16th January 2015
Today, we’re going to play a little game…
I want you to imagine you’re a scientist, and you’ve been tasked with producing the best possible cure for a deadly disease. You have a big budget, a fully-equipped laboratory and a lifetime of research ahead of you.
What do you do?
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31st October 2014
Something that should scare you at Hallow’een. And Christmas. And Easter. And all the times in between…
We like to kid ourselves sometimes that we can’t do action X because of reason Y.
Now reason Y may be very convincing, but we need to be careful to make sure that we’re not just a tiny-weeny little bit glad that it exists. Are we hiding behind that reason, because we’re afraid of taking action? Here’s a little secret… the ‘reasons not to’ are all rubbish. And here’s another secret – you ARE capable of doing what you want to do, if only you believed it.
17th October 2014
Who are the strongest people at the gym?
There are people with amazing bodies at the gym that I can’t help but admire. Some people go to the gym every single day. They work out because they absolutely love it. They love the feeling it gives them, almost as much as the body it gives them. The buzz of adrenaline lifts their entire day. They have the toned physique, the rippled muscles, the raw strength and the cardiovascular superiority. They have the ability (if required) to bench-press me and the whole of my little family all at once.
They. Look. Amazing.
There is certainly a lot to admire in these people. But they’re not the gym-goers that I wanted to write about.
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3rd October 2014
This inspirational artwork design was originally produced ages and ages ago, back when Hello Inspiration had about two-and-a-half fistfulls of followers on Twitter.
I re-posted it to Twitter and Facebook a couple of weeks ago and had a mini-hit on my hands…
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25th September 2014
You hear it all the time… “Follow your passion”, or the alternative “Do what you love”.
It seems like the new mantra for entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs in today’s anything-is-possible world. And sure, it sounds tempting – I mean, who doesn’t want to follow their dreams, right? What they don’t tell you is why the ‘follow your passion’ approach works…
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