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Jul 2013
Managing Your Attitude
How do you develop a positive proactive attitude rather than being bogged down in the doom and gloom of the environment in these challenging economic times – that is the challenge for everyone today? Where does your attitude come from? Your thoughts, emotions, conditioning and experiences which are all stored in your subconscious mind. Attitudes […]
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Jul 2013
Emotional Intelligence
The emotional workplace challenges are summed up in three statements: People join companies and leave people It’s 1% perspiration and 99% inspiration Selling is 100% emotional. Critical thinking is important, but emotional intelligence is vital. The challenge for modern management is defined as the necessity to develop people through work. Traditional management was defined as […]
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Jul 2013
Principle of Attraction
‘Birds of a feather flock together’ is the metaphor used to capture the principle of attraction. Often times the challenge is how to get away from the ‘birds’ you have attracted to you. These ‘birds’ can come in the form of poor decisions, unhappy relationships, bad investments or lack of personal fulfillment. Your predominant attitudes […]
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Jul 2013
Principle of Reflection
Life is hectic and there are so many demands and activities on a day-to-day basis there is little if any time to reflect on events or results. Taking the time out to understand the origins of success or failure which will allow you to avoid or repeat those two motivators over and over again. Your […]
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Jul 2013
Principle of Expectations
There can be many conflicting expectations from self, parents, family, career, boss. These expectations may be implicit or explicit, spoken or non-verbal, they can be negative or positive. They can be motivational or depressing. In the business world, there is an implicit expectation that mergers and acquisitions should work when in fact statistics tell us […]
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Jul 2013
Principle of Belief
Many people have self-limiting beliefs which keep them from achieving their true potential in life. “They go to their grave with their music still in them” simply because they didn’t believe they had the potential to be, have or do something. The first challenge is to identify self-limiting beliefs and the second one is to […]
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Jul 2013
Principle of Cause and Effect
The world is a mess and there is so much dysfunction in society that the causes and effects are too much for one person to change. What can each person do to change the world, environment or even oneself. There is a sense of security and comfort in victim language and helpless behaviours. The big […]
13
Jul 2013
Present Moment Awareness
Voices from the past, concerns for the future dominate too many lives. The average person has 60,000 thoughts per day and about 70% of these are negative or fear based. It’s virtually impossible to turn off or tune out. This is the biggest Rubicon challenge of all. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not […]
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Jul 2013
Manage your Time
Never enough time to do everything cannot get to the important things, snowed under with details and trivia. Lots of ideas but not enough resources to put them into place … lots of rework, mistakes and stress!! This is the challenge for too many people. Every minute spent in planning will save you 10 minutes […]
09
Jul 2013
Know Yourself
Understand why you act and react to situations, people and circumstances the way you do. Why do you ‘lose it’ sometimes? Why do you get angry or moody? Knowing how you approach work and life and why other people don’t approach work and life the same way is a mystery for too many. How […]
05
Jul 2013
On Taking Responsibility
How do stop getting delayed, diverted and sabotaged on critical success factors and key performance indicators that help you take giant leaps forward? What’s holding you back? What or who is the elephant in the room? The biggest challenge may be to realise that you have already met the enemy. Take 100% responsibility for the […]
02
Jul 2013
Empowering Your Workforce
In order to licence and empower your workforce to be the best they can be, you should have a clear direction and vision for your business, get the right people on board in the right jobs, communicate your message clearly, be willing to change and give people responsibility for their jobs. Five tips and […]
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Jun 2013
Personal Leadership
The great challenge in life is to adopt a philosophy and approach to everything by embracing personal leadership with 100% responsibility. What does personal leadership look like? And how do you maintain a total commitment in all areas of your life and work? How do you know yourself better? Appreciate others in a new way? […]
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Feb 2013
Managing Your Attitude
How do you develop a positive proactive attitude rather than being bogged down in the doom and gloom of the environment in these challenging economic times – that is the challenge for everyone today? Where does your attitude come from? Your thoughts, emotions, conditioning and experiences which are all stored in your subconscious mind. […]