by DavidFraser | Apr 23, 2012 | Current Affairs, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Relationship Skills
(Occasioned by a certain politician failing to see the funny side of the routine humor dispensed on its cover by a well-known current affairs magazine.) What do we do when someone attempts a joke at our expense? Fight back or just shrug it off? The choice we make says...
by DavidFraser | Apr 18, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery
If you’re anything like me, your first reaction to the question might be ”Of course I solve a problem when I can.” But do you? Do you always make the choice to deal with an issue when you have the means to? Or do you sometimes leave the problem because actually it’s...
by DavidFraser | Apr 11, 2012 | Change, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
We all have power to achieve things or to be a certain way, possibly more than we’re comfortable admitting. As Marianne Williamson said, “it’s not our darkness but our light that most frightens us.” This is quite a different thing from “power over” other...
by DavidFraser | Apr 10, 2012 | Change, Communication, Leadership, Learning, Organizational Learning, People Magic, Personal Mastery, Wisdom
Progress on anything challenging typically needs a balance of head and heart perspectives; some emotional intelligence alongside the logic and rationale of the numbers and the processes. Neither on their own will be sufficient. But where to start? Where to meet the...
by DavidFraser | Apr 9, 2012 | Change, Energy, Leadership, Personal Mastery
Forgiving others’ perceived wrongs is such a freeing thing to do, both for them and for us. History shows that those that get the best results over time act as if other people are doing their best, even if they don’t seem to be doing as well as they could. There is a...
