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What if it's not YOUR response to an event that currently determines the outcome?
Jack Canfield's Event + Response = Outcome sounds simple. Except your response may already have been decided for you, by a playbook your brain wrote years before today.

Mark Franklin
Sep 13 min read


What will it take for you to 'quit the but'?
Seth Godin was recently on The Diary of a CEO talking about quitting, resistance and the Gordian Knot. It got me thinking about the word 'but', and the promises we quietly break to ourselves.

Mark Franklin
Aug 253 min read


Action, impact, energy, technique
The premise of 'action, impact, energy, technique' is simple. What do you do, how does it make you (and others) feel, what is the cost and reward... is there a better way?

Mark Franklin
Aug 183 min read


Don't stop being (good) selfish
Good selfish means putting yourself first for the right reasons. Here's what the research on wellbeing, burnout and boundaries actually says about it.

Mark Franklin
Aug 114 min read


The normalisation of deviance
Sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the phrase after the 1986 Challenger disaster. The gradual erosion of standards, repeated without consequence, until normal no longer means what it once did.

Mark Franklin
Jul 284 min read


The three most important currencies in your business
Self-value, self-trust, and self-worth are the three most important currencies in your business. Here's how to check your exchange rate and start shifting it.

Mark Franklin
Jul 215 min read
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