Relay for Life
When I checked my email this morning, I was moved to tears by this little gesture.
On November 6th, I put a post on my blog about the death of our guide dog Buddy, who had finally succumbed to lung cancer.
This morning I got this email with these photos from Sonya:
This is a fantastic example of lateral thinking http://chris-edwards.com/power-lateral-thinking-work/
Fun mash with Flickr images http://chris-edwards.com/fun-mash-flickr/
Central Railway Station Sydney
We just got back from Sydney at 3am this morning. We had been up there for business, and the trip was good, but man are we tired.
Ok, so it is partly my fault because we left Sydney at midnight, but what really took it out of us was the hotel we had stayed in the night before.
We had stayed in this hotel a few times before and it wasn’t bad, so when we arrived at the hotel and were very kindly upgraded to a bigger room, it sounded good. Unfortunately the room was on the opposite side of the hotel to where we had stayed before, and it overlooked central railway station.
Do you have any idea how many noisy trains there are in the wee small hours of the morning!
Central Railway Station from hotel window
Memories of the Tsunami in Thailand
As the relief teams from New Zealand, Australia and the US head for the Pacific in the wake of the latest Tsunami, I recall the last devastating tsunami as thought it was just the other day.
I was on holiday in Thailand a few weeks before the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2005. And because of my very recent trip, I was very focused on getting any news I could at the time.
I found four photos from news coverage that were taken at the identical spots where I had taken photos only weeks before.
My before shot of this spot, you’ll find it on my blog at Memories of a Tsunami
On this spot there was a small food trolly, tended by a very nice old lady with the help of a small girl. To the right of the photo is a school yard. The school was destroyed along with the village. 90% of the population were lost to the sea.
My thoughts and best wishes are with those in the Samoa and Indonesia now.
I just put up a blog post Memories of a Tsunami with a few before and after pix from Thailand http://chris-edwards.com/memories-tsunami/
Workplace Bullying Linked to Sleep Problems (http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20090901/workplace-bullying-linked-to-sleep-problems?src=RSS_PUBLIC)
Billy McMahon at Concord Bowling Club
I found this old photo of my grandfather Jack Edwards, shaking hands with Prime Minister Billy McMahon at Concord Bowling Club.
It would have been in 1971 or 1972.
Maybe someone knows when Billy McMahon visited the club?
Depression Dulls Brain’s Pleasure Sites (http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20090819/depression-dulls-brains-pleasure-sites?src=RSS_PUBLIC)
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Chris Edwards Life Coach
My name is Chris Edwards and I am a personal coach.
I have a great interest in people and personal performance. My clients come to me to improve their business, their relationships and their lives.
The key ingredient in success is Integrity. You must demonstrate integrity in everything you do.
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Executive Coaching- A management disaster or an opportunity for leadership? August 27, 2009In the last few weeks I’ve worked with two people, each with very different roles and responsibilities, yet both facing a similar dilemma: One is a senior manager in charge of a team of high performers with millions at stake and the other, the owner of a small business that is gradually running into the ground. [...]
- Who should do the Boss’ staff appraisal? August 23, 2009The greatest benefit comes from staff appraisals that are done by either the employee’s manager or a senior manager who can take a personal interest in wellbeing of the employee. But what happens to the boss? Who does his or her performance appraisal? Quite often, the answer is no one! Now, if you are thinking that the [...]
- How often should you do a staff appraisal? August 17, 2009Over the course of my career, I’ve worked in small family owned businesses, a university, a large government department and US multinational. Each had their own version of a performance appraisal or a staff appraisal, and I believe each were genuine in their intention to manage the process; although there were many individuals whom I could [...]
- Staff appraisal problems and how to avoid them August 14, 2009No matter who you are and what your role in the process, few people like the idea of having a staff appraisal. For person being appraised, staff appraisal day can feel like judgement day. All of a sudden, someone you work with or work for gets an opportunity to sit in judgement on your performance. (At [...]
- Recession proofing business strategy April 29, 2009Clever planning and good leadership can ensure that you survive the current recession; great leadership will see you come out of it in better shape than you are in now. Cutting costs – what should you do? Many managers and accountants will advise you to cut spending, reduce staff and ‘batten down the hatches’, but is it [...]
- A management disaster or an opportunity for leadership? August 27, 2009
- Leap into life
- The Joys of a Wet Christmas Day December 26, 2009The last week has been in the high 30s (high 90s F) and the weather forecast was for a cool change and rain on Christmas Day. Although the idea of a rainy Christmas Day sounded fantastic, somehow I didn’t really believe it would happen. Casting my mind back over the decades of Christmases I’ve had before, [...]
- The End of Misleading Testimonials? December 21, 2009We all want those we deal with to be honest and truthful with us – in fact, we expect it. Even the most deceitful crook expects his friends and associates to be honest with him. It is this expectation of honesty that makes the use of testimonials in advertisements a very effective advertising tool – be [...]
- Why is water more expensive than Coke? December 16, 2009Over the last 4 to 5 weeks my life has revolved around shifting all of our belongings and painting most of the rooms in the house. Yesterday was hot, and with nothing to drink but tap water I wandered down to the supermarket to get an icy cold drink. So why is it that bottles of filtered [...]
- Doubling your Pleasure with the Gift of Giving December 13, 2009A month a go we decided to do a massive Spring-clean and over the past four weeks we have emptied every single room and shifted everything in the yard. We literally ‘downed tools’, unplugged the computers and got stuck into it (that’s why you haven’t seen a post from me in the last month). We have cleaned [...]
- Taking my Shadow for a Walk November 13, 2009I decided to take our dog ‘Shadow’ for a walk before breakfast yesterday and so was out the door at sunrise. The lighting at that time of the day is just magnificent. It was such a beautiful morning that, I wished I’d brought my SLR… then I remembered that I had my phone. I’ve missed a lot [...]
- The Joys of a Wet Christmas Day December 26, 2009
