Future Thinking is a phrase I coined years ago. I came up with the phrase when I simply got fed up with people talking ‘positive’. I wanted something more meaningful than positive. ‘Being positive’ is often seen as a lame, limp and shallow phrase. I think this is because people who are positive in the ‘being [...]
My inner belief I’ve built up a core belief inside me over the years. Most of it over the last 12-18 months but nevertheless a belief that allows me to be strong despite any criticisms or ‘flaming arrows’. It is this belief that helps me be strong in the face of adversity or strong when [...]
I start each day drinking coffee looking out over Plymouth’s historic Hoe – All weathers! I’m self-employed where most of my work comes from property management in the student market of Plymouth. I still do quite a bit of work in the IT and web fields (building websites and doing IT work for businessmen involved in [...]
Why do good things keep happening to me? Not a question people usually submit to their friends down the pub or over lunch with work mates is it? No, more likely we hear statements like “Why does all this bad stuff happen to me?!!”. This often follows a diatribe of troubles and things ‘happening to’ [...]
I don’t even know if Creative Capitalism is an already known phrase but here is my idea of how business people and entrepreneurs everywhere can grow their business – harmoniously. Harmoniously? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we could grow our personal wealth and business without taking business from another? “Uh, yes Jonathan, but that’s a dream [...]
Real Power There is real power in what we say. What we say, has an astonishing and sometimes sad affect on our and others’ lives. By the way, when I talk about the power of what we say, this also includes what we say in writing (such as in text messages, emails, comments and messages [...]
Or so some say…. Is it luck that allows some people to get on, find the right job, get that promotion (and so on) before anyone else or where things seem to always go right for them? I don’t think so. First, a short story One of the greatest golfers there has ever been is [...]
A question Did I get you started reading this article? I’m sure if we did a vote on it, most people would say ‘Yes, I want happiness in my life and yes being happy would make my life perfect’ (or something like that). What do you think? Is happiness the be all and end all? [...]
Huh? Come on, think about it! ….I’m waiting…. Thought about it? Here it is again: “The more I know, the less I seem to know” “Jonathan”, I hear you say, “what on earth on you on about?” Well, as you know many of my blog posts are about self improvement, personalities, life, the universe and [...]
Child Of Our Time Child Of Our Time and TV programs like it will often show us interesting ways to analyse our psyche. Coming up with tests and questionnaires which will then show us that we are ‘Extravert’ or ‘Agreeable’ or that women get more stressed than men or some other categorisation of our personality. [...]