Maurice's Blog

If we define success as offering something truly valuable and unique to the world, then the following 3 words.  will help you create enormous value: FOCUS COMMITMENT CONSISTENCY Well, actually 4 words. The diamond of words is EXTREME.  So, EXTREME FOCUS EXTREME COMMITMENT EXTREME CONSISTENCY (1) Extreme focus When we are extremely focussed, we are…

Our mind is like an artist which is able to paint what we want on a canvas. We give meaning to the situation and so any situation is less important than the meaning we give to it. And so especially when I am stuck, I remind myself to see how I can change the way…

Recently I was in Barcelona, Spain for business, and I took the opportunity to drop in and meet up briefly with a friend who wants to sell his factory located in Barcelona, potentially to someone with deep pockets in Asia. He wants to sell his factory because he has been running the family owned business…

There are a million ways to get to sleep for people who can’t get to sleep. Some use pills, or alcohol,  others use all kinds of other methods. Some methods are more effective than others, and some are less harmful than others. Very often many of us can’t get to sleep due to anxiety, thinking…

Most of the time, we try to hide in our mental cocoon. It feels safer. It feels risky disturbing our firmly held beliefs, habits and relationships. It feels risky to do anything that “might not work”. Our heartbeats go up, we sweat and we are anxious whenever there are changes ahead. It feels safer not…

Many years ago, when I first started working in textiles, I am grateful that I started this work journey in the textile industry on the paradise island of Sri Lanka.  I was sent there for training by the company I was working for. Part of the training was spent on the shop floor of a…

We are our own biggest self critique. This means that our internal speech keeps reminding us that we are not “good enough”. That we need to “do better”. I have a feeling that these two words get in our own way of delivery of our work. “Do better” implies that we are doing it and…

All the little things (positive or negative)  become big things over time, so it’s better to pay attention to them while they are still small! Everything starts with a seed as the main cause. With watering and nourishment, and encouraging environmental factors, it starts to grow and eventually becomes monster size. It’s the same pathway…

Here is what I have discovered: nearly everything I do can be done better by someone else cheaper or better, can be outsourced, and basically I am replaceable within one millisecond.  Someone else can always have stronger muscles or better brains than me. But there is one job no one can take away from me.…

For those of us who make gratitude a regular practice, taking our attention out with intention to be grateful about something or someone, we realise by now that we can be grateful about everything that comes our way. We can be grateful about the things that go well, and the things that don’t go so…