egads and small fishes

Life is a great bundle of little things.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

By managing the little things we make more room for the bigger things - the things that give our life meaning. Tasks that follow us day in and day out can over-run us if we do not give them their own place so we can move away from that place quickly and efficiently.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was one of the best regarded 19th century American poets even though he was a physician by profession. His poem Ironsides gave him national prominence and generated enough public sentiment that resulted in the historic frigate USS Constitution being preserved as a monument rather than be broken up for scrap.

Good change is the (occasionally) skilful redirecting, renewing, and reconnecting of stuff (like time, money, things, jokes, knowledge, hopes, passion, and dreams) into something better for us, for someone, even for everyone.
- Max McKeown

I’m ready for something better by making good changes in my life.

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Max McKeown has been described as “somewhere between Bill Gates and Buddha on the wisdom scale”. McKeown works as a strategic adviser and is a well-known speaker on subjects including innovation, engagement, human potential, customer experience, marketing, team building, and competitive advantage. He has written six books, including Unshrink featuring the myths that stop our people doing their best work and a set of new principles to engage their interest and ability.