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Discovering Your Pathway to Prosperity
I’ve recently presented my Pathways to Prosperity retreat on the Gold Coast. These retreat are all about helping you prosper and bloom! Some would call it luck by design. I help people identify and use skills to enrich their lives. Last month I really enjoyed looking at The Financial Review’s ‘Young Rich’ list for 2017.
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Are You a Team Player or a Lone Wolf?
In a recent blog, I wrote about the struggles many creative people face when trying to work in a conventional job and with a team. Many creative types opt out of conventional jobs to start their own companies. Today I want to look at the flipside of the coin. Perhaps you have your own business
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Why Creative People Struggle to Work in Conventional Jobs
I share a mutual friend with an elderly Melbourne artist of some repute. She has won a number of awards and taught art at a big art college. Her love of art first began at school, but she didn’t make a career out of art until she was middle-aged. What prompted her to pursue art
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How to Enjoy Christmas Parties as an Introvert
Is your calendar already filling up with social bookings for the month of December? How many parties will you go to? I have to admit that in previous years I’ve gone to so many parties that I’ve suffered socialising fatigue! My face ached from smiling; my hand was numb from handshakes. By December 25 I
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How Gratitude Can Improve Your Health
In my last blog, I wrote about the importance of being grateful given that it is November and Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of this month in the United States. We don’t have a dedicated day to count our blessings in Australia, which is unfortunate, because I firmly believe in the benefits of
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What Does it Mean to Be Thankful and Why You Should Be?
The United States recently celebrated Thanksgiving Day. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the US and I’ve always been fascinated by this American holiday – a day to be grateful of all your blessings. We don’t have such a day in Australia. I think a lot of us often concentrate on what is
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How to Identify Your Personality Blind Spots and Make Real Changes
What are Blind Spots?If you drive, you no doubt have had the experience of being about to change lanes only to discover that there is another vehicle just behind you in that lane which you didn’t see. The reason you didn’t see it was because the car was in your blind spot. The Cambridge Dictionary
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10 Ways to Come Across as Confident, Not Conceited
I know a German man in Australia who is often perceived as arrogant, but I don’t think he is arrogant. He is an efficient character and very task focussed. When he is working on a project he is totally engrossed and will not notice if you are unhappy, crying or even on fire! Hence people
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Does Attitude or Ability Determine Your Success?
I noticed the other morning that a breakfast television show was running a segment on whether your future is determined by your ability or your outlook. You know that I am going to say – outlook or mindset will ultimately decide your future! However, it is also true that other factors can have influence over
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How Pain Gets Triggered and How to Eliminate It
Pain according to Jane FullerRecently I came across a truly inspirational quote from British film producer, Jane Fuller – ‘Pain can only be triggered by another if there is pain inside you’. Jane is indeed a woman of many talents. As well as running an award-winning film production company in London, she writes for British
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How to Easily Overcome Your Fear of Selling
I hate the expression – ’the hard sell’. ‘He gave me the hard sell’ means you’ve been heavied, harassed and harangued by a salesman. But anyone who’s ever had a business knows that the best salespeople aren’t heavy-handed or aggressive. Instead they have a quality product and the courage to market that product honestly and
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How to Effectively Listen and Learn
In my last blog, I wrote about people pretending to hear us or tuning out and living in their own world. There are tell-tale signs to look out which indicate whether a person is giving you their full attention or faking it. Today I want to flip the coin, and look at how to be
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