Being prompt from The Wise Old Man on Vimeo.
This may be tantamount to exposing a deep psychological flaw in my make up, but I loathe being late for appointments. I would rather be half-an-hour early and have to kill time than be two minutes late. I do not see my obsession reflected in the behaviour of many others. I am frequently kept waiting, [...]
take_courage from The Wise Old Man on Vimeo.
Some time ago a survey conducted in the U.S.A. apparently revealed that a major fear among the executive class was that they would be ‘found out’. It seems most people do not believe they are capable, qualified or educated enough to do their job adequately. I am sure this is not confined to executives (whatever [...]
todolists from The Wise Old Man on Vimeo.
How often have you thought, “I must do X as soon as I finish what I’m doing now”? And promptly forgotten all about it? Me too! To avoid this predicament, the conventional advice is to add X to your to-do list or note it on a handy scrap of paper before continuing with the current [...]
hapiness from The Wise Old Man on Vimeo.
I have argued for many years that happiness is a choice. This is borne out by a) the large number of people who ‘have everything’ and are still dissatisfied, miserable, suicidal or just plain grumpy and b) the seemingly even larger number of people who have nothing and yet find cause to smile. I am [...]
Blame Especially right now, in the aftermath of the EU Referendum, there is a lot of blaming going on. Stop it, is my recommendation. It is not the old, for voting to leave; it is not the young, for not turning out in enough numbers to vote for remaining; it is not the immigrants, for [...]
You may have noticed that the WOM dropped off the radar a while back. (Or you may not have noticed!) There are no really good reasons for this. I simply allowed life to get in the way and justified my inactivity by telling myself that building and decorating in my new house were too time-consuming [...]
My Uncle Jim was a welder in the R.E.M.E. He served in Korea (it was yet another war, for younger readers) and became the first self-made millionaire in our family. He did not become rich overnight, of course. After leaving the army he did a whole host of things. First he worked as a welder [...]
For a number of reasons my wife and I are currently sharing a car. Her car. My wife is very fond of her car. She is not keen on letting other people drive it. She is especially not at all keen on me driving it. She does not like the way I drive and does [...]
What is stress? I’m going through a house move at the moment. And finding it quite stressful. Which got me thinking about stress and what exactly it is. Let me be be clear; I do not think I know the answer. To this or any other question. I’m not even sure there are any answers. [...]
I was recording a WOM video recently and, as it was a beautiful day, I decided to film in the garden. Unfortunately I live quite near an airport and that day the planes were passing over at two-minute intervals! So I stopped the camera and sat there for a while, hoping that there might be [...]
