Survival of the fittest

This week I have a bad back which is annoying, firstly because it is holding up my work but also because I can’t exercise. I have been trying to stay trim for a few years now ever since I realised that I’m not as young as I used to be and I can’t eat what I want...

Procrastination: as promised, eventually

  Most business owners — in fact most people — confuse true action with deceptive illusions, and our brains use a variety of techniques to deceive us into thinking we’re actually getting things done. Here are the top 5, according to Jeffrey Pfaffer and Robert...
Summertime and the Living is Easy

Summertime and the Living is Easy

Hasn’t it been a lovely couple of weeks of weather. Warm and dry. Sunny. Hopefully, this will be a good Summer. It’s tempting to use this as an excuse to laze around and do as little as possible (but wait, whilst everyone else does that you can steal a...

7 Quirks part 2

As promised here are the remaining quirks from Tim’s article. All of them apply equally to our business and personal lives, not just stocks and shares. 5. Anchoring Ten years or so of research have shown we have a nasty tendency to ‘anchor’ on specific numbers....
We’re only human

We’re only human

    I was reading an old (2009) post from the investor magazine written by Tim Christoffel (Psy-Fi blog) and I thought you might like this. Remember it was written for stock market investors but the psychological quirks he highlights apply to everyone both...