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If you have a large garden, especially one with an irregular shape you’ll be familiar with the dilemma of “how do you mow it?”. If you have a ride-on, you can’t do simple stripes, as the thing has to be manoeuvred. The challenge is to come up with a pattern that cuts all of the […][...] read more » Zen and the Art of lawn mowing

Yesterday roughly 70% of the Greek voters said “No!” to austerity (despite same same proportion still wishing to remain within the Europe!)  At the same time the French voters voted for Hollande and his anti-austerity platform.  So both sets of people want to get better, economically speaking, but refused to take their ‘medicine’.  This is […][...] read more » The Greeks & the French vote for Change… or did the turkeys just refuse to vote for Xmas?

I went to a talk yesterday by Pen Hadow, who rose to international fame when in 2003 he became the first person to trek solo, without resupply by third parties, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole – a feat which has not been repeated and thought comparable in difficulty to making the first ascent […][...] read more » An Arctic explorer’s lessons on Change

Easter was originally a pagan festival dedicated to the goddess variously named as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos.”  Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: “eastre.”  It was essentially a festival of fertility and renewal, hence the eggs and the very fecund bunnies!  The Christian church […][...] read more » The Easter Bee?

It has  been a week of ups and downs (“Yes… they still happen.”)  I guess that may not seem surprising, but what I found interesting is how my view of the same set of circumstances change completely according to my my outlook.  One day things seemed full of possibilities and one another those same doors […][...] read more » Alternate Viewpoints

This is a guest blog, authored by Leslie Allan which I thought very interesting:- Managing change in today’s organizations is not getting any easier. However, doing it well is the new imperative. How are organizations faring with moving their people and systems in new directions? IBM Global Business Services researched change management practices across the […][...] read more » IBM’s Making Change Work Study Gives Stark Warning

The Bridge Trilogy is made up of three books The Bridge to Tomorrow Across the Rainbow Bridge, The Bridge of Air     These books were written as a ‘channelled’ book, but I make no real claims about this and would sooner as the reader to make up their own mind. See if this helps […][...] read more » BOOKS

I had always felt that we, the great British public, were pretty sick of both politics and politicians, and was not at all surprised by the result, which for me was a pronouncement of “We don’t like/ trust any of you!”  And today we stand on a brand new shore, the first peacetime coalition government […][...] read more » General Election – Change Lesson no3 – All Change!

I confess to being one of the 30% who hasn’t decided; I think Labour has shown a lack of answers and leadership going into the campaign, I don’t think the Tories are up to it, and the  LibDems just are never going to be a serious alternative. I find myself thinking a ”A plague on […][...] read more » General Election – Change Lessons

Richard Wiseman, in his book “The Luck Factor” says that we can learn to be lucky. There are three easy techniques that can help to maximise good fortune: Unlucky people often fail to follow their intuition when making a choice, whereas lucky people tend to respect hunches. Lucky people are interested in how they both […][...] read more » You can learn to be luck