Manifesto Musings

#133 – What’s Your Personal Manifesto?

Could I start by asking you three questions: What’s your middle name? What’s your favourite colour? What’s your personal manifesto? Can I guess that you found the first question very straight forward to answer. Even if you have no middle name, or if you have three middle names – your answer was clear and immediate.… Read More
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Our Seven Steps

We make the claim in our upcoming book, My Manifesto: a compassionate guide to reveal your best life, that the seven steps will minimise internal conflict; help you navigate life; build hope; raise your awareness of what is important to you; provide greater clarity in your life; uncover rich personal insights and assist you to… Read More
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Strengths Development

At my manifesto we are passionate about introducing individuals to the common language of character strengths. We think of character strengths as the positive human qualities that, when used effectually and morally, support us to bring good into our world. These universal tools support us to live a good life, and we view these strengths… Read More
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No Man Ever Steps In The Same River Twice

A client of my manifesto, when conversing on his personal manifesto, was prompted by our comment that a personal manifesto is both ‘stable and dynamic’, to offer this quote by Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man”.  When referring to… Read More
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For Whose Benefit?

Over the past month, several national and international leaders in the fields of psychology, leadership, coaching, or change management have kindly reviewed our manuscript. One such review arrived this week that contained the following sentences: “Authors Robinson and Wong take us through a gradual process, in accessible, yet significant steps, that enable any one of… Read More
Justin and I coached each other and co-created our individual personal manifestos when we were developing our initial concept for our my manifesto experiences. Even though we have since both written a current version when developing our book My Manifesto, I still love that version passionately and its phrases still dance around my head and… Read More
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Healthy Hardship

A central purpose of having a current, unique, and personal manifesto is not to be happy. This may surprise some of our readers, and please don’t think we have anything against being happy – we are big fans of this feeling. We are also delighted when many of our clients report increased levels of calmness,… Read More
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They Are the Wind Beneath Our Wings

We have written a great deal about what this my manifesto journey has meant to us. We now want to take this opportunity to write about the wonderful support and encouragement we have received from our roadtesters. This group of my manifesto mates have been there for us at every turn – nothing was too much… Read More
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Elephant or Goldfish?

In the Emmy award winning comedy TV series, Ted Lasso, there are many quotable quotes and powerful messages related to building culture, fostering belief, and nurturing passion. With the help of his trusty assistant, Coach Beard, Ted Lasso, a successful American college football coach, is appointed to manage a struggling English Premier League football team,… Read More