by Tim Parkins | Nov 20, 2022
How To Deal With Sh!t That Derails Your Plans
Sh!t happens. Sorry, it just does.
Failure is an inevitable part of life. The author of the famous Harry Potter book series, J. K. Rowling, articulated it so well in a 2008 speech at Harvard;
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all; in which case, you fail by default.”
Brilliantly said.
If you are reading this, there is a high probability that you are…
by Tim Parkins | Nov 13, 2022
The Amazing Power of the Word “and”
Be uniquely you.
In the current career advice / self-development world, it is very difficult not to stumble across the “follow your passion” advice. Which, for the record, I feel can be quite harmful advice. Not that you should not be doing work that you enjoy doing and are good at, but you need to ensure that there is an actual market demand for what you want to do.
The idea behind the advice to “follow your passion” is to take an activity that you enjoy…
by Tim Parkins | Nov 6, 2022
Work. What Is It Good For?
Here’s a crazy question for you; “Why do you work?”
The answer that almost everyone provides when asked this question is “to make money”. Which is fair. After all, we need to buy food to eat, to pay for shelter, and to purchase our way through daily life.
But it is a superficial answer. Because if you go a level deeper, and think about why you want to earn MORE money (as almost everyone does), you think about all the amazing things you would do, if only you had more…
by Tim Parkins | Oct 30, 2022
You won’t be here forever. So live intentionally.
I just returned from Portugal. I spent the last 18 days exploring the beautiful sites, history, and culture along with my wife and her mother. It was so enjoyable! There are so many interesting things to see and explore, and so much history.
One town that we visited was Évora. While there we visited the “Capela dos Ossos” (“Chapel of Bones”). This site blew me away.
It is a chapel that was constructed and decorated with the bones of thousands…
by Tim Parkins | Oct 23, 2022
The Gift Of Presence: The Secret To Living A Great Life.
I decided to do something a bit differently this week, as a poem that I came across inspired me. The poem was called “The Life of a Day” written by Tom Hennen.
The Life of a Day
Like people or dogs, each day is unique and has its own personality quirks which can easily be seen if you look closely. But there are so few days as compared to people, not to mention dogs, that it would be surprising if a day were not a hundred times more…
