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Let’s Celebrate

Last weekend Canberra celebrated her 100th birthday with a weekend of festivities and activities to inspire and delight all ages.  Celebration happens across the world for lots of different reasons.  In the western world we follow the Gregorian calendar and

Posted in On Happiness

Mental Rehearsal – Creating in Advance

I received an email today from James Nikolaidis from hrmweb.com.au, a star graduate of our Executive Intelligence program. He sent me through today’s Seth Godin’s blog on mental rehearsal saying that it clearly reminded him of what he had learnt

Posted in On Success

Attitude… is Everything!

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama Last week I

Posted in On Success

Removing Beliefs That Hold Us back

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humour, play no jokes, and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image” Robert Collier (1885-1950) Motivational author     A wise monk was sitting, meditating, by the side

Posted in On Running Your Brain

Embracing Failure

All successful people know that failure is a necessary part of growth and innovation. From failure comes feedback and from feedback comes learning, iteration, adaptation and building new conceptual and physical models. In our society failure is often not tolerated

Posted in On Success

Conscious Leadership

This month I have found myself reflecting on a range of complex professional situations from a “theatre in action” perspective. Each of these situations has required me to grow.  I am simultaneously feeling challenged, inspired and excited by the complexity,

Posted in On Leadership

Musings from the Mind and It’s Potential Conference

This year’s Mind and Its Potential Conference was a delightful smorgasbord of speakers and researchers who shared their ideas, thoughts and findings with us. Here are some of their key messages…   Tony Buzan – There are an infinite number

Posted in On Balance

Respect, Simplicity and Beauty

As I am writing this newsletter I am sitting at Narita airport in Tokyo after having spent 2 weeks here in Japan. This is my first visit to Japan and I thought I would reflect on some of my observations

Posted in On Happiness

Intent- Aligning for 2015

Recently I ran an event with the AFP Women’s Network for International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day has been running since 1908 and celebrates the accomplishments of women’s equality around the world.   At the event we had 3 guest

Posted in On Self Organisation

Mindfulness Practice

We have somewhere between 60,000 and 890,000 thoughts a day! Most of those thoughts are not useful but rather a distraction.  Distraction is our biggest timewaster.  It takes us away from focusing on what is most important to us.  Thoughts

Posted in On Balance