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Naked Leader Week – 292 – Monday 26 January 2009 Which President Said…? Read Time: Twenty Seconds – Think Time – ? A quick quiz Four Presidents, Four Quotes Match the quote to the leader: The Presidents 1 Woodrow Wilson – C 2 George W Bush – D 3 Abraham Lincoln – A 4 John…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 291 – Monday 19 January 2009 A momentous moment for the world… Read Time: Fifteen Seconds … Happens this week with the inauguration of Barack Obama as America’s first black President, and with it comes a huge wave of hope for the world. Here are my favourite three quotes from the…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 290 – Monday 12 January 2009 What can you change by worrying? Read Time: Sixty Seconds This week, our daughter, Olivia embarks on the travelling part of her gap year – yes, she is off across the world. For the last few weeks, as she prepared and packed and talked about…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 289 – Monday 5 January 2009 Read Time: Ten Seconds (Action Time…) A happy 2009 to you all I believe we always over estimate what we can achieve in a single year So do you, deep down I know we always under estimate what we can achieve in a single moment…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 288 – Monday 29 December 2008 Record your achievements, as well as your plans Reading Time, One Minute – Action Time, Between Zero and Thirty Minutes… As a new year approaches, our minds and our lives turn to the future – what we can achieve in the year to come? Absolutely,…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 287 Monday 22 December 2008 For the Man Who Hated Christmas Read Time: Five Minutes (Warmth Time: Well into 2009) The short Christmas story below was originally published in the December 14, 1982 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. This moving story inspired the creation of The White Envelope Project, (link to…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 286 – Monday 15 December 2008 Remembered by a Cross… Read Time: Thirty Seconds (Legacy Time: Forever) Henri Dunant, a wealthy 30-year-old Swiss banker and financier, was sent by his government to propose a business deal with Napoleon III. He found the Frenchman on the plain of Solferino, seconds away from…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 285 – Monday 8 December 2008 Ask a silly question… Read Time: Seven Seconds (Smile Time Following: Seven Seconds) Our daughter Olivia passed her driving test, first time, helped (and hindered) by many people “teaching her” Word for word conversation last week: David: “So, Olivia, of all the people involved, who…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 284 – Monday 1 December 2008 Persistence Pays Off…Eventually Read Time: Ten Seconds (Persistence Time 28 years) On Thursday 20 November, after 28 years of losing, Anthony Knott, amateur jockey, finally won a horse race. With even his children poking fun at his persistence, he proved them wrong by winning the…… Continue Reading
Naked Leader Week – 283 – Monday 24 November 2008 On Tuesday 4 November the funeral took place in north Wales of a family of six who died in a motorway crash. David and Michelle Statham, and children Reece, 13, Jay, nine, Mason, 20 months, and Ellouise, 10 weeks, died in a collision on the…… Continue Reading