Category: Personal
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Forget Setting Goals. Make better small decisions
Forget setting goals. Just make better small decisions. And trust you will get where you’re meant to be.
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Starting out in uncertain times
What a year 2020 has started out, and promises to be a rough ride. For me personally it represents setting out on new adventures, I’m building something with my good friend Sergio. In starting Five30am, Sergio and I see it as a vehicle that enables us to do meaningful work. For us this means helping people…
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News from the West Coast
San Francisco – I love this city, it’s so great to be back! I arrived towards the end of last week and just about shaking off the jetlag. I have already become good friends with Karl the Fog, and managed to catch my NY Mets lose out again to the SF Giants over the weekend.…
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Getting hands-on with online education – A Crash Course on Creativity
I’ve been following the developments in the online education space with increasing interest over the last year or so, with the available options and choice growing seemingly by the day. The likes of Coursera, Venture Lab, and Udacity now have an impressive selection of courses, across the full range of the sciences, technology, arts and…
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Early reflections on my StrengthsFinder Top 5 Strengths
I have been finding an odd moment here and there to delve deeper into what my My Top 5 Strengths mean and what lies behind them. Each of the 34 StrengthsFinder strength “themes” has a shared description, however the “Strengths Insight and Action-Planning Guide” provides a personalised take on your talents, and some questions to…
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My Top 5 Strengths – StrengthsFinder 2.0
Photo Credit: Untitled by Brittany G Thanks to some recent conversations at work, I was pointed towards Tom Rath‘s bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0, which proposes a focus on our natural talents to identify our true strengths. My copy turned up last night, and I have just completed the online assessment, so here, hot off the press…