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
Celebrating Diversity
It’s so appropriate that I’m writing this article for you on a trip to Singapore. It is such a culturally diverse country, with influences from all over Asia – Malaysia, China, India, Singapore itself as well as the UK, Australia and the US as well as all the other people…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
Changes and Opportunities
I was speaking to a friend the other day and she was asking how I was doing in setting up in business all over again in Australia. I was saying that it is always easier the second time round, however I had a lot of work to do establishing myself…Read More
The Skill of Delegation – Part 2
Who should we delegate to? I’m going to take this in two steps. The first is when you are just beginning to delegate or have never delegated before and the second is the use of delegation for development, when delegation is used widely already in your team. Step one –…Read More
The Skill of Delegation – Part 1
I was asked to cover this subject by one of our readers and as it is such a big area to discuss I will run it over the next 2 months. Whether you are running your own business or you lead a team, your results come mainly from the activity…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