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Ok, I admit it, I’m jealous of people who are innately focussed! Without even thinking about it, they are just able to focus, to identify what is crucial and give full attention to that.
That just doesn’t come naturally to me. I am someone who gets bored very easily. Focussing on one thing and getting it [...]
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#StrengthsDay is back after a week off. This is where we take a different persons five StrengthsFinder talent themes and profile them. If you would like to be in a chance of being profiled in the future – or to find out more – then you can do that here.
This week we’re profiling Chris’s five [...]
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I love grand slam tennis. In particular I love Wimbledon, the home of tennis. And it feels like the last two yeas we’ve been served up a real treat. Last years final between Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal was arguably the greatest game of tennis ever played. Who would of thought that the very next [...]
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When our dreams are healthy they are not limited by our current circumstances and yet, at the same time, they are built on a healthy realism.
It is easy to end up falling off on one of two sides of this healthy balance though:
Having a dream that is not founded upon a healthy degree of realism
Having [...]
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I came across this fascinating article in Business Week today from back in October last year. It’s an interview with Stephanie Chick by Marshall Goldsmith.
I thought the below comment in particular was really insightful and thought-provoking:
The hard truth is that talent alone won’t help you sustain success in today’s business environment. Leaders have to look [...]
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We finished off last week talking about the fact that talent is never enough. If we want to live successful, fulfilled lives where we maximise our potential and become all that we can be, it’ll take more than just our talent, important as that is.
And yet this reality is largely ignored in so much of [...]
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Today sees the launch of this dedicated new site – www.samradford.com – where the daily (Monday to Friday) blog for Awaken is now available. This is really a more personal sister site to Awaken Consultancy.
The purpose in separating this from the business site is to make the content more accessible for a broader audience. The [...]
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We all have unique talents and abilities. No one else is quite like us. Try as we might, we can never be anyone else. The best that you or I can hope for is to be the best ‘me’ we can possibly be. And that’s healthy. We need to make our pursuit of success something [...]
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We talked yesterday about the importance of doing what we love. Dream as we might of being an amazing musician or sportsman, most of us don’t love the thought of being great at that enough to make the necessary sacrifices.
Instead we need to find the area where what we do love to do is matched [...]
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Have you ever watched a brilliant pianist or footballer or entrepreneur and thought, I wish I could do that? You see the ease at which they perform, the joy it clearly brings them, and you think how amazing it would be if you could do that.
I call this talent jealousy. I think we all suffer from [...]
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