I was awarded £580 in compensation for damages that occurred when one of my motorbikes was stolen last year. One of the people responsible was caught, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay compensation to both me and the Met Police. Approximately 9 months on from that date, I’ve been repaid a total of £68.02. […]
The latest section of the Happiness Advantage talks about taking responsibility for things that happen in your life (other posts on topic). By taking responsibility, you give yourself the option of being able to control the outcome of events. If you think that everything in life is outwith your control, then it matters little what […]
I don’t like to think of myself as an entrepreneur. I don’t really like the term. For me it has connotations of being a hot-shot, someone who thinks they can do anything, someone who takes a lot of other people’s money and burns it on an idea that ends up dead in the water. It’s common […]
One of my goals this year is to spend some time learning about happiness and wealth. Although often seen as contradictory, I think of wealth not purely in monetary terms, but in the availability of all good things in life. I’m reading The Happiness Advantage (thoroughly recommended) and it highlights an easy way of changing […]
Reading books about management and teamwork, it’s fairly common to find techniques such as ‘yes, and…’. The purpose is to encourage participation in group discussions by using phrases which are positive, rather than negative. For example, if someone raises an idea and you reply with “no, but” then they feel less inclined to participate in […]
This morning, while listening to Radio 4 (I know, see this short) I started a train of thought about how numbers are thrown around in the media, and how people possibly don’t fully appreciate what they mean. People talk about something costing £56 million, £15 billion or the EU bailout fund which runs into trillions. When […]
This post begins as a bit of a rant about Yahoo!, but there is a relatively serious (though probably widely discussed) point that comes out of it. I recently had some trouble logging into my Yahoo! account. I was entering the correct username and password, but it rejected it saying one of the pieces of […]
I reckon it might go something like this: 1. You’re born, you know nothing 2. You learn a little, and think you know everything 3. You realise you don’t know everything, so try to learn everything 4. You realise you can’t learn everything, so try to learn everything about something 5. You realise you can’t […]
As we gracefully move into a new decade, I’ve been reading a number of articles looking back over the last 10 years and how things have changed over that time. Information technology and how we use it has truly transformed peoples lives over the last 10 years. The widespread adoption of the PC, broadband internet […]
I recently listed my iPod on eBay and it sold for a tasty £205. I was a little surprised that it went for so much, but was definitely happy about it. I started to get suspicious when i got an invoice request from the buyer with the following message: Dear Seller, Am happy to be […]
