Trouble with taking action, is… I’ve been doing too many other things to be able to sit down and blog. Sorry for the full week without a peep. Here’s a wee something, harking back to previous diatribes and musings about motivational speakers… (Warning: might get a bit cynical).
Browsing the books and blogs of motivational speakers [...]
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Tag Archive: Motivation
Is Cynicism Ever Healthy?
Being Bold: A Case Study
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” Goethe.
Shortly after arriving in Japan, I became good friends with an American guy who’d also come to Japan to teach English. As the weeks passed, he found himself chronically underemployed and his efforts to do his job, [...]
Do ‘Motivational Speakers’ Motivate You?
Last year, things were not too good at work. Morale was exceptionally low, staff shortages were chronic, the new pay deal was felt to be a slap in the face. (This, of course, was well before the whole credit crunch/global recession had really taken hold, you wanna see the place now…).
So the management paid for [...]
