I spent last weekend with my family celebrating my niece’s 17th birthday. I’d been looking forward to this weekend for ages because I deeply value family time…plus I was looking forward to spoiling the girls! We arrived at our family holiday home on Friday and my sister and her family arrived on the Saturday morning.…
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Last weekend was a big deal for my family, a VERY big deal! Tessa, my niece was in her school production of Matilda and she played Matilda!! Once a year her school, Penrhos College, puts on a spectacular show and having seen quite a few of them over the years, I must say they really do rival what…
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Being saved is easy. Being saved conserves your energy. Being saved means that you hand your power over to someone else to get you from where you are to where you want to be, either emotionally, mentally or physically. Now, if the building is on fire, I am more than happy to hand over my…
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Yes, I can hear the collective gasp from here! And I acknowledge that it’s a pretty bold statement. Yet I believe it to be completely true. Let me start by clarifying what I mean when I say selfishness. I don’t mean the “stuff everyone else, it’s all about me and what I want” type of selfishness.…
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“Get down get down – or I’ll blow your head off!!! Do what I say and you won’t get hurt!” That’s kind of how I imagine a hijacking situation to go. There is some crazed man (bit sexist I know, but the majority of hijackers are indeed men) wielding a gun, yelling threats, getting everyone…
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This last week a prospective coaching client asked me what is one powerful belief I live my life by. Firstly, I must say, what an outstanding question to ask someone who you are considering employing to coach and guide you! My answer: we are 100% responsible for exactly where we are right now in our life. Just…
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I am an addict! Yep – a hardcore, long term addict, and my addiction is books. I am one of those people who experiences a dopamine hit when I get home and there is a package from the bookstore on my doorstep with my latest purchase. I eagerly rip open the parcel and will often sit…
Read MoreI was in the Sydney CBD a few weeks ago waiting for my friend. It was Friday afternoon and I was meeting him at the Town Hall so we could look at the shops for an hour before heading home. The streets were busy with a kaleidoscope of humanity – people rushing here and there,…
Read MoreSo you want things to be different. You have had enough of the status quo. You look back and realise that you have been living the same year over and over again: nothing seems to ever really change and you feel frustrated and disillusioned. What if there were some key pieces of information that, once…
Read MoreOver the last weekend I was in Singapore with an amazing bunch of people “crewing” at a Tony Robbins event called Unleash the Power Within. It was a four day marathon and very life-changing for most of the people in the room. In this particular room there were over 12,000 participants from 32 countries and I…
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