No matter how old you get, you still need role models to look up to. Luckily growing and evolving never stops. As long as we don’t get seduced into wanting to be them rather than be like them. We choose our friends because they have the qualities and attributes we admire and would like to [...]
Archive for the ‘More or Less?’ Category
More me and less somebody else
Posted in More or Less? on August 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
More courageous, less fearful
Posted in More or Less? on August 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If you believe we live at choice then it is not so much our innate personality but our determination that makes us more courageous and less fearful. Being courageous is less about climbing mountains and getting motorcycle licenses and singing in front of hundreds of people, and more abut buying sweets at the snack bar [...]
More focused, less busy
Posted in More or Less? on August 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Are you the kind of person who says ‘Yes’ before the question leaves the asker’s mouth? Do you commit to every vaguely interesting sounding project, trip, meeting, job, volunteer position, sports team, exercise group, book club, fridge-magnet collecting group and get-together on offer? And then when it is time to turn up ask yourself – [...]
More accepting, less tolerant
Posted in More or Less? on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
That ’tolerance’ word really pushes my buttons and it has rung in my ears since I recalled it in an an earlier article this week. So much so, that I wanted to look a little more closely at it with regard to ‘cultural tolerance’, and I am glad I did… My first ever training in cultural [...]
More relaxed and less stressed
Posted in More or Less? on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My kids have a very cute saying which they apply to others (never themselves of course). Being a ‘Try Hard’ applies to the person, who puts far too much obvious energy into an activity which appears to have the sole purpose of impressing others. Yes, they have called me that many times… And as a recovering perfectionist, [...]
More interested, less interesting
Posted in More or Less? on August 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This was right up there with some of the best advice I ever got… from none other than my own coach. Sure I had heard and understood the message a long time before that, yet sometimes, it is just the way something is said that really brings home the true meaning. I vividly recall one [...]
More or less…
Posted in More or Less? on August 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This category came to me as I sped along the highway on the back of a friend’s motorcycle yesterday on the way to the Houston Music Awards band performances in 100 degree heat. It spontaneously occurred to me that my international experiences have changed me – in fact changed me fundamentally which I have always [...]
