HUGH CULVER
Author, Speaker, Coach
Why I Lost My Motivation For Work and What I Did Instead
When I was 15 years old my whole world changed. My older brother Dan, fresh back from his second year of whitewater raft guiding in Northern British Columbia had started his own company. He wanted my help. My first job job was painting our newly fabricated rafts in...
Why you’re frustrated, confused and stuck plus one fast way to make it better
Maybe it’s the colder Fall weather or the state of your bank account, but you’re feeling frustrated, confused and stuck. Don’t worry you have lots of company AND there is a way out. In this post I’ll share one nifty way to get out of a funk, but before I do let’s take...
Why you need to be more thankful (even when you aren’t)
It’s easy to be like Eeyore. Just look around you. People constantly make selfish choices, are hurtful, deceitful, conniving, and manipulative. Ya gotta love ‘em! “Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt.”...
Sometimes your problem is a business in disguise (mine was)
Sometimes our problems are a business in disguise. It happened to me. Last year I was dutifully writing every week to you, dear reader. And loving it. There is something wonderfully scary and exciting about constructing 1,000 words, or so, and launching it out to the...
Why it’s Time You Started Teaching Online
I grew up with a pretty limited view on the world. Men went to work, women raised our children and businesses were run from offices. Safe to say I was wrong on all three accounts. When I entered the world of teaching, first at a university, then later with corporate...
Why Teaching Makes You More Valuable
When I was a boy I often felt incompetent. My Dad could diagnose, fix and build anything. And he did. Mostly I got to watch or sand a block of wood. Poor me. It wasn’t until I started teaching, that I understood what competence felt like. I started by teaching people...
How You can Learn to Read Faster in Just 10 Minutes
I took a speed-reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. -Woody Allen How do you read a book? Are you a ‘skimmer’, flying through the pages, gleaning only what is valuable for you? Are you a ‘starter’—slowly reading each word for...