Father Knows Best — Here’s the Greatest Advice We Got From Our Dads My dad’s my hero. He’s loved me when I wasn’t lovable. He’s encouraged me when I needed encouragement. He’s challenged me. He’s supported me and has provided me with a guiding example. He has made me laugh, and is to this day…
be a better leader have a richer life If you think something’s missing from your day to day, here are some tips to get your zest for living back. Every one of us has been planted on this planet for a purpose. Not to simply suck in air, but to contribute something significant, whether it’s…
How To Grab Life By The Throat If you want to change your future, and yet continue to do what you have done in the past – right up to your present – you are sadly mistaken. In order to jolt yourself out of your complacency, and a future that will simply be a replay…
How To Restructure Your Frustrations Into Something Positive I often receive comments from my readers with deep and meaningful questions and I endeavor to respond in a way that can assist them on their life’s journey, Here’s one question I received recently along with my response. Sir, I would also love to ask you that…
Essential 12 Rules For Success In Life Just this last weekend I stayed at one of the Marriott Hotels in Sydney and came across Bill Marriott’s Twelve Rules Of Success. He wrote: My father often said, “Success is never final.” After hearing the stories of our Marriott associates, it’s easy to see why this is…
POWERFUL WAYS TO REBUILD YOURSELF AND RISE ABOVE ADVERSITIES We all have them; a painful divorce, getting laid off work or being forced to declare bankruptcy. Life is full of these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and whenever we’re faced with one, it is a struggle to pick ourselves up off the ground and start the difficult…
How To Escape A Rock & A Hard Place A few years back now, I felt between a rock and a hard place with things in my life, particularly work. For those of you who have ever had the feeling that what you are doing to earn money doesn’t resonate, in fact it begins to…
Unleashing the Power of Discipline: A Journey to Excellence Just this week I came across a quote written by the world famous quote supplier called Anonymous. And here it is: Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. As a boy, before the age of 12, I…
Develop A Winning Mindset: How to Think Like a Champion ‘A blind man with focus can see better than a man with perfect sight, but yet has no vision.’ A scientist marveled at how a seemingly harmless magnifying glass could create such intense heat, when the sun’s rays passed through its glassy surface. He asked…
Are you back into a corner and your mind tries to convince you that there is no way out It is within the walls of your mind that the battles are fought. And it is within the battlefield of your brain that victory is snatched or the pain of defeat is created. This is the…
Even the most fantastic dreams can be achieved if we are prepared to endure life’s challenges I recently took my family to Sydney to experience the New Year’s celebrations. With the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the major centrepiece to the magical firework experience, our eyes feasted on the colours and our ears delighted to the…
How to Stop Being Bitter: Steps to Stop Being a Bitter and Resentful Person Throughout the years I have observed how the root of bitterness –allowed to take root in a life – has destroyed the one who in the first place allowed that root of bitterness to take root. The end result has been…
Why is it that some organizations attract leaders and keep them for the long run, while other organizations attract leaders, and yet discard them in quick and regular succession? For the power of any organization is found within the leaders that are developed and nurtured in an atmosphere of love, respect and the freedom to…
The life personal growth ideas for yourself ‘The wise only possess ideas…the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.’ SamGROWTH OF AN IDEAuel Taylor Coleridge(1) Throughout the history of mankind, ideas, and the ready application of those ideas have always separated those who ‘were’ from those who ‘will be’. Only those who have embraced…
How to Feel More Joy Every Day This is the true joy of life: being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a great one, being a force of nature instead of a selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.’ George…