Achieving your ultimate goal: Start Your Strategy
Ok from the exercises you have completed in the previous steps –Step 1 Self-Assessment and Step 2 Goal Setting, you now have your start point and your end point. Now you must start working out how to join the two together. You are going to start developing your Strategy. This first thing is to understand […]
Goal Setting – Your big shiny goal
Following on from my previous articles; find your purpose and self assessment – the 1st step, you now have a pretty clear picture of who and where you are right now so what is the next step on the road to finding your purpose? I personally found this to be the fun part when I […]
The Starting Point to Finding Purpose – Self-assessment
Last week I wrote about how, to achieve your goals, you have to know what your purpose is. I promised to show you the steps to do this so here is the first step: you have to truly understand who you are and where you are now. The hard bit I found was to a) […]
How Can You Reach Your Goal If You Don’t Know Your Purpose
If you are feeling stuck in a rut, feeling unfulfilled, are jealous of other’s successes, or are simply frustrated that you are not further along to where you think you should be then read on. I wrote a little while back about humans needing a purpose: What I didn’t realise until recently is that not […]
Back to Work – Post Holiday Planning
Are you ready to get back to work? I’ve often mused over the saying ‘the older you get the faster time goes’ as it does seem to generally hold true but I think I would now change it to ‘the older you get the faster change happens’. It only seems like yesterday that it was […]
Maintaining communication – keeping the connection
Keeping Open the Lines of Communication- maintaining communication is important Most industries have a lull during their trading year. There is almost always a month where not much is going on in sales or where the closure rate is no longer as imperative as it was in the other months. You may be making fewer […]
Stress Busting Techniques
We’ve all heard doctors, the media and various medical reports stating how beneficial exercise is good for beating stress but did you realise that it needn’t always be sweating away in a gym, lifting weights or pounding away at a treadmill knowing your body is so going to hurt the next day? There are great […]
Beating Stress & Having Fun; Hobbies & Interests
The importance of hobbies and interests in beating stress Most of us pride ourselves on working so hard and effectively that we find we don’t have time to indulge our interests outside of work. What we forget is that these outside interests may well make us more productive inside. Not only that- research shows that […]
The Dangers of Stress – And How to Overcome Stress
Is it important to overcome stress? It’s been well documented the work hours lost attributed to stress. An expensive condition to both employee, employer and the self-employed. And yet we still push ourselves to the limit and don’t raise our heads enough to notice that this month is a perfect time to slow down a […]
The Blame Game – a game with no winners
For more years than I care to remember I have heard numerous companies stating that they ‘want to get away from the blame game’ they want to promote a culture of inclusivity where employees can voice concerns or point out problems without fear of retribution. However, I see very little evidence that this is not […]