Do you really want to soar? You can’t take off to your destination successfully, when you’re burdened with excess baggage. You need to identify, eliminate and conquer; your fears, your loss and grief, your uncontrolled emotions like anger and jealousy, and your dead wood of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness, because these things have no life […]
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Did you know the greatest fear of people – is people – some of us are obsessed by what other people think. Some of us are guided only by what other people think, and not what they really want to do. Being afraid of people and what they think, is a real and certain danger
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We’ve been warned to WATCH by Lao Tzu – Watch means to be observant. Watch and Think. He said, “Watch your Thoughts, they become your words; watch your Words, they become your actions; watch your Actions, they become your habits; watch your Habits, they become your character; watch your Habits, they become your character; watch your Character, it becomes your Destiny.” Thinking is important
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Have you ever wondered, who taught you how to think? Do you challenge the facts? Do you have independent thought? Can you logically think about both sides of an issue without emotional bias? Do you think through all the possible pros and cons before making big decisions? Do you take a pause, a deep breath
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Many people have heard the phrase, ‘David and Goliath’ but only understand it as the little guy taking on the big guy, which to the eye in the natural, looks completely impossible. ‘Let’s not bother with that battle‘, they say. Who wants to take on a ‘Goliath’? What happens when we see the ‘impossible’? Do we
As good practice, lawyers tend to know the answer to a question before they ask it. They are trying to either gain more information or check to see if the person might be putting a ‘spin’ on the facts. The reason questions matter, is they’re also an indicator of our attitude, ignorance, faith or fear.
When tough times come, leaders must implement what is best for the organisation as a whole. Staff and volunteers are our most valuable asset so putting strategies into place such as custom training, to buoy the team coming through unknown challenges, is a priority. This has transformed us into a strong and tightly knit unit.
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We’re steadying the ship, steering a course towards the shore and setting down our anchor until calm returns. We’re taking stock of what we have and focusing on those we seek to serve – this is the talk of leaders navigating their organisation through tough times. We prioritised the wellbeing and morale of staff by
We make plans and we expect those plans to come together. But then one day comes along when the winds change suddenly and ferociously, and your home is decimated by fire in the evening of the fifth day of a summer heat wave, five days before Christmas. This catastrophic event came after 32 years of
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It was Christmas Eve 2019, my local MP John Gardner phoned me early in the morning, asking if I’d drive to Lobethal to meet the Prime Minister Scott Morrison. John couldn’t find any victims of the Cudlee Creek Fires as they’d all left the Hills. It made sense – our homes had been destroyed. When
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