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…No chance

Posted by Benjamin in Wednesday, June 6th 2007   
Topics: PushingToTheFront, doing, leadership, mission    
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My notes from Chapter 2 of Orison Swett Marden’s brilliant “Pushing to the front” - “The Boys with no chance”.
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and [...]

Are you having a 007 year?

Posted by Benjamin in Tuesday, March 20th 2007   
Topics: leadership, mission, personal development    
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Here we are, almost quarter of the way through the year. Is it a Bond-style 007 year? it is 2007 after all! Is there adventure? How is the mission going? Making progress on goals?

Chasing Mice and Eating Elephants

Posted by Benjamin in Wednesday, February 14th 2007   
Topics: ThinkingRock, doing, mission, productivity    
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Following on from the discussion about planned abandonment, there was an interesting post over on Ron Martoia’s velocityculture blog, where he talked about hunting elephants rather than mice, with the follow on comment by Ron:
“…focused on and how do you align time, energy, creativity and any other resource to the accomplishing of that mission. [...]

Ready. Aim. Focus. What’s the point?

Posted by Benjamin in Thursday, February 8th 2007   
Topics: doing, focus, mission, productivity, thinking    
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What is the value of focus?
Why have a mission?
Should you set goals for yourself?

I’ll warn you now, I  this is a long one, but you’ll get something good out of it I am sure!
In the beginning
At the start of my career I was trained as a teacher, a domain where the idea of aims and [...]