by damien | Nov 27, 2013 | News, SMACHT
Yesterday I was almost assaulted by one of our greatest Smachters – Warren Healy of myclubfinances.com fame – as he emerged from the former Lydon’s Cafe in Shop Street. ‘Did you read about how Richie McCaw became a ‘Great All Black’...
by damien | Oct 10, 2013 | News, SMACHT
Showing Up. ‘80% of success in life is showing up’ Woody Allen ‘Smacht’ is the wonderful Irish word for showing up, particularly when you don’t feel like it. Winners don’t show up only when they’re strong and powerful and...
by damien | Oct 2, 2013 | News, SMACHT
When I was growing up in the west of Ireland you rarely heard tell of the existence of a Professor or a Psychologist, or a Performance Coach for that matter. They would for the most part have been rendered superfluous on account of the wisdom and intuition and...
by damien | Sep 25, 2013 | News, SMACHT
All the great minds and scribes are agreed on one elemental component of success. You become like those you associate with. In Connemara, they’ll tell you that ‘aithníon cíaróg cíaróg eile.’ Scientists will...
by damien | Sep 18, 2013 | News, SMACHT
It had taken me all of three years to train my Labrador not to retrieve the fowl oven ready. And today, for the first time, the Smácht had paid off. In a clump of heather, beneath a sheer cliff face in the Burren, he...
by damien | Sep 6, 2013 | News, SMACHT
AN OBITUARY PRINTED IN THE LONDON TIMES…… ABSOLUTELY DEAD BRILLIANT!!! Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend. Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost...
