A couple of weeks ago we went to see a temporary exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral. It was a collection of Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter. I was really impressed with the collection of drawings and watercolours by Burne-Jones together with some of the paintings for which … Read more
Sometimes beauty is all about light and the fleeting moment. Photo taken across the River Mersey towards Cammell Laird Ship Yard.
One of the key principles of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is that we can learn a lot by looking at how other people who are highly effective function and extracting from that study ideas which we can implement ourselves. This is a really helpful practise. But it can be difficult to do when we are … Read more
‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.’ – Marcel Proust
Carl Henry has worked for a few years now in Research & Development in the NHS in England. I first met him a few years ago at a conference in Manchester. We chatted over the morning coffee and the conversation turned to what we had been doing the previous weekend. It was a very snowy … Read more
I haven’t written about music for a while, so thought that should be the theme today. Especially after a weekend of Glastonbury wall-to-wall on the TV, radio etc. There was an interesting piece in the weekend Independent by David Hepworth about Glastonbury. He describes it as “merely a version of historical re-enactment”. That’s probably why … Read more
A few years ago I read an inspirational book by Michael Gelb called “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci“. It’s an amazing book to prompt different thinking and increase your powers of creativity. The book came to mind last week as I was thinking through some ideas in the day job. I want to … Read more
Yesterday I was reading through some study notes I made back in 1998. I wrote with great excitement about the fact that I was going to be able to access the internet from home, not just in the office. It was a big deal. And now, 15 years later, the internet is on the TV, … Read more
I have just ordered the latest work by Richard Skelton. Richard lives in Cumbria and runs a press with his partner Autumn Richardson called Corbel Stone Press. They produce finely printed collections of poetry and prose as well as CDs and downloads of Richard’s music. The music is ambient, gentle washes of sound that build … Read more
Seth’s Blog: Association. According to Seth Godin, we are who we associate with. Those that we spend time with create the changes in the way that we are. I would just add that we are also who we read, what we watch and what we listen to.