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Your Hour of Power – the one habit that will transform your life!
A very happy and joyous New Year to you all. At the start of this New Year I want to share with you a very powerful habit that is practised by every peak-performer I know and that I have read about or studied, such as Oprah Winfrey, Anthony Robbins, Barrack Obama, the...
Character – The Irreplaceable Virtue in Leadership
Leaders are critical to any organisation. Mistakes made at the leadership level impact everyone. It has been said that a leader has three sources of influence i.e. authority of office, knowledge and character. Of the three sources, character has the greatest...
An attitude of gratitude
In a world where there is so much negativity, it is very easy to focus on all the things going wrong in our lives. Sensationalism and negativity sells and it's easy to get wrapped up in the negative media hype. We don't set out to have that focus, of course, this is...
Yes, you CAN change!
“Do you like change?” I start so many of my personal mastery workshops with this question, and have never received an indifferent response. Delegates either indicate that they love change or that they hate it… I am however of the opinion that no normal person loves...
Developing adaptive leadership
It has been said that more change has taken place in the last five years than in the previous five thous and years. This rapid rate of change has proven to be quite a challenge for leadership in the 21st century. The environment leaders currently face has been...
The Human Iceberg
That is only the tip of the Iceberg! Everyone underst ands what you mean when you use this phrase. It refers to the fact that things are not always what they seem. There is a lot more to it than meets the eye. You must look deeper, do some homework, some research, and...
5 Reasons your team is not achieving results
It's the start of a new year. Your team has created a strategy and you've plotted the way forward into the dusty, uncertain future. Your team is good at this. Leaders are generally fantastic at strategy. We're great at coming up with new ideas. Where we come short is...
In search of greatness
“Perfection is a term that humans will never achieve a consensus on, because it exists mainly in our imaginations.” This is the opinion of Kerri Strug who won a bronze in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and gold in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. John C Maxwell says that to...
14 Steps to success
Regardless of how old you are, where you live, or what your career goals are, more than likely your ultimate goals in life are to be happy and successful. The key to being successful is more than just having money and making your mark. It is identifying your passions,...
The need to be understood
The deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they really are – a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned (at least for now) individual. People won’t expose their soft centers unless they feel genuine...
What is your “What now” – Accepting responsibility
Have you ever asked yourself the question: “Why does anything happen to anyone?” I know this is a confusing question - Let me elaborate... What causes things to happen in our lives... no, not what is the reason why things happen to us; but rather, what causes things...
The power of laser focus
At no time in the history of the world has change taken place at a more rapid pace than now. It has been estimated that more change has taken place in the last decade than in the past 5000 years. We are busier than ever before. We are required to do more in less time...