by DavidFraser | Sep 3, 2014 | Personal Mastery
We’re very mindful of minimising our use of tangible commodities—like paper, for example. So much so, that it’s a kind of obsession. It’s important to conserve scarce resources—of course, it is. We do need to live in a sustainable way. Sometimes though… In...
by DavidFraser | Aug 27, 2014 | Personal Mastery
I’m struck recently by the immense power and importance of a very simple idea… If you have a mountain to climb, all you really have to do is keep putting one foot in front of the other. I’ve enough experience of climbing real mountains to know that actually it...
by DavidFraser | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
I know you make decisions, but is it really you deciding? It’s a good idea to gather opinion from other people, yes. But… At the end of the day, we need to learn to live without the apparent security of our decisions being fully supported by what other people...
by DavidFraser | Jul 30, 2014 | Learning, Personal Mastery
It’s great to be resourceful in solving problems with what’s available. But that ability carries a hidden danger… We have the option of not dealing the with issue permanently. If you realise you’re improvising the same solution to the same...
by DavidFraser | Jun 12, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
A reminder of something simple and perhaps basic but really important, which has certainly helped me… To succeed, yes, we need a vision and a purpose and goals and priorities and all that. But when we’re stuck; when we’re down, we sometimes can’t do any of it....
by DavidFraser | Jun 4, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
We’re probably programmed to need evidence before we’ll believe something. That’s the “benefit” of a Western education. But is life really like that? For many things, especially where we have some influence over the outcome, we may be more likely to discover the...
