Testing bed for a different hiring pattern

As I’m listening to our students voice their worries about going to university, graduates from uni struggling to find jobs that they trained for, and the rumblings from the science field, I’m taking a step back to look at Insanitek’s hiring practises. A while back I worked with an HR professional to create a model […]

Profiling? It helps get the jobs done.

OK, before you jump down my throat, I’m not talking about racial profiling. I’m talking about good, old-fashioned personality profiling. This isn’t so dissimilar to the type of profiling you have to go through when you enter the job force in any arena or see on TV when the FBI is looking for the newest […]

Newsletters are losing their magic

I get it: I sign up for your newsletter, you’re going to sell to me. You’re going to send me all the info about you, your products, your service, and your world. Part of that world includes your pal’s launches. I know when I sign up for your little opt in, that I’m going to […]

Silver lining is found in the innocent, opportunistic, and optimistic places of the mind.

Finding the silver lining in (almost) anything

The silver lining is the magical part of life. It shows you all the things you could experience if only you open your eyes in failure. We all have those things that start out with great intentions — then they blow up in our faces. Of course, when that starts happening, there’s a domino effect […]

You have to just close your eyes and curse

Seriously. Sometimes you just feel defeated. If that’s the case, you need to close your eyes and curse so you can conquer defeat. This state of being is more than just a simple passage of time. It’s a feeling that takes the wind out of you, leaves you feeling a little forlorn for a while, […]

Getting and Staying Organised Is A Myth

I can already hear the cries now: “Sacrilege!” from the Love-to-Organise-Everything crowd, “Click-bait!” the hopeful naysayers scream. And yet, here you are reading this in hopes that you’re not the only lost cause in a world of cute, hand-made labels with their matching, over priced storage bins. My office is a testament to what happens […]

Are you willing?

There are a lot of things going on in the world, and a lot of choices we make daily. Some things are simple, like what route to take to our familiar work places, how to dress that morning, or even what to eat. There are variables, but in the end, they aren’t that difficult of decisions. […]

Meditation is not all powerful

Pardon me while I ramble a bit, but there has been something that has been bothering me lately. And that’s the world’s obsession with meditating to manifest the things they want in life. There are thousands of ethical bribes in exchange for your email address from life coaches that will tell you the secret to […]

Planning for Chaos

A trick I once read about in some personal development and productivity book was to visualise how your next day was going to go. So, I sat down to daydream and visualise my morning. The idea is that when you visualise it, you can make it happen. I’d get up, drink a cup of coffee […]

Why believing in yourself leads to success

Believe in yourself seems trite, but it’s true. In psychology there is a concept called “self-efficacy”. The term was coined by Albert Bandura (PDF), who described this as the belief in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations [zotpressInText item=”{J4XJ3RZ7,3}”]. This would be like you, standing in front of […]