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Can’t stand sleeping

cartoon of three kids with one thinking it would be good to sleep standing up.

can’t stand sleeping

If you could master stand up sleeping with your eyes open that would be something.  I tried it once but fell into a pond.  There was a time when if you were spotted nodding off during a really boring lesson at school it was okay for the teacher to sneak up behind you and whack you on the back of your little nodding head with a volume of Moby Dick so the contents of your nose flew across the room.  A useful alternative would be to slap a huge steel ruler down on the desk creating a shock-wave strong enough to send you leaping high into the air. This was a time known as ‘the good old days’.

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made in the Moorlands     design and images ©Tom Tomkinson

Bang your gong

Cartoon stating 'bang your gong, blow your trumpet, get noticed!

bang your gong

When you need to promote your talents, the things you make or the great ideas you have, you may discover you lack the confidence you need to promote yourself.  You may not have an aptitude for networking or a taste for manipulating opportunities.  It’s not uncommon.

Many successful people work hard to overcome their natural reticence.  If the self-confidence you need is missing, you will need to do what they do: grit your teeth and learn to simulate it.  Let’s call it ‘acting’.  It takes hard work and dedication but it will provide you with a springboard to get you to where you want to be.

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made in the Moorlands     design and images ©Tom Tomkinson

Good plan today

Cartoon about business planning - 'better a good plan today than a perfect one tomorrow'

good plan today

There is a short distance between perfection and prevarication.  Between delaying a good plan for a marginally better one too late.   The best planners tread the line between perfection and timeliness but always deliver the best possible plan at exactly the right time.

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made in the Moorlands     design and images ©Tom Tomkinson