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Manyana

One thing of that you come to realise as you go through life is that there is this belief that there is always ‘manyana’, tomorrow. This is seen most prominently in procrastinators and the levels at which this appears varies in the individual. The reality is that putting something off until tomorrow invariably ends up [...]

I, like many of the people that I associate with, strive to deliver good service to our clients. Indeed my basic hiring criteria when taking staff on is they must have the right attitude and personality, everything else can be taught. That may seem a little out there but I don’t think so as I [...]

Downtime is good!

In the world of IT downtime is bad. It is a term that is used to describe the amount of time that an IT system, be it a sever or workstation, is in a non- functioning state which in turn causes a user or users to not be able to work in a constructive fashion. [...]

Just one minute

As a business owner you have one of the greatest gifts there is; that is you are in control of your own time. I recall when I first left my last job and started JPT Solutions I would struggle immensely to take an afternoon off as it just felt so alien, I just felt I [...]

One thing that you learn in life is that no two people will see or hear the same thing and that really fascinates me. It all comes down to perception and emotional intelligence, in my humble opinion. The fact is that people see things from very different perspectives in life based on the life that [...]

I have been a little quiet of late due to some heavy work commitments which have been keeping me very busy. This is something I feel a little guilty for as it has meant that I have had to neglect some of my social media and blogging activities which are some of the things that [...]

Outside it is really foggy and has been throughout today and yesterday, so much so that the MetOffice has described it as ‘Dense Fog’. Quite apt really as that’s the way I have been feeling for the last couple of weeks. We went away earlier this month for some well earned R & R and [...]

Motivation

What get’s you going in the morning? This morning I was up at a little after 6am and got myself ready to go out running. When I got downstairs and looked out of the front window the ground was thick with frost, I knew this before I got downstairs but this was proof. So I [...]

Whenever I write anything on this blog I try to write as both the teacher and the pupil, why? The fact is that we are all both teachers and pupils deep down and this is a fundamental feature of humans. We have a deep need to learn things and a natural sense of curiosity. While [...]

This is just a quick post that came to me this morning as I was getting up, “What gets you going?”. I envy people who find it easy to get up early in the morning as this is always something I struggle with, don’t get me wrong I always wake by 7.30am which some would [...]

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