I don’t listen to or watch the news – haven’t done for 25 years – why? “Because it’s all negative, Colm” I hear you correctly reply. Bad news sells. Good news – the overwhelming majority of news – doesn’t so by taking our world view from the six-one news (is it still even on?) we…
Almost everyone on the planet has demonstrated they have it. However almost everyone has forgotten. Not only have we forgotten – I’m not aware of anyone who can remember… learning to walk. Almost everyone of us learned to walk despite our fears and despite the fact that we had to fail our way to success….
It’s your eightieth birthday. Family and friends have gathered. You are humbled and grateful that these people took time to be with you on this momentous milestone. Great food, nice wine, even better company, laughter, mirth, song, speeches, craic and even some tears. Yours is the life they are toasting; your accomplishments are the ones…
You know the drill. Eyes forward, earphones out as a plane load of passengers pay scant attention to the air stewards and stewardesses rehearsing the part of their job none of us on board wish to ever see enacted out in ‘real’. “In case of emergency… etc, etc…” Mid-message there is always a demonstration of…
Shortly after I launched Colm O’Brien Motivation in 2016, on the back of the successful publication of my first book, Feeding Johnny – How to Build a Business Despite the Roadblocks I came up with the idea for “Coffee with Colm”. Back then them working title I used for the project was “The Savoy Tapes”…
In 1989, Stephen Covey’s taught us in his timeless classic “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, that the very first habit we need to develop Habit #1 is, “Be Proactive” followed in short succession by Habit #2 “Begin with the end in mind”. Two decades later, in 2009, Simon Sinek cautioned, “Start with Why.” For…