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The Philosophy of Success
What does success mean to you?
We live in a culture that is pretty much obsessed with success, and there’s a lot of advice on how to be successful – how to set the parameters of success and how to model the behaviours of successful people.
John Turner, philosopher and visiting Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire Business School led a discussion on The Philosophy of Success
Phil Begnett | Web Video Producer filmed and produced two short videos taken from the nights excellent seminar.
As the evening was very “Interactive” with the audience, the video had to be shot from the “side” of the stage ….
Funky Philosophy – Activity based Philosophy
Deep Networking – The antidote for speed networking!
This post is related to a previous post “What does Success Mean to You?” and to a lively discussion on LinkedIn with 71 comments! http://lnkd.in/Htuywx If you’d like to join in, leave your comments here or on the LinkedIn discussion!
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Clive Gott RIP
I heard today that Clive Gott died suddenly last night of a heart attack.
I’m stunned that such a larger than life man has just gone from our lives.
Clive was instrumental in me starting The Inspired Group (although he would always deny it) and his influence over the last six years has been at the root of what it has become.
I and thousands of other people whose lives he touched will miss him a lot.
RIP Clive. x
Clive’s Facebook page is where lots of people are leaving a tribute. If he touched your life you might want to add yours http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563837159
This is my tribute to him:
Clive was an impressive guy.
His achievements were very impressive and his performances as a professional speaker were always impressive.
However, there are quite a few people out there who have done similar things and speak about them very well. What makes Clive different is that he walked his talk, not just for the sake of being able to tell a good story but in everything he did and said even when it got really uncomfortable.
There are lots of people who let people believe that they agree with things they don’t believe in or just keep quiet rather than rock the boat but that wasn’t Clive’s style.
If you asked for his opinion you’d get it (and he’d tell you that it was HIS opinion, HIS truth and no-one else’s)
If you said something he disagreed with, he’d tell you why. He was not a political animal, he was a genuine one. He didn’t play power games and this meant that some people didn’t like him.
In the six years I knew him, I saw him interact with a wide variety of people. Some were charmed, some were changed and some were challenged – no one was untouched and this was his strength and his value in other people’s lives.
There was no condescension, holier than thou message in Clive’s talks. He exposed himself as a fallible human being who made mistakes and was willing to make changes and was all the more inspiring because of it. He invited people to hold a mirror up to themselves and if they didn’t like what they saw, to have the courage to make changes for themselves. This is why Clive will be talked about for a long time to come and why his impact on thousands of people will be a lasting one.
If ever a man knew how to do the right thing rather than the done thing it was Clive.
If any of us can look back our lives and be as proud of our achievements as Clive can be of his we’ll know we’ve lived well.
I’ll miss him.
Posted in Inspiration, Steps to Success Events | Tags: Condescension, Facebook, Heart Attack, Impressive Guy, Larger Than Life, Life Man, Lot, Mirror, Political Animal, Power Games, Professional Speaker, Rock The Boat, Sake, Six Years, Tribute, Truth | 5 Comments »
Do you need tea and sympathy?
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Oh dear, poor you. You’re having a hard time, your business isn’t going well and life is so unfair and you have a lot to deal with.
This sympathy is free, there’s no obligation to return it and it’s offered in all sincerity. I’d offer you some tea to go with it but I can see you’ve already had lots.
Now, how do you feel? Understood and supported? Good.
But here you are still feeling bad and I can see that every time someone asks you how things are you feel that pain all over again. Could it be that the more you focus on your difficulties the worse you make yourself feel?
Anyway, that’s more than enough sympathy now. What you need is some encouragement.
Your business doesn’t have any emotions. It responds to action. Take the right actions and your business will flourish. Expect it to sit and wait for you to ‘feel like’ taking action and it won’t.
If fear has you in its frozen grip, sympathy won’t get you out of it. Even the tea won’t melt it. Only action has any effect.
If you can’t think straight, DO something.
Consistent action, doing the right things at the right time, is what gets us what we want but until you figure out the right things to do, do something anyway. Action has a 50% chance of getting the right result. Inaction has none.
I’m sorry you’re feeling bad. Really I am but what are you DOING to change things?
Posted in Inspiration | Tags: Consistent Action, Emotions, Encouragement, Fear, Focus, Hard Time, Inaction, Lot, Obligation, Right Time, Sincerity, Sit, Tea And Sympathy | 3 Comments »
