This past month, I’ve been noticing the importance of an extremely key element in making the leap from the ordinary to the extraordinary….This piece in the puzzle is having the right people with you, around you and supporting you. Jim Collins puts it, in his book Good to Great, ‘having the right people on the bus’. Continue reading
Do you wish you were more productive? Are you caught in the trap of being extremely busy but you still don’t feel productive? Are you ‘productive’ yet you don’t reach your goals? Continue reading
Is wisdom something we can acquire? Can we become wiser? Many of us think that wisdom comes with age and experience. The fact is that many people do not necessarily grow wise with age and experience because they never utilize their experience to teach themselves anything. Continue reading
Have you ever thought that your thought life could be instrumental in your success? Have you thought about how you intentionally chose to manage your thought life? If you were to categorise your thoughts into topics what would the main topics be? Continue reading
Without a doubt one of the most important things I learnt last year was more about my personal capacity and how to be okay in the midst of chaos. This has given me more confidence this year in planning my business, my schedule, my goals and my priorities. Continue reading
Studies show that a key behavior of a successful person is that they plan for the long haul. You will hear them sometimes talk about what they are working on for the next 12 months, their plans for 24 months, 5 years and if you press them they will probably tell you their 20 year vision. Continue reading
There comes a time in everyone’s journey, myself included, when important but very difficult decisions need to be made. It’s at these times you begin to realize the enormity of the cost of your dream. Living out your dream, involves making sacrifices. Continue reading
Does envisioning come easily to you? In leading your own life and being a leader of people, it all starts right here. If you haven’t defined your vision, your direction is unclear. If you haven’t got clear dreams, you are most probably following other peoples. If you haven’t created a clear picture of the future, your decisions are most probably reactions to circumstances without too much strategy. Continue reading
As the last blog of this year, the first year in fact of this blog, could there be a better topic than the wonderful gift of celebration. For this blog I want to write about looking back on 2013. Continue reading
With those you lead, one of the most powerful ways you can influence them is to park your opinion and allow them to find their own answer. Parking your opinion for the sake of this mission is a great first step in becoming a powerful influential leader of others Continue reading