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 […]

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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 […]

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Comfortable inaction

Comfortable inaction is not doing something because at the present time the consequences of not acting are not bad enough to force you to take action. To make this clearer here are some examples: • Thinking “I need to lose weight,” but doing nothing about it because you can still fit into your clothes. • […]

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A really scary story for halloween

When I was a kid we didn’t have trick or treat. We didn’t really have Halloween at all – we might watch a scary movie – that finished by 1am when the TV went off at a weekend. Yes – I AM that old. Now here’s a really scary story for Halloween… There is nothing […]

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Hearing vs Listening

Hearing vs Listening… Hearing and listening aren’t the same thing. What do you mean, Tom, you may ask? Listening skills are important in business… Actually, scratch that: IN LIFE. Yet there are still so many of us who fail to listen properly. (Myself included.) Hearing occurs with or without your consent… Like that aggravating mutt […]

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