What Have Been The Best Days of Your Life?
Morning Storm at Sunrise When I ask this question all sorts of events and memories may come flooding back to you. However, Mark Twain had an interesting take on this question … The 2 most important...
View ArticleMost of Us Live in a Box
Surfs Up at Coolangatta I was at a Professional Speaker Retreat recently and one of my colleagues shared a great insight with the group … Most of us live in a box and the instructions to get out of the...
View ArticleYou Get What You Think You Deserve
Cooly Rocks - Very Cool Thunderbird You cannot out-dream your level of self esteem. The ability to achieve more of your potential is in direct comparison to whether you believe you are worthy of that...
View ArticleWhat is Your Global View of You?
Keep On Walking - The Surf Is Better Ahead All of us have beliefs that can either lift us up or box us in from achieving our real potential. These limiting beliefs, can often have us starting a...
View ArticleExcellence is a Habit
Aristotle so elegantly put it when he said … We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. What habit is holding you back from being the best you, you can be? What habit...
View ArticleDo You Leave Room for the Work You Love To Do?
Keep Your Flame Burning In our lives there tends to be work or tasks we have to do, want to do and love to do. However all too often the work we love to do gets put to the bottom of the pile. We put...
View ArticleDon’t Surrender Your Dreams
Keeping a Lookout I read a great quote from Mark McGuinness, who wrote a chapter for a book titled Manage Your Day To Day: Build Your Routine and Find Your Focus … It’s better to disappoint a few...
View ArticleWhat is one of the Biggest Lifetime Addictions?
Is it Drugs? Alcohol? Cigarettes? What about AVOIDANCE? How often do you put off, wait until the right moment or look for the perfect time before you take that first step? What are you avoiding in your...
View ArticleNothing Beats Starting
Every Flower Tells a Story The film maker Stanley Kubrick (Spartacus, Clockwork Orange, The Shining) gave this advice to aspiring filmmakers … Get hold of a camera and make a movie of any kind at all....
View ArticleHave You Suffered from Goal Fatigue?
Nothing Beats Fresh Fruit Sometimes if you have been a high achiever you have set and achieved so many goals that you burnt out. When you think of achieving or even setting another goal you just feel...
View ArticlePlay The Role or Be The Role
Great Beach Ute I think that we can all be great pretenders from time to time. We say the right things, act the right way and position ourselves in such a way that we are presented to others in the...
View ArticleGive Yourself Permission
Eiffel Tower - Paris I don’t think we give ourselves enough permission to fail, succeed, change, to enjoy, to love or to stop. I know in my own life I have to be so conscious to enjoy the moment right...
View ArticleFocus on It But Don’t Sweat On It
There is a time to focus on the goal and then once we have it crystal clear in our mind and heart, we need to let it go and channel our energy into the action that takes us closer to our desired...
View ArticleEveryone Wants to Be Valued
Locks on The Love Bridge in Paris One of the things that plugged me in a few years ago was about being RESPECTED. Whether that was my skills or expertise or knowledge, if I didn’t feel respected that...
View ArticleSuccess is the Best Come Back
Parisian Street at Night There will always be doubters. It could be people you know really well, people who you meet or people who you work with every day. People who give you that look that doesn’t...
View ArticleYour Expectation is Like a Muscle
Golden Glow of the Morning Sun I was in a presentation recently and the presenter asked the question … What are you doing to strengthen your expectation? As you know you can have all types of...
View ArticleStaged Goal Setting
Early Morning Walk All too often we focus on the long term goal and when our achievement is below our expectation, we can become disappointed in our progress. So my suggestion is simple … Clarify your...
View ArticleUnconscious Sabotage
My Brother Campdrafting at Dalby, Queensland The key is to take the unconscious and turn it into an awareness and be conscious of what we do that stops us from achieving. The best way to do this is to...
View ArticleThree Achievements = Circuit Breaker
What happens when you don’t feel like things are progressing as fast as you want? In actual fact, what if you don’t feel like you are achieving at all and you feel like the world is against you? Well I...
View ArticleSomething Must Change
Leader of Pack - Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast I came across this great quote recently … If you wanted something you’ve never had, then you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. I am not sure if you...
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