Do you have rules you live by? Rules for living?  Would love to hear them …..  Here are some of mine. 

Good manners never cost anyone anything
Be kind to people
Remember those that were kind to you
All children deserve to be loved
You only get one family – look after them
Don’t be too busy setting goals you don’t [...]

Many people struggle as youngsters with the idea of deciding what we “want to be when we grow up”.  Many adults still don’t know what they “want to be”, years after they start their working lives and careers.  Gone are the years of one job for life! Many of us will changes careers a number of times throughout our working [...]

You can’t control other people’s behaviour, but you can control how you react to it.  Do you let other people, their behaviour, attitude and actions, control how your day turns out?  I am sure we are all familiar with the situation, you wake up and tell yourself it is going to be a good day, [...]

Most of you would be familiar with the concept of S.W.O.T. – an exercise usually completed as part of a strategic planning process for a business.�
S – Strengths
W – Weaknesses
O – Opportunities
T – Threats
It can be a useful exercise to complete as part of any planning process and is an amazing exercise to get participants to [...]

I set pretty high standards for myself. I honestly belief that life is all about how we treat other people and I vividly remember my mother continually telling me that “Good manners never cost anything!”. I like to think I live my life most days by that motto and treat others the way in which [...]

The start of a new working year leads many business owners to plan for the year ahead and, if they are anything like me, reassess where the business is going and where they would like it to be.�
I had planned to do this in December and be ready to take on the world once the new year [...]

I had a conversation just recently with a client who is a Manager of a hospitality venue with almost 50 staff reporting directly to her.  We were discussing the notion of Staff supervision and leadership.  She was actually venting about staff not following instructions or directions.�
She said something along the lines of …. “I tell them [...]

While setting some goals for the year, I was conscious of the fact that I wanted to ensure the goals were positive.  “I will eat healthy” not “I won’t eat chocolate” for example.  While struggling with that thought I was reminded of a story I read a few months ago in “Chicken Soup for the [...]

I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions.  There I said it.  Phew I feel better now I have that out there.  My philosophy is – if there is something about you or your life you would like to address or fix or make better, why do people need to wait for a [...]

Have you ever wondered why you can relate easily to some people and not to others?
Do you know why you find some people more attractive, or why some people seem to speak your language even at first meeting?
How come some people “get” you and others seem to think you are speaking a foreign language?
Do some [...]