The Contraction and The Haka'ring Moari

You're relaxed it’s early morning and you’re shlumping bleary eyed down your apartment passage, coffee in hand when the beyond incomprehensible happens. Something resembling a half naked heavily tattooed Maori dude doing the Haka LEAPS OUT in front of you ... and yells AAARGGG ... veins throbbing, tongue extended and eyes bulging.

When Is The Issue Mindset And When Is It ... Something Else? Pt1

A friend of mine who also happens to be a successful small business owner and independent professional, asked me this intriguing question. [Link to part 2]

Question:
When is the issue mindset and when is it … something else? What else could it be if I’m smart and talented?

My Answer:
It’s always mindset :)

So the question may then be better phrased - Besides mindset what else could the issue be?

Think, Think, Think'ing, Pooh Bear Style

With all due respect to the whole ‘Be Here Now’ New Age movement, the solution to your problems and the realisation of your vision does not lie in ‘not thinking’, I mean that’s just asinine, it lies in thinking. As weird as it may seem, you unintentionally thought yourself into the problem, you need to intentionally think yourself out of the problem.

The Smuck Was Starkers

Are you aware that Buddha has a birthday, and that his birthday was yesterday. Nothing significant in this except that over here we all had a long weekend ... again.

I know Hong Kong is crazy busy and people work hard, I’m just not exactly sure of when they work, because between all the secular and religious holidays, of which we celebrate both Christian and Chinese, my girls seem to spend more time at home than at school.

Which of course gets me to asking, whether we send our children to school to learn, or just to get them out our hair - how’s that for projecting.

A NEW Model Of Business Just Sounds Silly

Here’s the thing, what would a new (future?) model of business look like, what distinguishes a new model from an old model, do we really need one and why, what would be the consequences of not transitioning to a new model and if a new model is necessary what is required to transition from one to the other?

But here’s a good place to start - What is meant by a model [of business] and what does it have to do with the average person, you and I, just doing our thing?