Author: Jeremiah Josey
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Burqa Woman
An observation of roles of the masculine and the feminine – in a Middle East airport I’m sitting at Arrivals with my regulation Starbucks semi-daily black brew. No sugar. Grande. I’m waiting. All nationalities are arriving. It’s busy. I’m observing. Looking. Staring. A couple emerge. Business or married I can’t tell. Either way it’s not…
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How to Get and Assess Feedback from Your Team
A simple tool that provides years of guidance for workplace performance In a democratic workplace, one of the most important requirements is transparency on performance. In particular transparency on the performance of managers, business line leaders and other people where they supervise, support, look over other people. If you are suppressing your people, there is…
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Learning to walk again
And how to make sure you set the right priorities in your business I’ve read the works of Robert Kiyosaki lately, two of his latest best sellers “Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money” and “Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money“. Both books stimulated and…
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No need to be afraid of a tax on carbon
Mixing politics with real science can give real solutions I read this article about how Australia can become a leading nation on our planet. https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/no-need-to-be-afraid-of-a-tax-on-carbon-20100903-14tqh.html Love it! Before the Australian election climate change was relegated to a distant nowhere in the election work up of each major party. Now it’s topic to swing a government…
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How to Actively Create a Life
A simple guide for creating your life how you want to create it 1. Write it down 2. Focus on it Visualize it as if it already exists, as if it already has happened. Use what ever tricks are needed. Create a scrap book, a slide show presentation, affirmations, anything to have the image in…
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How to get a 1 hour suntan in 5 minutes
The reality of our world remains fragile and precarious I was sitting by the pool today (as I often do), thinking about stuff (as I often do)… I was thinking about a movie called Sunshine released in 2007. An excellent Si-Fi movie set 50 years into the future when the sun is dying. (Worth a…
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The Dark Side of Green
When the green movement has dark secrets I posted a comment here about the real costs of burning hydrocarbons. It was in response to discussion on subsidies on green energy technologies, global warming and everything in between. https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=62696&type=member&item=25411493&commentID=20660457&goback=.nmp_*1_*1_*1&report.success=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_20660457 @Brian and @Brennan love the way you think. Clear, clean, concise. Brennan you’d never hit below the…
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The Mediocrity of Australian Politics
Do you think anything will change? Think again Recent public movements in Australian politics reveal the truth behind the talking: National interest, getting things done, change for the good of everyone? These are not on the agenda. Personal interest, personal gain and tepid caution: these are what drives the upcoming Australian election. As pointed out…
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If it were easy
Simple steps to enjoy life If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Just pretend you don’t know how hard it is. Hold your ideas up to the light. Make a date to do something you’re scared of doing. Admire wildflowers. Sit under the stars or on the edge of the ocean. Spend time…
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The Abraham-Hicks Processes and the Emotional Set Point Ranges to apply them Over
A database of the Abraham tools for creation These tools are inherently valuable and require practice to perfect, yet are simple in their application. The Processes (in brackets is the Emotional Set Point range to apply the process to) 1. Rampage of Appreciation (1-5) 2. Magical Creation Box (1-5) 3. The Creation Workshop (1-5) 4.…
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Food, Inc. A review of the documentary – recommended
A revelation into something we take for granted with every mouthful What a great documentary. Not just because of the story (eat food in the USA? Yuck), but also because of the great positive, do something message at the end. Let’s start with that message: “You can vote to change the system… three times a…
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Fill Life with the Good Bits First: The Mayonnaise Jar
A story about how to fill your life with important stuff and not the small stuff When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24 hours in a day is not enough; remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some…
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When I Die by Colin Mackenzie
Prophetic words from a friend written only 9 days before his unexpected passing Be it known that,While mourning is fine if you want to,When I die, I would not want tears.A few good memories to be shared, that is all.I am definitely going to die.This is so certain thatit is not a matter of regret.If…
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Your time is limited…
Time is the only currency that cannot be renewed These words spoken prophetically by Steve Jobs on 2005 at a Stanford University speech inspire and remind us all to make it important and to make it last. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’…
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Great People – Dean Karmen
Inspiration arrives from innovation, including innovating how to engage with people You can learn about a guy called Dean Karmen from a book called Project Ginger: about how Dean made the Segway (and other neat inventions). It’s thanks to people like Dean Karmen that we get to experience marvellous miracle technology as common place after millions…
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EU and IMF will spend $40 billion to bail out Greece. What is your opinion on this issue?
From a Linkedin Discussion: All The Global Leaders in the European Developed Markets My comment: They are just extending the credit on their “credit card”, and using future tax income (from salaries) to pay for it. This drives the wrong habits – fixing inhuman balance sheets and ignoring the human element. It drives the ‘need’…
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Wisdom from Will Smith
A compilation of great quotes from the great actor and human being, Will Smith Greatness Exists in All of Us I know what I am, I know what I believe in, and that’s all I need to know. It can’t be that easy – Yes It Is! There is no Shortcut to Success Talent we…
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What is “business”
An easy 1-2-3 “how-to” for a successful business Once you have decided that you want to do business and you have what you think is a customer, then a business is 4 steps: 1) Find out what they want2) Go and get it3) Give it to them4) Make a profit from doing 1, 2 and…
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Jobs, Kevin Rudd & Taxes
How the merry-go-round of politics always has a payment window at the door I met Kevin Rudd once a couple of years ago before he was the Prime Minister of Australia. It was at a local restaurant in his electorate in Brisbane. He’s a sharp chap. Clean dress. Quick mind. Academic type. I like him. …
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Antibiotics – Short Term Thinking Kills A Long Term Future
Learn about how modern medicine kills millions of people because of short term thinking Medical topics are not something I usually blog about, but I liked this one because what has happened here is exactly what has happened in so much of our – human – endeavors, and it stems from short term thinking. In…
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