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The ABC of Success
What would you say if told you that I knew the secret formula to success?  That if you used this winning formula you could achieve what ever your heart desired.  Whether it be to have a better job, more money, greater happiness?  If only it was that easy eh?
Well I don’t claim […]

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“The most effective leaders are those who first learn to lead themselves.” Jim Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge, 2003
BEGIN IT NOW!!!
Until one is commited,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness
 
Concerning all acts of initiative
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and endless plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then providence moves too.
 
All […]

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This article was written with sales people in mind, however the exercises and activities can apply to anyone who is thinking of changing career but doesn’t know where to start!
 
For some people sales is a fantastic career. People in sales will tell you about the highs of the job, they will talk about the excitement […]

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are way powerful, beyond measure.
It’s our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves:  Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of the universe.
Your playing small doesn’t […]

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I am now writing for the highly aclaimed www.careershifters.org website, which has been featured in The Independent, The Times and The Guardian.  Careershifters is a great website which helps and supports people who want to change career direction.  They offer expert advice and  guidance to people who are not happy in their current job and want to make the big […]

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Listen to your inner voice, your gut feeling/instincts.  Is there a niggling voice inside your head that keeps trying to tell you something?  Or, perhaps it’s just an unsettling feeling that you can’t shake, that keeps popping up.  Even though you do your best to ignore it, it keeps rearing it’s head.

    That  voice or feeling is trying to […]

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Sometimes we come up with different answers if we frame the question differently.   You will need some paper and a pen.   I want you to answer the following questions………..

My ambitions for my professional life and career are:
My ambitions for my personal life are:

Ask yourself, what values and beliefs are associated with my responses?
Jot down your ideas […]

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Take a moment to think about this quote……”There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
I think this is a great quote.  It hits the nail on the head in my opinion.  To live your life in your own way, being true to yourself  and who you […]

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Some of the definitions of success that we use were probably adopted originally to please other people - or are those we have inherited from other people, our friends, family and the media.  This is not necessarily a bad thing: it is only natural that this should occur and these influences are clearly influences that […]

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” To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. “  Anatole France
What does success look/feel and sound like to you?”  Take a moment to ask yourself this question, don’t think too deeply, just write the first thoughts down that enter your head.
I think you can learn a great deal from this one […]

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