7 Steps to Repairing Professional Relationships
Whether we realise it or not, we find ourselves in influencing situations every day. Every time we interact with someone else we are exerting some influence, particularly professionally. Professional relationships are like the gears in a...
Embrace Your Power to Alter Your World
“The world around you changes when you change.” ~Andrew BarsaThis quote encapsulates the essence of personal transformation. As multicultural executive women in male-dominated industries, the journey to high performance and fulfilment often...
The Power of Laughter: Elevating Influence and Joy in Life
Throughout our life journey, we often encounter various challenges that test our resilience and outlook. Amidst the hustle and bustle of our careers, especially in demanding, male-dominated industries, we can sometimes forget the importance of...
Embracing Simplicity
Have you ever felt like you’re juggling too many balls, and the more you add, the faster they seem to fall? Life’s complexities can often leave us feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and yearning for a breath of simplicity. It’s not about doing less,...
How Many Hours Do You Waste Each Day?
In a world where productivity rules the day, the idea of wasted time is more than just a nuisance—it's a critical issue. It's astonishing how quickly minutes turn into hours, hours into days, and days into a life half-lived. So, how many hours do...
Morning Mastery — Your Checklist for a Vibrant Start
Every morning presents a fresh opportunity to lay the foundation for a day filled with achievement and happiness. Here is a checklist of 21 empowering strategies to kick-start your day with vitality and purpose, specially designed for executive...
Unlocking Productivity and Happiness
Achieving “success” in our careers and personal lives is often perceived as a direct path to happiness and fulfilment. However, in my experience, many professionals, especially women, find themselves grappling with dissatisfaction despite their...
Why You Never Have Enough Time and How to Overcome It?
In our relentless pursuit of success and personal fulfilment, we often find ourselves lamenting the same old refrain: “If only I had more time.” This sentiment, echoed by many high achievers and everyday individuals alike, begs us to question not...
Who Do You Wish to Be?
Most of us start out with a loose idea of what we want out of life, or maybe you had no idea, or if you’re one of those few rare individuals - a clear idea. Whatever your starting point, what usually happens is we either reverse engineer the...
Enhance Your Life – Contribution
To enhance your life and overall self-concept, we’ve covered how to make positive changes in your Health, Relationships, Wealth and having goals. In this article, we contemplate what it takes to give of yourself regularly.ContributionAs most of us...
Enhance Your Life – Goals
The previous 3 articles highlighted the positive changes you could make in your Health, Relationships and Wealth to enhance your life and overall self-concept. In this article, we take a closer look at your Goals. Numerous studies have shown that...
Enhance Your Life – Wealth… and Finances
The previous article highlighted the positive changes you could make in your Relationships to enhance your life and, thereby overall self-concept. In this article, we look at Wealth… and Finances. Wealth is not as important as Health and...
Enhance Your Life – Relationships
In the last article, we discussed how one of the most reliable ways to enhance your self-concept is to make positive changes in your life overall, including your Health, Wealth, Relationships, Goals, and Contributions. Without your Health, it is...
Enhance Your Life – Health and Wellbeing
One of the most reliable ways to enhance your self-concept is to make positive changes in your life overall. It’s easier to think positively about yourself when you have an enjoyable and fulfilling life. Happy thoughts are generally easier to come...
Build Your Self-Esteem
Today’s article is the next in our series on “Give Yourself a Self-Concept Makeover”. The previous article focused on the strategy of “Reevaluating the Past”, in this article, we take a closer look at your self-esteem. Nathaniel Branden is a...
Give Yourself A Self-Concept Makeover
One of my mentors, Mack Newton says, “The life you’re currently living is the result of your self-concept.” Whoa! To be honest, I found that a little confronting at the time cause all I could think was, ‘so it’s all my fault?!?’ But what he was...
12 Timewasters to Avoid at All Costs
We all feel like we don’t have enough time. But most of us waste a lot more time each week than we care to admit 🤪 Unfortunately, the perfect timewaster is enjoyable, allows the time to fly by, and is highly distracting! These days we have a lot of...
15 Ways to Have Your Best Year Ever
Take control of your life and have the best year you’ve ever experienced. With a little bit of effort each day, you can make that wonderful year a reality. It’s the small things that can make the most difference over time. The effect of small...
What’s Wrong With Busy Work?
We like busy work. It’s always at least a little bit less painful than the task we know we should be doing. At the same time, we feel at least a little productive. Cleaning behind the fridge is normally less than inspiring, but it doesn’t sound...
The Power of High Performance Habits: A Multicultural Corporate Executive Woman’s Journey to Success
Born in Australia as the daughter of multicultural immigrant parents and becoming a corporate executive woman, I faced my fair share of challenges in the male-dominated industries I worked in at the time like Finance and Information Technology....
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