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The Archive
Welcome to the archive. Here you’ll find pages of life advice on personal values, emotional intelligence, relationships, finding purpose, and much more.
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Three Tragedies & A Laugh
PART ONE: Nolan Gandon sat on her lecture desk. She was not particularly beautiful – she was relatively short and somewhat round. Her feet dangled
I Love A Good Funeral
You can’t control whether history will remember you or not but you can control what it could remember.
How Many Summers Are Left?
If you are like many, you have been very keen to get that last year out of the way. Done and Dusted. Given it has been one of the years of your life, the one and only of its type – should it have been wished so quickly into the rear view mirror?
Meat Pie Friends
Relationships bring the most joy and the most sorrow. Are you looking in the wrong place for joy?
Pay Attention
Pay Attention: How to tell what lies ahead, what someone is thinking and what to do about it.
Forty-Eight Things I Learnt in 2020
2020 has been a very different year for all of us. Mostly unplanned. We adapted and here we are at the end of it. Did we learn anything of value? Here are forty-eight ideas that I gleaned from looking back over the last twelve months.
Time For Laughter – Its Christmas
Laughter makes everything better… what more can be said – Its Christmas Time. Make sure you click the image. Have a Great One.
Two Things to Change The World.
In a busy life it is often hard to see how one person can impact the world and people around us. Here are Two very simple things we can all do to make impact. To influence the world in ways that express our values.
Caesars’s Magic Success Secret
A Life Success Secret That All Great Leaders Use to Gain the Upper Hand.
Daily Habits for Health & Longevity.
What we do daily builds the foundations from which we create a life. Here are Ten of my Daily Habits which build and maintain my health. I got them from some pretty smart people. Enjoy..
Brett’s Philosophy
A friend’s throw away line has haunted me for years. It has help me live a better life – Will it do the same for you?
Great Customer Service Guaranteed
Sick and Tired of not being looked after like you expect. What can you do to get great service? It’s not as hard as you think and the rest of your life will benefit.
The Force Is Strong In Tradition
The Star Wars phenomenon was just about to hit our city. It was school holidays, my friend Rick and I had scheduled to be one of the first to experience the adventure.
The Importance of Keeping A Secret
Is a secret something you tell one person at a time? Or is it something more?
All I Want for Christmas Is Five Cherries?
We all have the opportunity to ask life for a return. What do you want? How do we deal with poor choices.
Forgiveness
The hardest thing is often forgiving ourselves; sometimes, it is often easier to forgive others for their crimes against us, than to forgive ourselves for being somewhat less than we think we ought to be.
“Be Happier & Get More Done.”
Use minimum standards of performance to advance your life easily. Create new habits and live a satisfying life.
