by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
Monday morning; wake up have breakfast. Get in car. Go to work. Look up and see the Sky Tower. Meet with people and in places I know. Wednesday morning, wake up have breakfast, but where is the breakfast I know? Navigate the subway. Look up and see the Empire State...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
To start of this column I wanted a nice positive quote about ‘trust’. Jumping on Google I thought this would be easy, that the perfect quote would pop of the screen, instead I scrolled, and I scrolled, and I scrolled through quotes that YES were about...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
How was your… I think you would like… I just wanted to write a short message to say… Communication whether it be through the words we say or emotions we display is one of the the most important things for optimising our network. Be it online on...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
“There is life how it is and life how we think it should be, the more we cling to the latter the more we struggle” – Andy Puddicombe. The other day I was at an event talking with a man for whom I had respect for and whom I believed had respect for...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
Ka Mate Ka Mate, Ka ora Ka ora it was these words that raced around my mind as All Black after All Black (our national sporting legends) filtered into the lounge at Auckland International Airport, they were departing for Argentina, mum and I were off to New York City....
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
When life throws us a curveball there are three things I have found that will serve us well; humour, strength and balance. Recently I was speaking at the MAS (Medical Assurance Society) Talks in Dunedin. The audience was medical professionals from diverse fields of...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
Life is one awesome journey and on it we can come across people who question why they do what they do. Many of these people have the potential to be or are already leaders, trail blazers and there's a reason they find themselves in this place, it's because...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
As a speaker with Cerebral Palsy I regularly go to speak in schools and get asked "how did you respond to bullies when you were at school?” I feel useless that I can't answer it to the degree that one may expect, that I don’t have a black and...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
Last year a good friend of mine brought me a jigsaw puzzle with the words Dream Big surrounded by illustrations of the sorts of dreams people have. The completed image looked totally awesome but as a jigsaw I thought to myself what the heck! One, it was a thousand...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorised
The other day I’m in my office that over looks a whole lot of empty land plots. I see this car pull up and a couple get out with their dog because it’s the perfect place for their dog to play catch with a ball, for the dog its game time, it’s wagging...
