“What’s in a name?” is what Shakespeare wrote. A lot! Especially if this person is an important customer or a productive co-worker. Using someone’s name creates a rapport and intimacy with that person. Names are important – we need to try and remember them.

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Purpose is about having meaning. A sense that what you are doing comes from a place deep in your heart. It is about doing something you believe in – something you want to do, with all your being. But purpose is both a privilege and a curse. A true purpose most often becomes an obsession and it keeps your mind racing until the small hours each and every night. There is no switching off from a calling.

Most people do not think about this word. And that is not good or bad. In my experience, the majority of people are trying to make a living, and balance the budget, and one has to respect that. Paying the rent is important. Feeding your family is fundamental. But sometimes, people get excited about something. A vision that keeps them bouncing off the walls. An excitement that they can’t let go of. And sometimes this vision, coupled with intense work, leads to glory, and sometimes it does not. I don’t believe that people with a sense of purpose ever really considered that it could lead them to wealth. There was an itch and it needed to be scratched. The motivation was all about climbing that mountain. Making a difference, adding something to the world, doing what you believe in. And when one does it well, and when luck shines on you, then yes, the result could be financially rewarding.

I don’t think one wakes up and goes “How do I find a purpose?”. I think it just happens. But, there are ways to discover this sense. Finding one’s purpose is a journey of self-discovery, and it is not for everyone. And again, that is not good or bad. It takes a lot of strength to follow a dream.

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No matter how hard you work, how good you are, how smart you are, luck always plays a role in everything you do. In work, in health and in love. Without luck all bets are off.

There is luck that comes from above, and it is unexplainable. And then there is luck which we can influence. Being kind, in my view, makes you luckier. Being a misery generally seems to attract further misery, and there is no luck in that.

Gary Player once said that the more you practice the luckier you get. Yes, luck certainly does favour the persistent. There is no substitute in life for hard work. People who work hard generally are luckier than people who are lazy.

Bob Metcalfe, who founded the tech company 3Com, once said “I didn’t make money from inventing the Ethernet; I made money from waking up early in cheap hotels rooms all around the world.”

I could go on and on, quoting many famous people, who all said similar things. I like these quotes. They are spot on. Mr. Metcalfe’s comment in particular – he had to make the luck happen. Creating the Ethernet computer network was not enough. He still had to knock on doors and turn over every stone he could find. Knocking on doors makes you luckier – that I have learned over the past 30 years.

The American industrialist J. Paul Getty once said the secret to success was: “You wake up early, you work hard, and you find oil.” He hit the jackpot! Tomorrow you could get up in the morning, and find gold in your back yard, and the rest will be history. Of course, the more you dig, the more you have a chance to find the glory at the end of the rainbow. But one thing is for sure, if you dig for oil in the wrong place you are not going to find it.

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The thing about luck is being able to recognize it when it hits. If you dig for oil in a place where there is no oil then you will never have any luck. So, when you know something and you ignore it, then that is bad luck. And conversely, if you try take a product to market in a place where there is demand, well, then, you are in a with a chance. Luck is all about having a chance to win. And the more you try, the closer you will get to your realize your goal.

We live in an age of instant, ubiquitous connection. Never before has it been as quick and as easy to get hold of someone. Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Skype, FaceTime … who even needs to call anymore? Who even needs to meet, face to face, one to one, person to person?

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Coolfidence means just what it says. It’s a cool confidence, or a confident coolness. It’s a way of breaking the ice, kick-starting conversations, winning hearts and minds, capturing imaginations, building bridges and igniting sparks.

Coolfidence is a set of tools, a set of techniques, a set of opportunities and possibilities. What it isn’t, is a set of rules. We’re not a school, we’re a resource. We’re not an institute, we’re a movement. We’re not a lecture, we’re a conversation.

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