Setting up your Business Action Group

Here’s the second part of the Business Action Group article which sets out the basics for setting up your own group.
Last month we talked about getting together with other soloists to support and grow your business through a Business Action Group (BAG). If you’re thinking “This is for me” then here are the steps to [...]

Apparently, Audre Lorde said

Apparently, Audre Lorde said,
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Thus spake the woman who took the name, Gamba Adisa, which apparently means “she who makes her meaning clear”. And it was clear. Lorde educated many feminists [...]

Joy Retro Disco presents I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash

Uplifting tunes for your weekend.
 
 
Oh, it was tough to decide which version of this uplifting tune to go with this week, but I had to go with the original by the dude who actually wrote and performed the original hit, Johnny Nash. Nash had a number one hit with I Can See Clearly Now in [...]

No more trash: Sustainable design for trailer park tragics

Make way for the new eco sub-culture: Trailer park recyclables!
I love this.
I am such a sucker for caravans and mobile homes. There’s something about the economic use of space that makes me revere them as an artform. Really, how do they cram so much function into so little space?
Okay, usually, it comes at the expense [...]

Apparently, William McDonough said

Apparently, William McDonough said,
“Design is the first signal of human intention”
I like this quote from the renowned architect as I’m fascinated by design. Buildings, furniture, molecules, life: the patterns, interconnectivity, processes keep me amused for hours. But I wonder if design really is the first signal of human intention. 
If you look at the process of [...]

Does Fiji deserve Pacific pariah status?

Fiji Time – that wonderfully elastic concept which makes a mockery of Western schedule fetish – doesn’t apply to the country’s politics. Events there seem to run at warp speed.
On Thursday April 9, the Fiji Court of Appeal ruled that the 2006 coup that installed Commodore Frank Bainimarama as leader was illegal. The next day, [...]

Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session. Part 2: The Selling of Coaching

In Part 1 of this series on Rethinking the Complimentary Coaching Session, I wrote about being introduced to the Comp Session as part of my coach training and how, at that early stage, something just didn’t sit right for me. I felt uneasy about using techniques that increase a client’s pain to tip them over [...]

April 12 is Small Blog Appreciation Day

The blog that I can’t pronounce, TYWKIWDBI, is having a Small Blog Appreciation Day on 12 April as a way to say thanks to all the (usually) small blogs that have linked to him. 
What a great idea!
Linking is the bread n butter of blogging. It’s not only how you get new readers/visitors but also gives [...]

Apparently the Chinese proverb says

Apparently the Chinese proverb says,
One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
Let me be the bringer of the one joy.

Joy Retro Disco presents Shackles (Praise You) by Mary Mary

Uplifting tunes for your weekend

Take those shackles off my feet so I can dance.
Okay, I may not be about to praise “him” because I’m, like, an atheist, and as a feminist, I would have difficulty believing in a patriarchal all-loving, all-condemning god. But. 
I love this song because it taps into a joyful hope that is [...]