Kiaran Finn Life Matters BLOG

Fearing disapproval is a mugs game. It will handbrake your business, your life. Playing it safe with eyes always fixed on the safety net instead of the VISION is not how breakthroughs show up. Make decisions and let the market gravitate toward or away from you.  Declare the world is round in an eco-system where this is absurd. Embrace your #outlier status and risk failure. Show up! Ask for what you want. offer your value. Shift your fulcrum and find new #tipping points. There's more content out there than you can consume in a million lifetimes. More information is NOT the key to your success. Self belief (delusion to others), creative thinking (unpopular), and execution (risk of failure) gets my thumbs up! Connect on LINKEDIN if you like.

Be honest, are you a language snob? The first rule of communication is to be understood.  The layers and nuances thereafter are reflective of where we sit on the educational hierarchy.  I had a school teacher who was adamant that there were rigid black and white rules to pronunciation. Some of his crazy beliefs still permeate and I find myself becoming irritated when I hear a commentator pronounce advertisement the 'wrong' way. You can decide which of the two most obvious enunciations rock your world, but it serves to highlight the power of our biases regarding peer credibility. Elocution  was a thing during my youth, again another crazy notion, obviously in my opinion as every key stroke reflects my thoughts. The idea that an accent somehow confers a status that we buy into is a little puerile and yet.... Those of us over the age of 25 or perhaps 30 work ourselves into an internal hissy fit when we stumble onto forums where the lang...

Truth, Beliefs and Fairytales - It’s all Nonsense. All beliefs are fairy tales. All beliefs are cultural.  The universe doesn’t care what we believe; we occupy an infinitely minute moment in eternity and seem designed to search for meaning where there is none.  We have just enough intelligence to contemplate our filtered reality but not enough to ever know anything. On any scale of measurement fathomable by any human who’s ever lived our existence is impossible.  Go back two generations and our 2 parents and 4 grandparents had to conceive at the exact moment they did for us to exist. Travel back a mere 27 generations, or about 600 years, and the family tree exceeds 2500000.  Extending the nonsense of trying to grasp the odds of following this lineage back 4 billion years doesn’t scratch the surface. Our planet is one of innumerable billions in a galaxy that is one of billions in a universe that may itself be one of innumerable billions. 100 peo...