I switched to LBC in the car, just as James O’Brien was winding up his shift. Apparently his theme today had been Christmas Round Robins.
What he quoted from one went roughly like this:
“This year my wife’s dream finally came true and we changed all nine internal doors.”
I wasn’t about to be ROFL, well not at the wheel anyway, but I snorted. It wasn’t until I reached my destination, that the word bathos reared up from the depths where it has been languishing for a couple of decades.
And yet…and yet… Easy to sneer. That was the environment she wanted, that was her magnetic goal, which she’s now achieved. Just a pity it made it to the Round Robin.
You can listen to it, and other Robins, on today's Best of James podcast. Names were not changed to protect any sources.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Getting into the seasonal spirit
I've just been busy checking my database so that I can contact former clients to offer them a free coaching session as a New Year treat and a bit of a booster.
The nice bit for me will be catching up with their news and it's satisfying whenever we make contact to hear about the effect of the changes they have made in their lives as a result of their coaching.
This week I've started to convert some of my favourite coaching resources into pdf files so that they can be available free for download from my website. I'm using Cute PDF, which is available free, to do this.
I have really appreciated, in starting up a business, that some outstanding programs are available free. My PC Hero Providers are, in order of seniority according to their arrival on my desktop; Zone Alarm, AVG Anti-Virus, CCleaner (running the latter restored all the missing formatting in my Blogger posts), Skype, Blogger (bless its little betasocks), a-squared Security and SpyBot. (I'm a tad worried that AVG is about to do the PC equivalent of an NHS dentist going private.)
The files I've chosen are ones that anyone can use and they're also the ones that I use myself. It may be self-defeating from the marketing perspective, but I'm looking on it as my social contribution. Even better if my PC Hero Providers download them.
Note to self: Ask the web site's designer if there's any way of tracking how many files are downloaded.
The nice bit for me will be catching up with their news and it's satisfying whenever we make contact to hear about the effect of the changes they have made in their lives as a result of their coaching.
This week I've started to convert some of my favourite coaching resources into pdf files so that they can be available free for download from my website. I'm using Cute PDF, which is available free, to do this.
I have really appreciated, in starting up a business, that some outstanding programs are available free. My PC Hero Providers are, in order of seniority according to their arrival on my desktop; Zone Alarm, AVG Anti-Virus, CCleaner (running the latter restored all the missing formatting in my Blogger posts), Skype, Blogger (bless its little betasocks), a-squared Security and SpyBot. (I'm a tad worried that AVG is about to do the PC equivalent of an NHS dentist going private.)
The files I've chosen are ones that anyone can use and they're also the ones that I use myself. It may be self-defeating from the marketing perspective, but I'm looking on it as my social contribution. Even better if my PC Hero Providers download them.
Note to self: Ask the web site's designer if there's any way of tracking how many files are downloaded.
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