When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. - Walt Disney I know that in a number of these posts I have used my own shortcomings to highlight what I think is the right path to take and here I go again. If you know me personally then you [...]
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Gandhi There are two approaches to not learning. Either you don’t want to learn or you don’t believe you have anything to learn. The first is a result of ignorance the second is the result of arrogance. Both [...]
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard I have lost my way… One of the great things about writing a blog or keeping any kind of record of your thoughts and ideas is that you can refer back. I recently read a post I’d written about clarity on [...]
A magician has a card selected by a spectator. The card is returned and the pack is shuffled. The magician then spreads the cards face down in a wide arc across the table and moves his hand back and forth across the spread, his index finger extended as though it were a divining rod. Eventually [...]
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill How you view failure will pretty much determine your success and your ability to sustain that success. We all fail, the secret is to do it often and recover quickly. As Henry Ford put it: “Failure is only the opportunity to [...]
It’s easy to let things slip. To forgive yourself for a job half done or shrug off the fact that you weren’t up to scratch. And thats okay as long as you understand that it still counts – everything counts. There are so many facets to our careers as magicians and performers that it can [...]
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. Lao-tzu Don’t be afraid of empty space and silence. Give yourself permission to do nothing. Peter Wardell is a corporate magician who writes and speaks about magic and personal development. Share and Enjoy:
If you read about success and successful people you will notice a common theme that occurs in their stories and that is one of some kind of struggle. We most admire the people who have clawed their way up from rock bottom or have conquered seemingly insurmountable odds. Listen to the speech that J.K Rowling [...]
It had been raining for days and days, and a great flood had come over the land. The waters rose so high that one man was forced to climb onto the roof of his house. As the waters rose higher and higher, a man in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in. “No,” replied [...]
If you work on the assumption that you are the heart of your business then it would be right to say that the healthier you are the healthier your business is. The problem with being the business however, is that we as physical entities are very often the last thing we think about. If you [...]
