25 ways to turbocharge your brain power Improve your vocabulary. Take a different route home from work, regularly. Do crosswords, solve puzzles and brainteasers. Become comfortable with ambiguity. Reverse your assumptions. Look further than the first, correct answer. Be curious. Have your own mental sanctuary. Debate (not argue) and defend your position on matters, intellectually. [...]
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Mix and match ideas to serve your clients
Creativity choked? Mix and match ideas to serve your clients. “The time has come,” the walrus said, “to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages & kings.” In the 4th Millennium BC, hard bronze was invented in Susa (Iran) by mixing soft copper with small amounts of an [...]
How can we attract immigrants like Mia Love’s parents?
I’d be pleased to see people like Mia Love running for election here in Australia rather than Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Peter Slipper. And instead of continuing to allow illegal immigrants (pretending to be asylum seekers) into our country, our immigration officials could look to have our immigration quota filled by people like Mia Love’s parents. Take [...]
It’s never too late to trust yourself
It’s never too late to trust yourself to confidently head in the direction of your dreams. Never. It matters not why you’ve waited until now. It matters not that you may have got it wrong previously. It matters not that you’ve never been lucky when less others seem to have been over-rewarded for under-performing. It’s [...]
Who should you have on your team?
When you decide that you need another person on your team; is it because you need another body? Is it because you need another process worker? Another cog in the wheel or as Pink Floyd sang, “Another brick in the wall”? If that is what you want, then identify people who aren’t really motivated, have [...]
Don’t believe everything you hear
Self-proclaimed business experts and gurus love to hear the sound of their own voice, almost as much as they love you listening to their voice. The problem is, many self-proclaimed business experts get it wrong. You need to discriminate about who’s opinion you accept. After all, it’s your business at risk. Challenge conventional and limited [...]
For me it’s Australia Day and I’m proud
Today is Australia Day. I don’t care to get caught in the ridiculous nonsense of “Invasion Day”. I don’t care for that researcher who says that flying the Australian flag on your vehicle is racist. I don’t care to change the Australian Constitution. I don’t care to accept the illegal immigrants. Today is Australia Day. [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.99: Victory by helping others to win
When my daughter was two and she wanted something, she wanted it immediately. And, when she got it, it was a victory, she won. As we mature we see a win as a victory over somebody or something else. I won the tennis match at the expense of somebody else who lost to me. I [...]
It’s not in the giving but the imagination
They say the gift is in the giving but after watching the opening of so many presents yesterday it became apparent to me that the power of the gift is in the imagination of the recipient. Children were using the same presents in totally different ways to each other to entertain and enthral. Picasso said [...]
Merry Christmas from Ric Willmot
Wishing you a very merry Christmas. May you and your loved ones remain safe and have a splendid time sharing joy, happiness and goodwill. The pleasures of Christmas are very much in the giving. Give as much as you can: your time, attention, patience, love and understanding. Give to charities, either in money, or in [...]
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