As the Christmas season approaches and you are left wondering where the year went, please stop! Stop measuring time. 

Here are four quotes that have played themselves into my business. 

How many times have you sat there and watched someone else get ready to do something and procrastinate and thought to yourself, or muttered, or said out loud – Come on – Just DO It!

So did you read Open Your Mind or Mind Your Open in our graphic? Either way the message should resonate! Here we go with Habits 3 and 4…

There is no ‘perfect plan’ to start on January 1. Good habits can be started and bad habits dropped on any day. Make today count!

Einstein knew it. He also knew that “Creativity was intelligence having fun”. Creativity and Innovation require Imagination. Futurists, science fiction writers and Hollywood have always flirted with the impossible and in doing so, seeded the possible.

On a small island or village, your word is your bond. Once trust is gone, your name is mud. 

This is a memorial where the old village church used to be.

Here I am on the island of my ancestors. I am a fanatical walker and discover whatever I can on foot.

Close your eyes and think about the last time you travelled to a different country, state, city or even suburb.

Always ask with gratitude for any response. And make sure your motives are honest and authentic.

At its heart NYC, just like any other city or town, is the collective energy of its inhabitants.

We constantly hear about ‘cuts’ to business, mining, manufacturing, health and education.

Creativity can be consumed by assumptions.

“Technology should be a means rather than an end”, says neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, who warns that our addiction to social media and devices will come at a cost to our skills and productivity.

I was impressed a couple of weeks ago. Returning home from my early morning walk I passed a new business venture that was about to launch – Pure – a retail outlet for clothes, shoes and accessories for sporting enthusiasts.

Every now and again it’s also good to be inspired by businesses closer to home – and this is  a little less awe-inspiring and international.

I went book mad this Christmas! And I’m not talking the Kindle variety – although I do love the convenience of a Kindle – my mother used to say a time and place for everything.