Gratitude is Key to Reaching Your Potential
Gratitude and being thankful fill my head with thoughts to counteract the negativity that can so easily move in and take over. As it is holiday time, and my residence in The Blue Mountains in Western Sydney, Australia is surrounded by the worst bush fires in a...
What the Wealthy Know About Economic Recovery
The wealthy know every economic downturn or recession “recovers” when people decide the risks of loss are not a concern anymore. It's just that they decide to spend when everyone else is hunkered down in fear not spending. The wealthy, the contrarians, know recovery...
On Civility
Several years ago, I read The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Stanford Professor Robert Sutton. At the time, I was President of Monks' Bread, an Upstate, New York baking company...
Peak of Potential Health
Health potential. If we are to reach our peak potential by becoming all we are capable of, managing our health is key. In mid-life, I have become acutely aware that having a better, longer life is only achieved if we have more health and happiness, and less sickness...
An Overview of The Chinese Threat to Australia and America
FIVE DOMAINS ON MILITARY OPERATIONS AND THE CHINESE THREAT TO AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA As a resident of Australia, my interest in foreign policy and strategy quickly turned to understanding the Australian air-sea gap strategy, and the Chinese threat when I moved here in...
Being Human Again in the Age of Machines
As technology grows in the world, humans are being restored to being human. Doing, Knowing, and Being The Doing Economy is rapidly being replaced by robotics and machines. The Knowing Economy is transitioning to artificial intelligence and neural SaaS network...
Bravery and Your Potential
To continue climbing toward the peak of your potential, and become all you are capable of becoming, you must grow to be brave and learn how to write your own life narrative. To become brave, we cannot look for someone to do for us what we need to do for ourselves....
The Peak of Potential Explained
Summary: In this episode, learn what The Peak of Potential is. Many people come to a place in life where they move beyond struggling to have the basic physical needs in life such as breathing, food, drink, sleep, and sex. People begin to want to know how to be good,...
Getting Things Out In The Open: Teams and the Johari Window
On the last podcast, I talked about the Johari Window and how companies can get things out in the open to improve results. This team building tool is a self-disclosure/feedback/self awareness builder. In any group or organisation, self awareness and effectiveness...
Getting Things Out in The Open At Work
Summary: In episode we discuss the Johari Window team builder tool. As we "get things out in the open" at work by disclosing information about our feelings, experience, views, motivation, and experience, teams realise their potential more and more. Are you afraid to...