What is a protopreneur?
We've all heard of entrepreneurs, haven't we? And most know what a 'micropreneur' is. And a 'solopreneur' too. Even 'Mumpreneurs' (and 'Dadpreneurs', according to Rachel Elnaugh). But
Life Purpose
Like many of us, I've spent a fair chunk of the last few years looking for that elusive short-cut to wealth & success. In a conversation last week with
I seem to be in mismatching* mode these last few days – here’s another old saw I don’t agree with.
I guess it depends what you understand by “regret”. I
What a crock of ****!
I love sitting around in beachfront bars, sipping a cold beer, occasionally glancing up from some esoteric tome to observe the passing totty. Regrettably, I
There's far more information out there than we could possibly cope with, so we use our filters to sort out the information we actually need. These filters come from our beliefs and values, our culture, our society, our personal experience, our learning ... in fact pretty much every around us right now, and that we've been exposed to in our past. And it's our filters that create our version of reality, how we see the world we're interacting with.
Quoted, I believe, in Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Marianne Williamson famously said:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It
Now, I'm not talking about the time you spend gawking at the goggle-box (though that really is a complete waste of time), and I'm not talking about the time you
I saw Marcus Alexander of Confidence Plus give a talk yesterday at the Surrey Business Club, and he used an interesting formula¹, that gels with my post last week about
.... each generation has to do better than the last one"
That's a quote from a TED talk by Hector Ruiz (CEO of AMD), talking about the '50x15' initiative.
It struck me