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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Knowing what not to charge for.

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Being telepathic.

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The Great Reaveraging of Me.

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Redefining and undermining industry norms.

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Speaking in ‘chunks’.

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Visual shorthand.

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Some things resonate at any age, don’t they?

May 15, 2024 No Comments

Some things resonate at any age, don’t they? I’m lucky. I work as Marketing and Brand Director for a few companies. But luckier still,…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Unignorability.

May 14, 2024 No Comments

When you increase your unignorability. It’s a pretty good place for you and your business to be. A common business question is, ‘When it…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Difficult to get is not the same as valuable.

May 8, 2024 No Comments

Difficult to get is not the same as valuable. I chat about this when I help business leaders. Sat at the Board Table. As…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Brain-switch.

May 7, 2024 No Comments

I’m not sure about you, but I think I have a Brain-switch. When it’s on, I’m quite clever. When it’s off, I’m not. So…

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Don’t blow. Suck.

May 1, 2024 No Comments

Something I saw yesterday made me think about how we all solve problems. And in conclusion, I advocate the following. Don’t blow. Suck. I…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Childhood lasts a lifetime.

April 24, 2024 No Comments

Childhood lasts a lifetime. I really like this thought because it can be read, and read into, in so many ways. A reminder of…

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Fast & Funny.

April 23, 2024 No Comments

When we’re asked, ‘What do you do?’ – I don’t think we answer that question at all. We answer this question instead: ‘What do…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Coddiwomple.

April 22, 2024 No Comments

For me, right now, for various reasons, Coddiwompling is essential. Coddiwompling is ‘travelling purposefully towards an as yet unknown destination’. In a certain frame…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Hate is good.

April 19, 2024 No Comments

Hate is good. When I started Kickboxing Fitness, I hated it. Then I started Kickboxing Drills which I hated more than the Kickboxing Fitness.…

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Not taking risks… is risky. (I have a thing for older men).

April 17, 2024 No Comments

Not taking risks… is risky. When I ran brand and marketing agencies I’d deliver ‘opinion’ events. One was called ‘Marketing is a Waste of…

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It’s such a danger to me. Imagining that I have it all worked out.

April 16, 2024 No Comments

There’s a long list of problems that I cause for myself. And on that list is this. I sometimes think I have it all…

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Someone I now know quite well, wrote something inside my trousers about 20 years before I met him.

April 10, 2024 No Comments

Someone I now know quite well, wrote something inside my trousers about 20 years before I met him. I sometimes recall what he wrote,…

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Complexity is like gravity.

April 8, 2024 No Comments

Complexity is like gravity. It pulls. We get drawn towards it. Avoid it. If you can. Simple is much better.

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The right chairs. And the right bottoms.

April 7, 2024 No Comments

First to pull up a chair, at the head of Board Table, is the Managing Director. The tight-necked, moody, multitasking visionary. Then the Finance…

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I miss myself.

April 6, 2024 No Comments

Yesterday, I listened to YouTube relaxy piano music as I was writing. I don’t know what it was. I don’t know composers. If ever…

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Am I happy?

April 5, 2024 No Comments

Izobel and I went to see Portrait Artist of the Year being filmed this week. Seven-year-old Iz was bored after an hour. The first…

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Mind the Leprechaun.

April 2, 2024 No Comments

Lisa squeaks, squeals or ‘ouches’ out-loud half a dozen times each day. Nowadays, so often do these exaggerated responses to featherlight bumps, scrapes and…

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Kiss Anxiety.

April 1, 2024 No Comments

It’s never a good idea to put a kiss at the end of any message you send to anyone you know through work. Because…

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