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I have a love/hate relationship with a lot of ‘entrepreneurial literature’. Or really any entrepreneurial content. It’s usually written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It’s usually aimed at getting you fired up and motivated about having your own business and making it wildly successful.  That’s all fabulous. I drink it up. Until they start to talk […]

Have you ever struggled with maintaining a regular exercise regimen? Are you juggling a demanding job, kids with patchy sleep, a partner, family, friends, life dramas, occasional insomnia and you feel guilty that you don’t seem to have the energy or willpower to exercise consistently and persistently? Two Strategies Unlikely to Work Humans use all […]

In the last week, working from home has shifted overnight from being a ‘sometimes food’ to an ‘everyday food,’ many industries have been changed unrecognisably and indefinitely and the rest of us have developed an obsession with grocery shopping and budgeting. While we are moving through the 7 Stages of Grieving our ‘Old Normal’ life […]

I blame it on Aerobics Oz Style. I think I was about 15 when I started. At 6.30 or 7am (whatever time it aired on Channel Ten in the mid-nineties) I would get up and try to start the day right, by exercising before school. It was my first attempt at a ‘morning routine.’ I’d […]

Unless… There were only eleven of us. Huddled in an anonymous room located in the depths of the vast and winding labyrinth that is the Marina Bay Sands convention centre in Singapore. Eleven people in the centre of an oddly large room. Hunched over. Examining a graph projected on a screen. At this moment in […]

What’s the secret? Hint: the answer is in the title. I wonder how often you have been in an audience where you and the entire group around you felt a spontaneous need to stand and enthusiastically applaud a presentation you just heard. How often does this happen? And how often have you been the one […]

As I put pen to paper I realise just how passionate I am about this topic: about people having amazing careers. Perhaps it is because I spent my twenties bouncing between semi-satisfying jobs wondering if my desire to ‘find my passion’ was just a little bit silly. Was I the only one I wondered? Sometimes […]

Is it possible that your ability to influence others, get your dream job, get promoted, make sales and inspire others could all hinge on how often and broadly you smile? What if your propensity for smiling also dictated how long and fulfilling your marriage would be? Or how long your life was? Surely not! Well, don’t […]

There is a reason Disney has made billions. It is the same reason Star Wars has made billions. And it is the same reason Disney bought the Star Wars franchise last year for $4 billion. STORIES! Humans live on stories. And we pay handsomely for them. People have stories too.  Barack Obama rose to power […]