf collection got in common? 😀🍃 Both reminded me of the secret of success; something we all know […]
Why you should share your goals more widely — its good for IQ, EQ and FQ Someday I’ll learn how to order numbers 😂 As a strategist and emotional intelligence expert, I hate resolutions but I am a big fan of goals 🥅. In fact I regularly tell clients that we won’t start working with them until we have clarity […]
Damn you fruit, don’t fall out! Friendships are like this bowl of fruit 🍐🍊🍏; we all know that fruit are good for us but it’s easy to let things slip, or to get distracted by junk food 🍟, and the bowl becomes empty pretty quickly unless you refill it* Ok, so the analogy might need some work 🤔, but […]
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