I was chatting to our solar panel installer yesterday and got on to the subject of politics. He expressed very right wing opinions including a comment "...we should bring back Hitler he got things done!" I explained how I have worked with many people three generations on, that are still affected by the deeds carried [...]
The theme of the week this week has been crying. A male client who described himself as tough, and said "tough men don't cry this is not me I am a tough man!" A lady who said "the tears just come, I have no control over them." She described herself as crying like a child. [...]
Had a beautiful dialogue with a new client in Eastern Europe this morning. During our conversation, he talked a lot about not knowing what he wanted. I remember many years ago saying the same or similar thing, but I notice I don't do it so much now. Some of my reasons for changing were that [...]
Many years ago as a teenager I attended a week long course along with 40 other young ladies on the different facets of engineering at Birmingham university. The course was coordinated and run by a truly inspiring lady called Lucy, she was probably in her mid to late 40's and had frizzy greying shoulder length [...]
Persistence...My daughter was telling me about a now very successful published author that came to her school. He had approached 132 publishers before he got his first book published, he even held a party after having approached 100 to celebrate that was 100 less publishers to approach. His persistence paid, he believed in his ability, [...]
