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How to Turn your Dreams Into Reality
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”. If you are familiar with my work, you know that I believe that you’ve got to dream big to achieve in this world – you have to have a vision – and dreams offer us true inspiration. However
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How to Turn Your Knowledge Into a Thriving Business
According to the latest statistics unemployment fell to 5.6% in July, but dig a little deeper and the figures reveal that 20,300 full-time positions were lost last month. The only reason unemployment appeared to go down was because more part-time positions were created.The truth is that there is no such thing as job security anymore
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How to build a large, engaged tribe for your business
A tribe is another word for community, or more accurately a community of your supporters. Regardless of whether you are in business, volunteer for a charity or are keen to promote a cause – you need a tribe. But how do you go about building a big community? There are a few basic rules I
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How to Become an Authority in Your Industry
If you are a florist, vet, personal coach or stylist and you want to grow your business, it pays to establish yourself as an authority in your industry. Ultimately you want to establish yourself as the authority in the industry. Alternatively you may have a passion that you’d like to make profitable, again you will
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How to Choose a Mentor to Succeed
In life, there are two key ways that people learn – from making mistakes and being taught by a mentor. Having a mentor is of course the less painful way of gaining knowledge and that’s what I want to write about today. However, if you’ve made a mistake recently, regardless of whether it’s a big
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The Do’s and Don’ts When Supporting a Friend in Crisis
My philosophy about life is that you are either just about to enter a crisis or you are just leaving one. It’s rarely ever smooth sailing. Have you ever supported a close friend going through a crisis? I’m eternally grateful to the friends who supported me through the tough times in my life, and if
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The 8 Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make with Staff
According to the Seek website, about 25% of Australians on the market for a new job are disillusioned with their existing workplace, and too often indentify a bad boss as the reason they want to leave. Do you manage people in a workplace? Do you think you do it well? Alternatively, have you worked in
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How to Make a Full Time Living Helping and Empowering People
Do you have what it takes to empower and inspire people? Have you considered a career in the self-improvement industry? With the rise of the internet, it is easier than ever before to help people turn their lives around and become stronger individuals. People are willing to invest in learning how to enhance their lives. If
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How Money Can Buy Happiness
I was very interested to read about the results of a new study that found money can buy you happiness – if you spend your money creating more free time! If you have followed my work over the years, you’ll know that I’m determined to change people’s attitudes towards money. Too many people have failed
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How to Find Joy in Dull, Mundane Yet Essential Daily Tasks
You may have learnt from experience that it is hard to excel at something you dislike. And it is also highly unlikely that you are going to make good money from doing a job you dislike. I believe that if you don’t love what you do then you need to find something else however the
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The Importance of Overcoming Personal Biases and Prejudices
Have your heard of that funny saying, “I’m not prejudice, I hate everyone!” It means that I’m not biased against any social or ethic group, I look at all of humanity with disdain. It’s not a very healthy way to live! Do you have any prejudices?When my parents first came to Australia after the Second
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How to Stop Your Feelings From Over-Riding Logic
The Prefrontal Cortex versus The Limbic SystemI learnt something about the human brain recently. From an evolution standpoint, the limbic system, which controls emotion, came first. The prefrontal cortex, which controls reasoning, didn’t develop until later. So it makes sense that people’s first reaction to challenging situations is emotional and the rational response follows. For
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