Author: thierry
Reasonable or not?
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw This has been my moto for a long time now. I have been called unreasonable many times in my previous corporate life. But if I was reasonable […]New year resolution… a week on
Well what can I say? I failed miserably or did I? I have not stuck to all the resolutions but yet we are in the middle of a the worst winter I have ever experienced since coming to live in UK over 20 years ago. I still managed to get to work everyday, which is […]New year resolution
Very much like 90% of the population, I have made a New Year resolution. This time, I actually went all the way… I recently read Your best year ever from Jenny Ditzler. I went through the book and then sat down to work the plan. Rather than do it in the recommended three hours session, […]Queen in Japanese
Freddie Mercury eat your heart out…..Being more productive
Emails Studies show that on average a worker checks his/her emails 30 times per day. The goal I would like to set to you is to only collect your emails in batches, let’s say 3 to 4 times per day. Only read company related emails and delete all non-business related emails. Unsubscribe yourself from any […]On a diet….
On a diet! I have been on a diet or another for as long as I can remember. I have tried Slim Fast, Weight Watchers, Atkins and Lighter Life, etc. I have lost at least twice my body weight over the years so why am I still overweight? There is a lot of nonsense written […]Summer Holidays
On the 9th of August we made our annual trip to France. For our first night, we stayed in Novotel near Senlis, the first bedroom we were given was not quite clean enough as we found some hair in the bath, I went down to reception and asked to change. This was done without too […]The weight issue
A couple of years ago, I decided to change my life. I have always been a little overweight, actually depending of the time moving from obese, morbidly obese or just overweight on the BMI scale. I went on a very drastic diet called Lighter Life. On that diet, you only drink shakes for 12 weeks […]The exam
Like 15,000 other victims I took the mismanaged and poorly organised Japanese Proficiency Test last December but this is not only a test of Japanese Language but also a test of patience. I’ve no gripe with the test itself. It’s that the breaks are too long, it’s once a year, the results take too long, […]The rubbish problem
Have you noticed when you come to Japan that everything you buy in the shop is packed for you nicely? Even chewing gums in a packet are individually wrapped!But this mountain of packaging material needs to be disposed off. Everything is therefore recycled.In Europe we are at the infancy of recycling, here in Japan all […]