As a child, I read Richie Rich comics. Richie was fabulously wealthy, with his personal butler, Cadbury, his robotic maid, Irona, and an endless collection of gadgets, toys and exotic presents.
The tag line of Richie Rich always fascinated me, though, because it sounded so contradictory…
“The Poor Little Rich Boy”We are all familiar with the […]

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At a wedding reception last week, I met many professional colleagues.
The banter was conventional, predictable, ‘doctor speak’.
Only a few knew about my online persona, and referred to it sparingly,
often with a snide smile or quiet wink twixt themselves.
Because I am different.
Unfamiliar, unusual, unlike what they are used to.
It doesn’t bother me these days. I […]

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“I cried because I had no shoes…
Until I saw a man with no feet”
So much about being a winner is to do with how you think.
We can view a situation, circumstance or event and color it
any way we wish - and though it objectively is the same, the
perspective we give it can differ.
A glass that […]

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Last night, I went to bed with a smile on my face.
Because of Mary’s email.
I have lovely friends around the world. Many I’ve met through my email list. Some are very young. And some, like Grandpa Bill, are in their mid-eighties.
One of the nicest, warmest, kindest people I’ve got to know over […]

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Passion, Purpose and Persistence
The 3 P’s can crown the result of any venture with glory.
Combined with a community or tribe, and energized by a common, shared set of values, goals and principles, their power becomes magnified many times.
Change - useful, meaningful change - becomes not just possible. It becomes inevitable.
You are a part of […]

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What I’ve shared with you over the course of this event intially started out as a series of notes for a new book.
You have read the kernel of it. What it needs is for parts to be fleshed out and expanded, as well as a few more ‘case studies’ from guest contributors.
Here’s what I’m […]

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The insights I’ve shared with you are mainly self-realized. In the course of an amazing, tiring, often scary and even agonizingly painful journey as fund raiser and CHD evangelist.
The 3 P’s have fuelled and sustained my decade long effort to help fund heart operations for under-privileged Indian children who have no chance of affording […]

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I’ve poured out my heart, sharing my thoughts, views and opinions about passion, purpose and persistence, and about how it has played a central role in my work with children fighting congenital heart disease.
Now it’s your turn to let me know what YOU think.
Did you find the content I shared interesting or useful?
Do you agree […]

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I’ll try and put it all into a nutshell.
PASSION is what underlies every great venture… in business, in charity, in love, and in life.
It fuels and energizes you to reach greater heights than you ever imagined possible. It is transmitted to others in your sphere of influence. It spreads and transforms everyone it […]

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Blind adherence to any dictum is not good sense.
Persistence is good. But it also has to be purposeful.
If sticking on with what you’re doing is bringing no one any benefit, but is instead harming many, then going on just for the sake of being persistent isn’t quite right.
Unless there is a purpose behind your […]

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