‘If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds worth of distance run…’ Rudyard Kipling ‘Time and tide wait for no man’ Geoffrey Chaucer ‘Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way. Kicking around a piece of ground in your home town. WaitingContinue Reading Time Management and Personal Flexibility
Just as individuals at work make up teams, who make up organisations, so individual family members make up nuclear families who are part of wider family groupings too. Individuals also form networks with their friends, work colleagues and various online communities of interest in the wider world. Each interaction the individual has may vary in;Continue Reading Networks and Personal Flexibility
Firstly a caveat: this particular blog isn’t meant to offer specific financial advice to the reader about what investment products or investment classes to invest in. Readers should seek professional advice to help them understand the risks and choices available relating to financial products made available by particular providers. What is a household budget? ItContinue Reading Household Budgeting and Personal Flexibility
How does personal flexibility (PFL) help to manage uncertainty? First, let’s look at what uncertainty is and how it arises. What uncertainty is Firstly, uncertainty can be positive as well as negative. Why positive? Not knowing who your future soul mate is, or whether you will even find one, makes life exciting. And probably changesContinue Reading Managing Uncertainty and Personal Flexibility
Flexibility and friendships One form of personal flexibility (PFL) is in the crossover between personal friendships & workplace relationships. This blogger has first-hand experience of several professional relationships developing into personal friendships, forged from helping a friend-in-need, or through shared-conflict experienced. In this blogger’s view, the relationship combination works better where both parties are evenlyContinue Reading Human Relationships and Personal Flexibility
What has flexibility got to do with options? Quite simply if you have more options, you have more flexibility. In uncertain situations, or if you are somehow keen to grow (wealth, skills, influence, reputation, character development), having options is valuable. Of course, having more options isn’t useful if you can’t make a decision when timeContinue Reading Real Options and Personal Flexibility
Roller coaster rides remain exciting because of their ups and downs. Ditto the stock market, alpine landscapes and city rooftops. Watching a loved one’s heart rhythm on a hospital heart monitor, is to hope for a steady pattern of highs and lows. Not a flat line. And so it is with life – the set-backsContinue Reading Handling Set-backs and Personal Flexibility
Parenting is both complex and practical. Having raised two step children from the ages of 8 and 10 years onwards (now aged 21 and 23 respectively) and with the benefit of hindsight, I’d like to share some insights about how personal flexibility (PFL) can help people become better parents. Like many parents, I’ve said thingsContinue Reading Parenting and Personal Flexibility
It’s hard to talk about flexiscribes without first referring to flexibility. Flexibility like air, fitness or financial savings is invisible. But vital. We go to great lengths to monitor our personal savings. We aren’t so good at monitoring our air quality, our fitness, or our levels of personal flexibility (PFL). Perhaps now is the timeContinue Reading Flexibility and Flexiscribes
‘We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.’ Barack Obama This particular blog centres on personal flexibility (PFL) inContinue Reading Poverty of Ambition and Flexibility