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Have You Disconnected Yourself From The World?
The Headphone GenerationEvery second person I see on the street usually wears earphones. What are they listening to? Why is it essential that they have to listen to something as they walk from their workplace to the bus stop or train station? Can’t they at least wait until they board the bus or train? I
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How to Dramatically Improve Your Listening and Communication Skills
Have you ever returned home to find the washing in the rain, the dinner uncooked or no milk in the fridge even though you asked your spouse or housemate to take in the washing/turn the oven on/buy milk and they agreed? And there you are shaking your head, insisting that your spouse or housemate even
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Easy Ways to Improve Your Health
Walking is a great form of exercise, especially if you are on the wrong side of 40 – well, I’m probably on the right side of 40. Being young can be tough! I changed my usual walk a few weeks back so I had to go up a steep hill. At first it was hard
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Why Most of Us are Unhappy and What to Do About It
Generation YI came across an engaging little website, written by one of America’s top bloggers recently, which argues that Generation Y is a pretty unhappy lot – more unhappy than previous generations. Generation Y are born between about 1977 to 1994, which means they are aged from about 23 to 40. Is that you, or
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How to be Inspired, and Inspire Others
The Brisbane business woman Therese Rein recently spoke at the State Library about her career and the company she founded, Ingeus. Her speech was truly inspiring and I want to share it with you. Therese is one of the richest women in Australia, but you may know her better as Australia’s former first lady and
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Are You an Avid People Pleaser?
Do you like to make other people happy? I like to make people happy. I like to give gifts to the people I love, and I try to be thoughtful. Sometimes I’ll arrange surprises. For example I’ll take a friend to a new place I know they’d like. But some people take pleasing others to
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Why Pampering is the Best Form of Self-care
Whenever I sit down to write a blog I think about what I can give to you – how I can help you to grow, prosper and become a better person. I try to encourage and inspire you. In recent weeks I’ve talked to you about coaching, overcoming your fears, being an effective marketer, growing
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Forget About Becoming a Leader – Why You Need to Be a Coach
When I was a kid in Sydney the term ‘coach’ was rarely used. I only really heard about ‘coaches’ in American films. They were the ones who trained the basketball team. Now coaches are everywhere. Every Australian team has a squad of coaches. Then there are life coaches and business coaches. How does ‘coaching’ differ
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The Top 10 Most Common Fears and How to Conquer Them
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about fear stopping people from following their dreams. It was great to see people posting up comments, and talking about how they’d broken free of their fears, but it got me thinking about fear in general. What are people afraid of? I started doing some research, looking at
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Should You Go Into Business With a Friend?
The Case of Nimble ActiveWearToday I read a great story on the Smart Company website about the two women behind the multi-million dollar clothing brand, Nimble ActiveWear. Katia Santilli and Vera Yan have been friends since they were 14. They met at school, but when they grew up Vera moved to Sydney while Katia went
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How to Recover from Ruin
A friend of mine has lost a lot of money. He went into business and it was a fine venture, but his business partner pulled the pin after just nine months and that has effectively bankrupted my friend. Today I want to write about recovering from financial loss, but much of what I write is
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How to Stop Burn Out
The late-great US basketball coach John Wooden once said, “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” Too many of us are being burnt out by our jobs. Companies seem to want more and more from their employees. Those European companies, which let their staff work six-hour shifts and take regular holidays,
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