Tagged: how we think
5 Thought Hacks To Grow Your Business (includes Mental Chicken quest)
Here’s the thing…
You’re just about keeping your business going in these lean times. You’re getting some business in – from well-established customers and clients maybe – but no growth. Everyone you speak to seems to say the same thing: ‘Things are very tight… and we’re just fire-fighting Continue reading
How To Sell When You Hate It
Imagine, please, you are a cave person. Paleolithic woman or man. You make a cave painting – a horse, some hunting, a stag. Do you:
1) Yell to everyone in your village ‘Come and see what I’ve done, folks… it’s brilliant!’
2) Or selectively target individuals Continue reading
Marshmallow Motivation
In your view is success about aggression, drive and resilience or could it be much more to do with how we handle the soft and fluffy stuff of temptation?
In 1972, Stanford psychology professor Walter Mischel, ran a much-reported experiment. Pre-school children were given 1 marshmallow each, Continue reading
51 Moves to Becoming An Expert
your stance
1. Know something…really know it, love it, sleep it, eat it, marinade yourself in it…
2. So you experience an overwhelming compulsion to communicate it
3. And you will try Continue reading
Should You Stop Being Nice?
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‘Wonderful post’
‘you are awesome’
‘so inspiring’
Lovely, isn’t it? Getting positive Continue reading
Is Advice becoming Your Dark Destroyer?
In Middle-earth on the web currently, where marvellous teachers with names like Guido and Korval advise on formatting. No wonder games-developers-turned-fantasy-writers dominate online book sales. They are the only folk who really know what’s going on.
Now if you earn your living from giving advice in one form or another, you’ll know this is a demanding activity. Here are some contradictions Continue reading
Save Money: Be Your Own Shrink
Is your role giving you a headache at the moment?
You were enjoying it and it was absorbing you. Yes, there were challenges, and yes, it needed energy – you maybe had a lot to learn. Then bang! the economic downturn. Your developing, growing and exploring stopped. To be replaced by curbing, policing and saying no.
‘Up and at them’ turned into reduce and retreat.
You notice Continue reading
Why We Love Lists
1. We can disagree with them
2. They create an illusion of order in the universe
3. Our wannabe instincts get motivated by them…
4. Or they confirm our prejudices i.e. the Rich (or Greedy) list, the Top Intellectuals ( or Pretentious) list, the Happiness Creators ( or Clearly Deluded) list
5. They reaffirm that Alfred Alder, champion of the inferiority complex has been massively overlooked
6. And that his view that many of us are status obsessed is correct
7. Lists show us feel we can control something….anything!
8. And they make us feel significant: we have stuff to order.
9. 8.5 bloggers out of 10 write list posts constantly and 7.3 out of 10 web surfers read ‘em. List posts provide convergent content in a divergent online context: a path in the forest.
10. Sadly, they can indicate where you’ve gone wrong in life. On the Rich, Intellectual and Happiness Creators lists published last Sunday there is not a single psychologist. Oh dear, stuffed. Time to start the 5 Possible Reinventions list….
Why Self-Criticism’s a Gift
Helping a friend with a blog idea at the moment, we are deep in critical thinking. We analyze the blog’s positioning: who will it speak to, why would the content be of interest to them and how to negotiate personal and professional roles through the blog. We attempt to be constantly discerning Continue reading
