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Lucinda and I had about finished our catch-up when she turned to me and said: “Thanks for the meeting, Charlie, it was good to share some time. You know, when I first came to the business forum I didn’t think you liked me.” I laughed the statement off as we prepared to leave the coffee… Read more
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I picked up the pen to jot down a note to myself, instead of the original prompt I wrote: ‘No, I’m not doing this …’ It was a message from my subliminal self saying it was time for something different. The idea of doing the same thing for the same result, helping others, wasn’t appealing,… Read more
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text reproduced from The Marginalian by Maria Popova, a regular contribution from the thought leader and running entirely through then kindness of donations from others. thank you. Read more
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Sue and I sat down at the kitchen table to sample the latest cake. Wonderful! I felt I must be getting on in years if I’m feeling excited about yet another appointment with cake? Yet, that’s me, I’m in my happy place! Anyway, I was about to sink my teeth into a rather generous slice… Read more
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I was talking with a friend of mine recently during one of our morning meetings. Dennis is a successful dealer of antiques. A senior guy who confesses he should have retired ‘years ago.’ ‘Then why don’t you?’ I asked. (Knowing the answer didn’t stop me asking anyway …) The object of derision for Dennis was… Read more
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Del and I had met for a one to one. We were discussing the illustrations for a forthcoming booklet, amongst other things. The subject we spent time on had the common interest of networking. How the path to tangible results varies from person to person, industry to industry. The networking process usually offers time of… Read more
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Hello Bill, are you OK for our catch-up next week? Can we leave the catch up until after August, Charlie? Most of us have had to make adjustments this time of the year. For me, August always seems like the world and his P.A. are on, or planning a holiday. Everyone but me …( just… Read more
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Most of you know that I love my networking. It’s not the fact that I have found a modicum of success through direct business either. All my contacts know precisely what I’m good at although the fact is … not everyone is in the marketplace for my particular services, all of the time. This is… Read more
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Maria Popova and Hermann Hesse ponder how to be more alive. Read that full story here: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/change-wonder?e=73733b688f Read more
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(an excerpt from a forthcoming book of the same name by Kevin John Ragnarsson Wilson Lee Clarke) Chapter 1 It was a quiet, cool, and beautifully crisp Irish lakeside morning as I busied myself tending to the deck of a recently moored motor launch, returned early after an overnight fishing expedition. I was happily lost… Read more
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