July 2008

Seven Self-Help Pitfalls

Share As most of you know, I’ve worked for a couple of decades (or so!) helping people along the path towards their best life via my career in the fitness industry. Over the last five or six years I’ve committed much more of my time and energy into developing a career in the big, weird [...]

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Book Review 24

Share Hi Guys. Take a look at book review 24 by the very fabulous Kris Rollag here. Feel free to comment on the reviewed book, to encourage our reviewer, or just say hi and add your thoughts. Dates for the national tour and a new post will be up tomorrow. Thanks for all the feedback [...]

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Genius Below the Dojo

Share G’day Groovers. Hope this finds you well and I trust you had a ripper weekend. The following article is not really a typical motivational or educational post as such. It’s a story about an experience I had late last week. There are lessons to be learned if you look for them. I hope you [...]

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Feedback (part 2) – Giving

Share In yesterday’s post we began looking at how we can use feedback to improve the quality of our results in both our personal and our professional lives. And while it’s not always something that we enjoy giving or receiving, used the right way, the feedback process can be the difference between success and failure, [...]

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Feedback (part 1).

Share *Note: For the purpose of this post, when I use the term ‘feedback’ I am talking about constructive, specific, relevant, well-meaning feedback by a responsible, informed person – not scathing, pointless criticism by some ranting idiot.The Trigger: “Hi there, could I chat with you for a moment? I’d just like to give you a [...]

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NEWS FLASH: Life’s Not Fair…. or is it?

Share I always marvel at people who constantly invest their emotional energy into the Life’s Not Fair paradigm. Never really seems to be a great investment of time, energy or potential from where I stand. Doesn’t appear to change anything for the better. If anything, it seems to put people in a dis-empowered, unproductive and [...]

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Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs (part 2)

Share Last week we began to explore the area of self-limiting beliefs with part one of this discussion. In some way, on some level, we all sabotage ourselves by letting our beliefs get in the way of our potential and our possibilities. I should know, I spent years sabotaging myself. For far too long I [...]

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Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs (part 1)

Share We all have core beliefs. Things which consciously or not, we have made to be truth in our mind. Some of those beliefs serve us well and are positives in our lives, while others simply get in the way of our potential and our possibilities. To a large extent our beliefs dictate our behaviours, [...]

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Melbourne RYL

Share G’day Groovers… hope you’re all having a great week and “being the change that you want to see in your world” (Gandhi). A couple of Sundays ago we ran our Melbourne RYL (Renovate Your Life) Workshop at my Brighton centre (lovingly referred to as the Harperdome) and much learning, frivolity and fun was had [...]

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Don’t Always Believe the Science

Share Science has given us some amazing inventions over the centuries. Personally I’m a big fan of the light bulb (thanks Thomas) and the Wright brothers were certainly having a good day when their flying machine finally took to the air at Kitty Hawk all those years ago. But I guess the scientific breakthrough at [...]

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