Don't say you will try. Just do it!
I am a bit of a train buff. I think it comes from my Dad taking me to Willesden Junction after school to watch the Caledonian (Euston to Glasgow evening express) roar through at 4.15pm, often with double headed steam engines at full regulator (throttle).
Watching one of Chris Tarrant's TV programmes on extreme railways he took the train from Narva on the Russian border in Estonia via Talinn, Riga in Latvia to Vilnius in Lithuania.?
This part of the world has a fascinating history. The three Baltic countries were behind the "Iron Curtain" for so long, became independent in the early 90's and joined NATO and the EU as rapidly as they could, I guess to protect their freedom.
I thought I would invite five guests from the Baltic states who have used my negotiation work to form a panel and share their stories, their views and their concerns in 2022.
This was planned before Russia invaded Ukraine so it's even more topical now.
Anu Vask is a consul to the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Tallinn, Estonia.
Valerija Slavina was born in Lithuania, brought up in Belarus and works in London.
Janice Litvin's grandparents escaped the Nazis from Latvia. Janice now lives in San Francisco.
Eva Fanani was bought up in Estonia and now lives in Albuquerque New Mexico
Murvet Sahin lives in Aarhus, Denmark and has worked in Scandinavia for the airline SAS
You can watch this interview on my YouTube channel tomorrow or email me to join live tonight?
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Word of the week
TRY - Try is one of those cop-out words."I will try and do it".
The word try allows the person not to do it and of course the chances are they won't. If you catch yourself or others saying the word TRY. Stop and examine your thinking and calculate the chances of it happening.
Remember the Nike phrase - Just do it
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Listen?to everything people say with your radar tuned on at maximum power.?
What is said, how it is said and notice the body language that accompanies the words.
The words people use gives you a sense of their thinking. It might be the closest you can get to mind reading and there is a thought.