Ideas on joy, leadership, feelings and performance.
Because how people feel drives everything they do.
Fully Live
I have ‘borrowed’ the wonderful cartoonist Michael Leunig’s concept of JOMO for the beginning of 2019 newsletter! Many people and magazines write about the stress of holiday season and give you all sorts of tips and skills, only for us to do the same things again the next year despite new year ‘resolutions’! What…
Emotional intelligence
F.O.W.O.T. It’s insidious and affects a huge number of people. It undermines many behaviors and can limit our growth and development. What is it? Fear of what others think! How many times have you felt silly, humiliated, shamed, embarrassed or shy? Have you ever wondered what causes those feelings? Ever really delved into their source?…
Emotional intelligence
“Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” Virginia Satir I found this fantastic quote and thought ‘wow’! Of course! But often it’s the most obvious things that we lose sight of in this age of super…
Speaking
Amanda is CEO of The Joy Project, an author, speaker, Huffington Post columnist and business woman. She is one of 4 Australians inducted into the USA Speaker Hall of Fame. Amanda Gore has been a conference keynote speaker in Australia for over 25 years. She lived in the USA for 8 years and is still…
Help for businesses
No matter what business you are in, there will be a time when you have to present some ideas to a group, your boss or colleagues, it’s your time to influence others. Or maybe you are presenting at a wedding or personal event, these secrets apply to any presentation you have to do…
Change
The one thing is, ‘get real!’ Last post I talked about sales and how ‘getting real’ is linked with getting results. This month I want to share with you why you need to ‘get real’ in your life! And why! The phrase ‘get real’ is often used to imply that someone needs a ‘reality…
Get Real
Hands up all those in sales? It’s astonishing when I ask audiences this question to see how few raise their hands! Unless it is a sales team! We are ALL in sales of some sort! Whether it is ‘selling’ a product or an idea or having a conversation or convincing someone else to do what…
Emotional intelligence
1. Find something for which to be grateful, now and every time you feel anything other than joyful! It’s impossible to have a heart full of misery and a heart full of joy. Gratitude is the great re-framer! When you look through gratitude glasses everything changes, no matter what happens in your life, so…
Emotional intelligence
Secret 1, Know Yourself This is, of course, is fundamental to everything in life, although many people never take time to truly ‘know themselves’! If you have a good understanding of who you are and are authentic, you will find the work that lights you up. Sales people are sometimes seen as a…
Change
This morning on my way to the airport for a trip to the USA, I was listening to the global CEO of Rio Tinto, a giant mining company. He was talking about the importance of creating a new approach in business, not B2B but B2P. Business to people. Mind you, I prefer P2P…
Emotional intelligence
Lifestyles in our culture leave many people feeling exhausted, stressed, overwhelmed and functioning below par. Have you ever read Michael Gerber’s book The E Myth? In it, he says entrepreneurs fail because they are too busy working IN their businesses and not ON their businesses. The same applies to life. Most people are so swamped…
Emotional intelligence
Our personality traits show up through our mindsets. We are not our mindsets but our mindsets influence everything in our lives! And our thinking determines our mindsets. Both of which can be changed. Personality traits ‘appear’ through our actions, attitudes and behaviors. At the base of all three of those is our thinking. So our…
Emotional intelligence
Ok, so you have heard all this stuff about mindsets but you are not really sure what they are! Simplistically, a mindset is just a collection of beliefs. Beliefs are just thoughts arranged in a pattern! I was honored to spend a lot of time with a client recently on their roadshow, who all have…
Change
Wondering what it is? Believe it or not, the word is ‘YET’. Well, it’s ONE of the most powerful words! From my years of NLP training I already understood how we can reprogram neural pathways by saying one of 3 phrases at the end or beginning of statements I would hear coming out of my…
Emotional intelligence
How many times a day do you say thank you? Do you say it because it’s a built in automatic response, or do you say it because you mean it? Think of the last time you really expressed sincere appreciation for someone; how did you feel? Imagine if you felt like that all the time!…
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