Personal Development

Success is …

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful” Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965 Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure” Earl Wilson, 1907- Newspaper columnist “The key to success is to focus … Read more

Coach yourself

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Here’s a wonderful animation which makes you think of the five big questions that will get you ahead. http://www.fivebigquestions.com/swf/the_5.75_questions07.07.27.swf what’s going well for you? what are you trying to ignore? what’s boring you? how do you want to be remembered? who do you love? So, what next?

Change .. or not?

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Read my stars today so thanks to Jonathon Recamier for prompting this post. As always, Jonathon had oblique and cryptic references – this time, to leopards and caterpillars. It got me thinking. In the effort to ‘develop’ ourselves ought we to subscribe to the view that (a) a leopard cannot change its spots, or (b) … Read more

So, where were you going???

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A lot of people become confused. Lose their way. Get fatigued with all the struggling. End up doing nothing even though they had grand plans. Why is that? The Mad Hatter summed it up in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. “If you don’t know where you’re going it doesn’t matter much how you get … Read more

Communicate

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Communication is the grease of life. If we fail to communicate, or communicate ineffectually, our relationships suffer, our quality drops and our results don’t meet expectations. Yet we communicate every day in every way. We have more devices to communicate with then ever and these speed up the process. So, how come ‘we’ are notoriously … Read more

Find Your Purpose? Hmmm….

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I recently did an experiential exercise in ‘finding your purpose’. I took far longer than I realised – time passed quickly as I was patting down walls and chairs, grovelling along a gritty grubby floor, talking aloud as I hit yet another obstacle, frustrated myself and talked myself out of giving up, analysed how this … Read more

Surrender to your spirit

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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it – so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it! Ralph Waldo Emerson. Spirit knows no lack or limitation. When you trust with all your spirit, heart and soul, your faith is usually … Read more

Create with powerful purpose

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Be committed. Have a compelling reason for your goal – what will you or others get out of it? Focus your attention on what you want. A wishful thought is only a good intention until you put action in place. Take decisive action as if you could not fail. Know that the actions you take … Read more