Brendan Norris

Conventional Thinking

Brendan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:56:02 +0000

“We cannot cram the embryonic world of tomorrow into yesterday’s conventional cubby holes.”

– Alfin Toffler, author of “Future Shock”

What do you do with so much ease that you fail to give it value?

Brendan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:06:51 +0000

So many times I have worked with people who totally discount the things that they find so easy to be/do as not being of value to others. There is a very pervasive myth that things that are too easy are not of value. The classic saying of “no pain, no gain” illustrates this.

What if the exact opposite was true? What if it is the very things that we do with such ease are some of our greatest talents and abilities? What would our lives look like if we were willing to stop buying the myth that just because we find it easy others must too. They don’t!

So what do you do with such ease? Do you value it? Do you allow others to value this?

Question Everything

Brendan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:38:06 +0000

What do I mean by “question everything”?

In a nutshell this is pretty much my philosohy for life.

Everything from the way we do business, relationships, health and beyond in my view should be questioned.

As Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”