Category: professional development
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Sunday Zephyr – Seeing the world differently
I have made a few speeches this week about seeing the world differently, to open your mind to how others may see the world. If you truly want to grow and develop as a person and as a trainer you need to go beyond your own perceptions. A great place to start is by watching…
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Monday Video
I watched this video yesterday. Interesting presentation. Hope you like it. Can’t see the video – click here
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Sunday Zephyr – Mindfulness
Everyone is talking about mindfulness even football players, politicians and educators. But what does it really mean? I actually don’t think the majority of people do know what they are referring to. I here this comment often now: “I am mindful of the….”This is often coming from some of the most unmindful people I have…
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How’s your Charisma?
We could probably all do with a little more charisma. It definitely helps when training a group of adults, or kids for that matter. Check out these nine charisma tips from the Business Insider
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Tables
Here is a simple graphic that will show you how to make your tables more readable to an audience. View post on imgur.com
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Morning rituals – starting your day the right way
I provided you with some information of how I start my day last week and coincidentally I found this article last week on how successful people start their day (great infographic). I do quite of a few of these things but not all of them. How many do you do? Hope you have a great…
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Sunday Zephyr – Drawing up your life
How’s your Sunday going? I facilitate a lot of training that includes goal setting. I often think that people either don’t really get the point of effective goals or they just ignore the training advice and don’t set goals at any stage in their life. Maybe goals are just a little too dull and laborious…
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More on decision making
I wrote a post recently about decision making and two days ago I was delivering another short section on decision making. I wish that I had seen this video before that session as I think it explains a simple process for deciding how to choose a particular option. Hope you can us the knowledge or…
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Sunday Zephyr – Meditation
A Noosa Afternoon I posted on Friday that I meditate each morning. I thought that today might be a good day for some of you to try out meditation. This article gives you some good reasons,scientifically why you might want to try meditation. This article is a really good place to start if you have…
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End of the Week – How productive have you been?
How productive has your week been? Mine has been pretty good. Working for yourself means that you have to be even more disciplined in your approach to the day as I often work at home, which simply means, there are many distractions. Your workplace has many distractions, maybe even more than my own home office.…