Friday 28 December 2007

Attitude, Attention, Appreciation with thanks to Alan Alda

My family and friends are well aware of my love of books and so it has become traditional for me to receive books as gifts and to read at least one over the course of the holiday season. This year my wife gave me Alan Alda's Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. I have been a big fan of Alan's and admire his integrity and what he does to build a better world. His book has reminded me again of the immense power of what I call the three A's, attitude, attention, and appreciation and how having the right attitude, paying attention and being appreciative of each moment of our lives is key to living the best life we can. Alan's answer to the big question What is the meaning of life? is "the meaning of life is life." You will find a lot of great wisdom in the book.

Find out more about Alan and his books and work here. He is a builder of our new world.

Be remarkable
Ian
Insightpreneur™ - insight-inspiration-ideas-innovation

Tuesday 18 December 2007

Expect More From 2008

I have great pleasure in offering you a free gift in the form of an e-book by 53 experts Expect More from 2008. It includes contributions from Remacue Community Members Gihan Perera, Anne Riches, Steve Wells, Terry Power, Candy Tymson, Keith Abraham, Glenn Capelli, Robyn Henderson, David Price, and Catherine Palin-Brinkworth.

My contribution is on page 13.

My best to you and yours. I trust 2008 will be your best year yet.

Be remarkable
Ian
Insightpreneur™ - insight-inspiration-ideas-innovation

Friday 14 December 2007

Is technology your servant or your master?

More and more I see men standing at the urinal talking on their mobile phones!

Often I see teenagers gathered around comparing text messages in lieu of having conversations.

Frequently I am asked to help people feeling stressed by the number of emails they have in their inbox.

What on earth is going on? Technology being our master that’s what.

I love all of the wonderful things we can do because of the incredible advances in technology and the brilliance of the internet, however I value my life more and only use technology to enhance my life, not run it, or as is the case for many people, ruin it.

Is technology your servant or your master?

Be remarkable
Ian
Insightpreneur™ - insight-inspiration-ideas-innovation

Sunday 9 December 2007

Jerry Seinfeld's 3 rules of life

Andrew Denton is a tremendous interviewer and his TV program ‘Enough Rope’ is one of my favourites. More on Denton in futue blogs. He recently interviewed Jerry Seinfeld and asked him “Do you remember the rules of life? You had three rules of life.”

Here is my edited transcript of Jerry’s reply “…I came up with bust your ass, pay attention and fall in love. Bust your ass is just basically whatever you do, work as hard as you can, only good can come of it. And pay attention is just notice enough about what is, you know, about what’s going on around you. You can absorb and learn from everything around you all the time. And fall in love wasn’t, isn’t, romantic love, rather it is like if I get a really good cup of coffee I like to just go, you know what, just hang on a second. This is a fantastic cup of coffee. Isn’t this a great, and I’ll ask everyone, isn’t this great coffee? Cos you know, it’s not always great. This one is great, you know.

This is one of the things that I really did learn from George Burns, and why I had such respect for him is that I will stop and make that moment, you know, you will enjoy life more if you do that. You know, you get a great parking spot, just go…Hold it a second, I mean look at that spot. I mean it’s, we could have been blocks away and we’re right here.”

You can download the full fantastic interview here

What remarkable achievements would happen if you “busted your ass, payed attention and fell in love" more?

Be remarkable
Ian
Insightpreneur™ - insight-inspiration-ideas-innovation