Here’s a blog posting from my client and friend Joanna Taylor on the value of self-hypnosis. Do take her up on her offer of the free CD it’ll do you no end of good. The technique of self-hypnosis can help you to regain your life balance, using as little as 15 minutes a day. HypnosisContinue reading “How to Regain Your Life Balance in 15 Minutes”
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Resources – Fresh Business Thinking
Fresh Business Thinking is a useful website full of links to all sorts of information for the small business. They produce newsletters on a regular basis that are usually an interesting read. Here’s the link http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com and here’s a recent article on making the most of your existing customers.
How To Lose Your Job On Facebook
From the ever excellent John Naughton memex.naughtons.org How to lose your job on FaceBook
The Monday Morning Quote #52
If you could actually stand in someone else’s shoes, to hear what they hear, see what they see, and feel what they feel, you would honestly wonder what planet they live on, and be totally blown away by how different their “reality” is from yours. You’d also never, in a million years, be quick toContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #52”
PFI interest rates by bailed-out banks unjustified
NEWS FROM THE CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY PFI interest rates by bailed-out banks unjustified http://bit.ly/Qtbe5 http://www.health.ed.ac.uk/CIPHP/ The UK government is allowing banks to restore their profits by charging unjustifiably high interest rates for health service private finance initiative (PFI) projects, a study claims. An opportunity to negotiate better interest rates is being missed,Continue reading “PFI interest rates by bailed-out banks unjustified”
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Good piece from Harvard Business Review by Jim Heskett. I particularly enjoyed the reasoned and balanced opinions that follow. Read it here: hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6245.html
Oral Cancer Rates Up – but is the real truth hard to swallow?
There have been a lot of mentions in the media over the past 10 days that the rates of Oral Cancer have risen in individuals in their 40s. When I was a student & during my hospital career we were told that Oral & Lip Cancers were related to the “5Ss”: Smoking, Spirits, Sepsis, SunshineContinue reading “Oral Cancer Rates Up – but is the real truth hard to swallow?”
On the Pop in North Yorkshire
I enjoyed a couple of working days in Yorkshire last week. I met old and new friends including Janet Mason from DPAS who I bumped into outside a Dental Practice in a certain market town. This particular practice has been in place for a couple of years but hasn’t managed to get as far asContinue reading “On the Pop in North Yorkshire”
Why Bother Having Expert Advisors?
A report in today’s Guardian concerning the free availability of anti-virals to treat the symptoms of swine ‘flu. Before I left for my holiday in Ireland in mid July it seemed that the population was going to succumb to this dread plague but in the nick of time Gordon and his chums had come toContinue reading “Why Bother Having Expert Advisors?”
The Monday Morning Quote
Basics #1. “It’s always ‘the people.’” It may be glib, but in this instance I don’t care. Network, keep your promises, behave decently. Your are as good as your relationships. Period. Short term. Long term. Good times. Tough times. This is the time (though all times are, in fact, the time) to “over” invest inContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote”