In your personal life or business life, you may need to change the way you are approaching things if you want to take big steps forward. In fact, if you are not making progress in leaps and bounds then it is time to embrace the science of the quantum leap. Simply you can achieve more... Continue Reading →
Find your Motivation then use SMART goals to succeed
Once you have defined what motivates you through working through what you want to achieve in your life, and understanding where you are in terms of your all-around balance between Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual desires the ability to set goals and make plans to achieve them is KEY to success. Goal-setting will do more... Continue Reading →
Personal development on a budget #3
The next book I recommend you invest in if you are truly interested in developing your personal skills - The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference ... Malcolm has written a great guide on 'how little things can make a big difference'. In this book, you understand more... Continue Reading →
There are Winners and Learners, nothing else.
If there is one blog I hope my children (and eventually my grandchildren) read I hope it is this one. Growing up, developing skills comes from experience and learning. The more we do of both, the quicker we become more proficient at whatever we wish to do. At times, we learn that something is not... Continue Reading →
Personal Development on a budget #2
Once you understand that whatever your age you should be learning, keeping your mind active becomes even more crucial as we grow older. Committing to personal development will help you stay young and of course provide you with new skills and awareness. The second book I recommend everyone should purchase and have in their personal... Continue Reading →
Personal Development on a budget #1
Too many people do not start down the path of investing in their own personal development as they perceive it to be too expense. Or they feel they know it all or are too old to get into this personal development malarky... Lesson one - we are never too old and we should always be... Continue Reading →
What if I don’t know what I want to do for a career?
Firstly, don't let yourself stress about this. In my experience, most people do not actually know what they want as a career. It makes you no better or poorer than those who do. What's important is what you want to get out of your life. There are many coaches who would tell you to keep... Continue Reading →
Your biggest battle…
Are you winning the most important battle you need to win, the first stage is to start understanding you are already on the battlefield? Most of you reading this possibly already know where I am going with this subject. However, it is one thing to realise our biggest battle will always be with ourselves, and... Continue Reading →
The future of recruitment – update Feb 2017
The Problem with today... HR Managers try to stay up to date with the latest HR trends but seem to struggle to find ways to sell and create truly diverse teams within their organisation. Yet they are the very people who have put in place the very systems and processes which make this even harder.... Continue Reading →
Becoming World Class – 10,000 Hours?
The Christmas / New Year period is a great time to relax and reflect especially here in New Zealand where most of the country (other than the hospitality, farming and retail industries) take a well-earned collective rest. It is also the time I recharge my batteries and really think about my personal plan and what activity... Continue Reading →