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The Greatest Salesman In the World — Og Mandino

I read this book on the advice of a friend who had suggested it to me. I am not sure the title in itself would ever have ‘sold’ it to me…

Apr 6, 2024

The Greatest Salesman In the World — Og Mandino

Apr 6, 2024

Read to Lead — The Simple Habit that Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career

A Review of the book by Jeff Brown and Jesse Wisnewski

Apr 1, 2024

front cover of read to lead book

Apr 1, 2024

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‘Feel Good Productivity’ — A Review

A review of a book that I wanted to like, but couldn’t.

Mar 31, 2024

Cover of Feel Good Productivity Book

Mar 31, 2024

Fear and Loathing in London

I have really cut back on my intake of social media over the last couple of weeks, since the massacre of Jews by Hamas in Israel.

Oct 23, 2023

Fear and Loathing in London

Oct 23, 2023

Reflections on Jewishness and Israel

I grew up in a modern orthodox Jewish family in the UK. Most of the time, I didn’t think much about my identity because you don’t think…

Oct 21, 2023

Reflections on Jewishness and Israel

Oct 21, 2023

Man’s Search for Meaning — Some Reflections

I have read Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, severalseveral times, but returned to it last week because I was feeling unsettled…

Jul 3, 2023

Man’s Search for Meaning — Some Reflections

Jul 3, 2023

Listening

Listening as a reflection of humility

Jun 26, 2023

Listening

Jun 26, 2023

Thoughts of Beginnings

Thinking aloud

Jun 21, 2023

Thoughts of Beginnings

Jun 21, 2023

Waiting to Start

On Procrastination

Jun 20, 2023

Waiting to Start

Jun 20, 2023

Difference

Navigating the wrong kind of different

Jul 15, 2022

Difference

Jul 15, 2022

Failure

Picking yourself up

Jul 13, 2022

Failure

Jul 13, 2022

‘I honoured Ilion the most..’

Reading The Iliad as an adult

Jul 12, 2022

A copy of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

Jul 12, 2022

A Reflection on Social Work

I am a social worker. Wherever you are located, and whatever experiences you may, or may not have had, that statement will draw…

Jul 4, 2022

A Reflection on Social Work

Jul 4, 2022

Kindness

Kindness — what do we mean when we talk about it? It can be interpreted as a simple act or it can be a state of mind. Many years ago, I…

Jul 3, 2022

Kindness

Jul 3, 2022

On Reading Well — Finding the Good Life through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior

“Just as water. over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good…

Jul 2, 2022

On Reading Well — Finding the Good Life through Great Books by Karen Swallow Prior

Jul 2, 2022

Backwards and forwards

I try not to look backwards, because it doesn’t bring me comfort. I remember reading a book talking about how, in order to look back and…

Jun 30, 2022

Backwards and forwards

Jun 30, 2022

Tolerance and Difference

A couple of things happened to me over the last few weeks that have caused me to examine a number of deeply held beliefs which I have and…

Jun 26, 2022

Tolerance and Difference

Jun 26, 2022

Reflections on reflection

Reflection and what is it didn’t come easy to me. I am an inpatient soul. I wanted to ‘do’. That was, to me, anyway, why I chose social…

Jun 25, 2022

A hand reaching its reflection in water

Jun 25, 2022

Values

We often, in social work, or at least in my experience of social work, talk about professional values. They are evident in our professional…

Jun 24, 2022

Jun 24, 2022

Servant Leadership — Some thoughts

I can’t remember how I stumbled on Robert Greenleaf’s writings but I know I am very late to the game. This is partly because I have long…

Jun 12, 2022

Jun 12, 2022

Victoria

Victoria

Jewish Londoner. Interests in social work, cats and life.

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