For a little while this afternoon I watched one sports team out-sporting another sports team on TV and after one especially comedic mistake the cameras turned to the only place they should after something klutzy is acted out – the coaches box. The poor guy didn’t so much have his head in his hands as […]
I really should employ Mick, the life-long plumber, as a trainer. Because, without intending to, he gives great little sermons. Hot on the heels of his ‘all it took was 10 more minutes on a 4-hour job’ talk which inspired this article, he casually dropped another beauty yesterday. The back story here, is that I […]
I was terrified to go to university. Having nobody in the immediate family who’d been before, there was no reference for me. So my 17-year-old imagination ran away with itself as I pictured lectures with a cranky professor filling a giant blackboard with incomprehensible hieroglyphics and me not having a clue. The anxiety lasted until […]
‘The secret to winning a gun fight? Move slowly, fast.’ This quote has been attributed to Wild West lawman Pat Garret and I’ve used it as a throwaway line in plenty of Strong Spine sessions to make the point that ‘if he didn’t feel like he had to rush, then what excuse have we got?’ […]
Ever talked to someone who sells cars about the patterns of human behaviour? ‘So, you see, you’ve got your four basic types of customer. You’ve got your giraffe, your bear, your sheep, and your lion. Lions are the hardest…’ I know, I know – we are all special and unique little snowflakes too. But in some […]
In the spare 5 minutes a day that a café owner gets to sit down; we were joined by a bloke in Yarraville one day. He launched straight into a whinge about his chef, shaking his head in weary wonder. ‘It was Anzac day last week right? And do you think this peanut remembered to order […]
