Business Action Groups: Your success is in the BAG

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This article has a special place in my heart. It was the first to get published at Flying Solo in 2006 which lead to google rankings and traffic for the WLD website.  For me, it’s a reminder that, even when writing [...]

Oh. My. God. I Love Noosa.

Caro and I had our 14th anniversary yesterday and decided to celebrate by doing what we do best: Nothing.
But not just regular old Nothing. We chose Nothing in a Beautiful Place. And not just regular old Nothing in a Beautiful Place, but Nothing in a Beautiful Place on a Glorious Day.
Yep, we slothed out in [...]

Joy Retro Disco presents H.A.P.P.Y. Radio by Edwin Starr

Uplifting tunes for your weekend!

Soul singer Edwin Starr might be more well-known for his 1970 classic, War (What is it good for), but it’s this little 1979 stomper that I love.
I’m not sure what it is about this tune but it has been well and truly stuck in my head all week. It’s infectious and [...]

Apparently, Deepak Chopra said

Apparently, Deepak Chopra said,
“We have gotten into the habit of spending money we haven’t earned, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people that we don’t like. So get rid of that habit.”
 
Habits have been on my mind lately, so when I happened upon Chopra’s quote after writing the post about habits earlier in the week, [...]

Is Torture Ever Okay?

Torture: Ticking time bombs and slippery slopes
A Talk by Dr John Janzekovic
Embiggen Books, Noosaville, 25 March 2009

We’re not all recession-immune luvvies thinking about nothing more taxing than our next Restylene appointment in Noosa, you know.
Last night, about 30 thoughtful and concerned folk of all ages got together at  Embiggen Books in Noosaville to hear Sunshine Coast [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session. Part 1: Feel the Pain

And here is where it all changed for me. The instructor responded by introducing us to the “Kiss. Tell. Hurt.” approach, the first of many ill-advised torture devices of coaching that I’ve come across over the years.

Debunking the myth of 21 Days to a New Habit

Have you heard the one about how you need to do something for 21 days before it becomes a habit?
It’s a myth.
There is no research that has found such a thing. I’ve scoured the psych literature and the internet looking for the source of this urban self-help myth and couldn’t locate any studies that provided [...]

Apparently, William James said

Apparently, William James said, “A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows”.
Wow. The father of psychology has neatly summed up how I feel about Twitter at the moment. I resisted it for so long, thought it was an utter waste of time and [...]

Make Room! Make Room! for the classic novel of dystopian future

What an achievement this novel is! I can really smell and feel the sweat of millions of jostling bodies, the despair at being turned away empty-handed from the communal water tap, and even the triumph of the character who spies a nice, juicy, edible…rat!

Callaghan wows audiences as nine-year-old boy

Congratulations to Stace Callaghan who has been receiving rave reviews for her performance as a nine-year-old boy in LaBoite’s latest production, The White Earth. (Yes, the award-winning Andrew McGahan novel.)  Onya Stace. You’re a legend.
The White Earth runs until 21 March 2009 at Brisbane’s LaBoite.