Start the year as you mean to go on. I would ask of you to commit yourself to this one thing this year: more time out just for YOU. The daily grind of emails, meetings, deadlines and finance can unquestionably drain your creativity. One of the brilliant things about the…Read More
New Year Resolutions – How to Make Them Stick!
At this time of year, we are all looking at how we can better our lives. For many, the biggest commitment we start with is the New Year’s resolution. Have you noticed that sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t? Why is that? Sometimes they don’t work because we didn’t…Read More
Honesty…is it really that simple?
Now here’s the biggie… honesty, what do you believe it to be for you? Maybe when we first think of the word honesty, we think of staying true, not telling lies, integrity or maybe you have your own take on honesty. You see that is part of the problem… we…Read More
How We View The Moment?
I’m sharing another personal moment with you in this second article. Every so often I share an email update with friends and family on how our lives are progressing on our new adopted country. In my latest update – which was a long one as I was covering two months…Read More
To Do Or Not To Do? That Is The Question!
I’d like to share an experience I had recently as an example of what we deal with many, many times in our lives – dilemmas that we create in our own heads through self-talk. Get the self-talk right and it’s bliss; get it wrong and it can be miserable and…Read More
Taming Those Insecurities
I was out having a meal the other night with a group of people that I had just met. To begin with there were five of us in the Turkish restaurant waiting for one more to turn up. We were all chatting, laughing and asking each other questions to find…Read More
Making Mistakes – Service Providers
In this part we will concentrate on the mistakes made by some service providers (SP) with the customer’s point of view in mind. Whether we are selling a product or service we all have internal and external customers and need to serve them well if we want return business and…Read More
Making Mistakes – Customers
This article and the next are borne out of both my own mistake and the mistakes made by a service company. Let’s deal with my own mistake first As we (Paul and I) were in a stressful and frustrating situation, with our lives on hold and only waiting for one…Read More
Knowledge Is Power
I’m sure you have heard this phrase many times. It is very true! Each time we take on something new to us, there are many others who have already been through the experience and who we can learn from. People we know, others who have written about the area, experts…Read More
Positive Belief – The Practicalities
A Quick Mention On Positive Belief As Bruce Lipton talks about in his book, The Biology of Belief, the conscious and subconscious are interdependent, the conscious mind is creative and able to summon up positive thought, whereas the subconscious is strictly habitual and works through our instinct and life learning…Read More