Commentary, opinions, and personal views with MSP Columnist, Dawn Bates
When we look at how humanity has evolved from the early days of discovering fire, to the ability to transplant organs from one person to another, each step of the evolutionary process has happened because someone chooses to challenge the narrative of the day. In today’s world of people opting…
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How many of you have played ‘buzzword bingo’ in the boardroom? You know the game, the one made up of every latest word and phrase better suited to the corporate collection of car bumper stickers. In the last decade words such as ‘authenticity’ and ‘authentic self’ have been right up…
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Writing a book can be a lonely and daunting task, especially when every man and his dog has an opinion on how and what your book should be about. Then there is the how you are going to find the time to write it, how to structure the ideas dancing…
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Food, the stuff of dreams and nightmares, and the topic of one of my up-and-coming books. Now we could ask if the world needs yet another book on food, and with the amount of celebrity food books out there, which really do not add anything new to the market, I…
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Who would have thought a brightly coloured little square of paper could have such an impact on someone’s life, or on the lives of so many people around the world? And yet when I look up from my computer screen I am met with a rainbow of these coloured squares…
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And then I fell in love with life all over again. Sometimes we set off on a path, and before we know it, the success it brings has other people rolling out the red carpet, with invitations coming from every which way to appear in the media and be the…
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Looking down at his face, I had this calmness wash over me. Everything started slowing down and I the noise around us disappeared. Sounds like the perfect wistful gaze into a romantic partners eyes, right? Wrong. I had never met this man before, and here he was turning blue, choking…
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Taking back control can mean a plethora of different things depending on who we are, where we were raised and the situation surrounding the control. At the moment with the fear that grips so many people around the world, there are a lot of people doing their absolute best to…
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In last month’s article I wrote about reviews and how celebrating mediocrity needs an ending putting to it, if we are wanting to become more evolved human beings. This month I was going to talk about how as a single person I feel it is about time the hospitality industry…
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Whether it is a competition, a restaurant review or feedback on our businesses, reviews and feedback are all part and parcel of the growth journey to greatness. Those of us with a growth mindset look forward to receiving feedback and reviews, no matter the rating we get. Why? Because it…
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