About This Site. This site is the website of motivational speaker Craig
Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop
information, inspiration, education and motivation
station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally
free resource for anyone who is serious about moving
from mediocre to amazing in any area of their
personal or professional life. With hundreds of
articles covering a wide range of subject matter,
great interviews with cool people and inspirational
video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to
keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!!
Enjoy.
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Public Speaking Workshop
- Craig Harper
If you've ever
thought about becoming a professional speaker or
improving your public speaking then this is the workshop
for you.
Life Coach & Mentor - Craig Harper
If
you are interested in maximizing your potential,
stepping out of that 'holding pattern' and being
privately coached by Craig click here.
Business & Career Coach - Craig Harper
If your a personal trainer, gym owner or studio owner who is interested
in growing your business and/or your career, then mentoring with Craig
could be a valuable part of your overall success strategy and
professional development journey.
Body Composition Analysis
- Craig Harper
Craig's
Qualified Exercise Scientists can provide you with a
complete Body Composition Analysis in just 30
minutes.
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life-long change is more about the
dieter, than the actual diet. This book is perfect for people who have a
history of 'almost' getting in shape.
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Food, Exercise, and Lifestyle
Diary -
Craig Harper.
If you're serious about your training,
nutrition, and lifestyle - Craig Harper's training diary is an invaluable tool.
Craig Harper is a leading
motivational speaker
and educator. He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development. Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
For those of you (in Australia) who will be near a television at 10:10 (ish) this morning, I will be on Channel Ten (the 9AM show) doing my regular gig. Today I am taking off my fitness hat and talking about Renovating Lives; my first Personal Development segment on national TV. Go me. Take a peek. I'll wave to you.
G'day Groovers.
Over the years I have trained thousands of people, from weekend warriors to Olympians. From fat blokes and chicks to bodybuilders and bodyshapers. And from kids and oldies to professional sporting teams. For the last five years I have been winding down my P.T. duties on the gym floor and at the end of 2007 I officially hung up my whistle and dumbbells. Yes I still own a couple of gyms, but I don't actually train anybody these days (perhaps the odd friend). It's been weird not training people after personally completing more than 40,000 sessions (no, not a mistake) over the last two decades.
While I still enjoy working with clients, these days the majority of my energy and time is invested into other areas. This site for instance. Interestingly, Johnny still gets at least one enquiry each day about my availability to train people.
Anyway, we have been toying with the idea of having a little fun and running some kind of competition via the site for a while, but we weren't really sure about what we might offer as a prize. That was until Johnny suggested that we give away a week of personal training with me; five, sixty minute, one-on-one sessions with Mr. I've Retired. Now I know that some of you would rather hit yourself in the head with a spanner than spend five hours of face to face time with me over the course of a week, but feedback suggests that some of you might be up for it. Weirdos.
How it Works
All of the sessions will be conducted back to back in the one week (Monday to Friday), so it will be a big week for someone. While the sessions will essentially be PT sessions (in the gym), there will also be an element of mentoring and education over the course of the five days. If you can't make it five days straight then you won't be chosen, so availability is a requirement. Which week it happens and the time of the daily appointments, will be co-ordinated to suit the winner and myself. The sessions will be conducted from my Brighton centre in Melbourne and at the end of the five sessions, I will design an on-going program for the winner. I realise this prize will be difficult, if not impossible to 'collect' for some of you (for geographical reasons)... sorry about that but at this stage of my development I can't teleport. Yet. I am working on it though. We are also in the process of creating a competition which will be for our interstate and international readers only. Info about that will be up within the next month. Having said that, anyone from anywhere can enter if you can make it to Melbourne for the five days.
How to Enter
Tell us in one hundred and fifty words or less why you want (need) to hang out with me for a week. Your submission can be serious and heart-felt or it can be hilarious, amusing and entertaining... whatever you feel compelled to share. Once you've finished your submission, you can send it via the comment thingy at the bottom of this post (or any post until the end of next week), or you can send it via email by clicking on the email thingy next to my photo. Or maybe you could send a hand-written message on parchment via your own carrier pigeon. Your choice. The cut off for entries will be Friday, August 1. Anyone can enter. Current fitness level, exercise history and age is not an issue.
Choosing a Winner
Because I'm essentially a chicken, I'm going to hand that responsibility over to my boy Johnny and our newest craigharper.com team member, Miss Bossy Boots; Vive from Lloyd Events in Perth. Then you can be mad at them, not me. Yep, completely gutless. Obviously we can have only one winner, but if we have some fun with the whole concept (and there's any further interest), then we'll probably do it again before the year's end.
Covering the Event
I will cover the week of training here on the site, complete with daily updates, photos, a report from the winner (at the end of the week) and possibly a video interview in the form of a video-post. It should be plenty of fun and hopefully a great experience for our winner.
Tomorrow
See you tomorrow when we take a look at the topic of focus. Some of us are very busy achieving nothing in particular and many of us simply have too many balls in the air to be effective and productive (sound familiar?).
Ciao.. x
Feel free to ask a question, share a thought or idea or just say hi by clicking on the comment thingy.
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Motivational
Speaker - Craig Harper Craig Harper is one of Australia's most respected
motivational speakers and educators. Some of Craig's recent clients include:
"We had our annual
conference over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th Feb, 2008 and we had
Craig Harper as one of our presenters. He was wonderful, funny and
professional, and he got our message through to the staff in a positive
and fun way. He was loved by all!"
DVD
- Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. (Also
available on CD).
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life long change is more about the
dieter than the actual diet.
Food for thought
- Craig Harper
In this book, Craig Harper
walks the reader through his 21 rules to Permanent Weight Loss.
So you've decided you want to get in shape (again)
- Craig Harper
Imagine a pocket-sized fitness book that takes just twenty minutes to
read. Craig Harper addresses the REAL getting-in-shape issues.
DVD
or CD - Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
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Telstra
ANZ Bank
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
National Australia Bank
Corporate Express
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Department of Infrastructure
Department Planning and Community Development
Simplot Australia
Porter Davis Homes
Rothschild Merchant Bank
Royal Children's Hospital
Fernwood Fitness Centres
Flour Daniel
Brivis
Sensis
Western Water
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For more information on booking Craig click
here.Some nice words about Craig:
"We had our annual conference over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th Feb, 2008 and we had Craig Harper as one of our presenters. He was wonderful, funny and professional, and he got our message through to the staff in a positive and fun way. He was loved by all!"
Ally Memic, IMCD, Australia