Debating Scotland's future on BBC Scotland's Riddoch Questions

Yesterday, a panel discussion about the budget, the recession and Scotland's future was broadcast on BBC Scotland.

On the panel was the Labour minister Andy Kerr, Lubina Kerr from a health-focused social enterprise, Lawrie Russell of the WISE Group and myself.

There were some tricky questions from the live audience and perhaps some good ideas came from the discussion.  

You can have a listen here.

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Talking about motivation on BBC Scotland...

I'm becoming something of a regular on BBC Scotland these days.

You can listen to a nice little chat we had this morning about motivation and achieving what you want in life here. . The part where i'm nattering is about fifteen minutes in.

I think that the entrepreneur's ability to motivate themselves to get up every morning and bash on with their idea is one of the big factors that separates the ideas that work from the ones that don't. It took Dyson hundreds of attempts at building the dual cyclone before he eventually came up with his now world famous vacuum cleaner. A lot of people wouldn't have been able to motivate themselves to get up every day and think about vacuum cleaners.

I've managed to motivate myself to get up every morning for almost six years and think about jam; mostly because I love the stuff and also since I have been able to always think in terms of where i'm aiming to get in the long run. It doesn't matter if today doesn't work out too good, as long as everything on the whole is moving towards where I want to go; transforming the world of jam!