You want to improve how your day is going?

Josh Spector recommends the following:

1. Do one meaningful thing you can complete in a single day or even in an hour. You’ll feel happy when it’s done. And it’ll help to develop positive habits over time.

2. Do one thing you regret not doing yesterday. Learn from your mistakes you made yesterday. You’ll feel better once those negative feelings have been eliminated.

3. Do one thing to pleasantly surprise someone. You’ll feel good making other people feel good.

4. Do one thing you’ve avoided. Ask yourself: “Of the things I’ve been avoiding, which one am I going to do today?” You’ll feel proud and relieved that you’ve tackled something you might have been fearing.

5. Do one selfish thing. Doing one thing that makes you happy is a sign that you’re taking care of yourself.

Which one are you going to tackle first today?

Here are two words that are often confused.

Homework refers to the tasks you were given by your teacher and that you were supposed to do at home. (In German: “‘Hausaufgaben’)

Perhaps you have your own children now and spend your afternoons helping them with their homework—as your parents might have done years ago.

Housework refers to the everyday tasks or chores that need to be done at home, like washing the clothes, washing the dishes, cleaning and ironing. (In German: ‘im Haushalt anfallende Arbeiten’)

“In an increasingly complex world, appointed leaders simply don’t know enough to decide what is new and better. Leadership is a group sport, not an individual heroic activity.”
Edgar Schein

There are the ‘hero’ leaders who believe they have to do it alone. But there are those who realise that they need the support and help of others. Those who humbly and honestly admit:

“Wait a minute, I can’t do that. I need help. I’m the CEO, but I need help. I need to listen to people. I need to understand how to do this from others who know better than I do.”

Interested in the topic? You might like to read Ego Zehnder’s “In Conversation with Ed Schein“.

Only recently did I realise that colour sets the tone and mood of a film before any of the actors have even started to speak.

Do you know which colours signify violence, sweetness, warmth, madness, insecurity, immaturity, calmness and fantasy?

Take a guess before looking at Lidia Seara‘s excellent video montage showing how filmmakers use colour to create the desired emotion in the various scenes.

Did you guess correctly?

Foil and Hog want to enter Germany. But can they get past German immigration?

Watch this 3-minute video and get ready for a few laughs. (Remember, you can add subtitles if you need a little help.)

Who said Germans don’t have a sense of humour?