Category: Personal Development

Read my stars today so thanks to Jonathon Recamier for prompting this post. As always, Jonathon had oblique and cryptic references - this time, to leopards and caterpillars. It got me thinking. In the effort to 'develop' ourselves ought we to subscribe to the view that (a) a leopard cannot change its spots, or (b) a caterpillar turns into a butterfly Life is like that. Full of wondrous contradictions. So, how do we know if we are just simply are the way we are and the attempt to change is futile? Or, how do we know if we are capable of change and close to metamorphing into an even more brilliant creature? Life is full of possibilities. Only you can know when you are ready to handle self-initiated change. If…

A lot of people become confused. Lose their way. Get fatigued with all the struggling. End up doing nothing even though they had grand plans. Why is that? The Mad Hatter summed it up in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. "If you don't know where you're going it doesn't matter much how you get there". In other words go back to focus on where you were going, what you were trying to achieve and then the path becomes clearer.

Communication is the grease of life. If we fail to communicate, or communicate ineffectually, our relationships suffer, our quality drops and our results don't meet expectations. Yet we communicate every day in every way. We have more devices to communicate with then ever and these speed up the process. So, how come 'we' are notoriously lousy at it? Speed is one of the key issues. Emails and texts and phone calls are so quick and easy we often 'say' things we don't mean. No matter how many emoticons we use, email and text have no context or reference to interpret adequately the intent of the sender. And we're forever in a rush, at least those of us in the cities always seem to be. So we don't have time to…