Category Archives: Personal development
The One Thing That Changes Everything: TRUST
“Like father like son.” And I like them both, both Stephen R Covey who wrote Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and his son Stephen M R Covey who has brought out a blockbuster of analysis, subtitled The One Thing That Changes Everything. Stephen has analysed what enables human beings to flourish in relationship with each other. He has not only come up with the core value of TRUST but also identified the impact of trust as a tax or a dividend. The main title of the book is The SPEED Of TRUST.
Covey asks us to list who we trust. And who trusts us? He then Read More...
Comfort Zones, Stretch Zones and Wilderness Skills
Expanding our comfort zone
Many things make us feel good about ourselves: knowing we have done a good job or been helpful to someone or when we are praised for what we’ve done. We feel an inner peace and live within a space that can be called a comfort zone. Each person’s comfort zone will have a unique size and shape. We can extend our comfort zone by experimenting with new behaviours and different ways of relating to other people. I call this going into the stretch zone.
The stretch zone is still pretty familiar to us. We remain in familiar surroundings, with Read More...
The Leapfrog Principle Redefined
What is leapfrogging?
According to John Moravec of Education Futures LLC “Leapfrogging means to jump over obstacles to achieve goals. It means to get ahead of the competition or the present state of the art through innovative, time-and-cost saving means.” www.educationfuturtes.com The power of leapfrogging is that we are not trying to catch up, or keep up, but to overtake. We shift from trying to learn from the one in front, to imagining and then creating a new reality for ourselves. Nations can leapfrog. Corporations can leapfrog. And individuals can leapfrog Read More...