What’s involved for an organiser? Basically you’re working with the school or community group to collate details of the children receiving koha/gifts, agreeing on a process for getting those gifts from the donors to the school/group, and sharing the details of those children with the donors who sign up – this might be first names …
The Seven Day Weekend – Ricardo Semler Why are we able to answer emails on Sundays, but unable to go to the movies on Monday afternoons? – Ricardo Semler, the man. End of book. OK, that’s probably not much of a description, and I guess the point of writing these things is to encourage you …
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Deep Work – by Cal Newport. Rules for focused success in a distracted world. I’ve always been distracted. Or I’ve always daydreamed. Or I’ve always been lazy. When it comes to getting things done, those three statements can sometimes look like the same thing. Sometimes I feel like life is an amusement park with too …
Book worth reading: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Angela Duckworth Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckaworth. “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.” When I was growing up in Otaki there were kids who seemed smart, and then were kids who …
Dear H, Two months ago I finished up in a job I loved doing, working in an area filled with people I loved being around. I’d been telling myself it was time to move on for a few months, for reasons I’ll get to soon. In my goodbye email, I wrote a few thoughts about …
Dear H, You’re 18 months old and pretty much mimicking anything we say, which is stupidly cute – but obviously means me and your mum need to make sure we’re not saying anything we don’t want you repeating on loop at daycare. My Dad had you walking around saying Dropkick in the weekend (rugby reference, hopefully). We talked …
I started writing this about four weeks ago on my way home from seeing my little cousin for the last time. She was 21 years old when she hung herself because she just couldn’t get things to feel right inside. I almost didn’t finish it since the writing had served it’s selfish self-therapy purpose. But watching my niece and …