I said this recently to a colleague and thought a useful reframe to share after blue Monday this week. Typically new year starts with renewed attention on who we are, what we’re not doing well and where we could improve. Blue Monday is typically a day in January when people have tried new actions, failed […]

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Improving decision making is an area I’ve been paying attention to over the last few months. I heard on a podcast recently with Shane Parrish (Farnam Street) a quick summary to help you in your decision making: What are the variables? How do the variables interact? How am I fooling myself in this situation? There […]

Read More Decision making and 5 principles

On a call recently with one of my friends, we were discussing how people can experience the same thing, yet react to it totally differently. We can only control how we respond to events, I don’t think we have much power to control everything that happens to us. We can’t stop the rain, but we […]

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