Why Black Friday has turned everyone into an idiot The short answer: the definition of a lunatic could be that of a shopper on Black Friday. You can buy stuff cheaper, that actually costs you MORE. That’s right: you won’t actually save that much money. How so? Because you’re being tricked. It’s the retailers Black […]
Woman’s Hour
This morning I was on Woman’s Hour with Jenny Murray. The other guest speaker was Laurie Cohen, who has written a book tracking women’s thoughts about their careers over 17 years and finding out if their career aspirations have come to fruition. Jenny asked me why I had always known I wanted to run my […]
The law of attraction
You may have heard of the law of attraction. It refers to the belief that positive thoughts and actions are magnets for positive life experiences, whilst negative thoughts are magnets for negative life experiences. A wise man once said to me, “the universe responds to the vibrations you give out.” Sounds like some mystical hippy […]
25 Years Of Planning
25 Years Of Planning… I was watching the news yesterday about the “Rosetta” mission – a robotic probe landing on a comet 300 million miles away from earth. It’s an amazing achievement and took 25 years to plan and execute, apparently. The probe was launched more than 10 years ago on 2nd March 2004, estimated […]
The Definition of Insanity
I am sure you have heard this before – The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The quote has been attributed to both Einstein and Franklin. According to Wiki – neither are true. But the statement sure is. And that made me think – why is […]