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Personal
Leadership Articles
Personal
Leadership
Are you leading your life or do
you feel like life is leading you? Are you taking charge of
decisions on a daily basis or do you feel like you have no
choice? Personal leadership is about knowing that at any moment you have
choice in how to be, how to act and what to have in your life.......more
Resourceful Thinking vs Positive Thinking -
It's not about being Happy
How can one be positive all the
time when current life circumstances are so challenging? People can confuse
'positive thinking' with having to be happy all the time or saying how wonderful things
are. That can be difficult when honestly, things aren't going so well. And
right now for many, life is challenging and to overcome those challenges we need to see
them for what they are..... more
It's Not Your Fault -
5 Reasons it Might be Easier to
Blame Others
The core message for self-help and personal development is for
people to step up and take responsibility for their own lives. Why do many people find this
challenging? Its because blaming others has been programmed into us by our family and by
society..........more
What Are You Looking For? - How your Reality is a Reflection of
You
Does it sometimes seem like other people just don't get it?
Their view of life is so completely different from yours that you figure they must be
nuts. Or perhaps you
are.
The thing is, we all
have our own unique version of what we see in the world, based on what we focus on. A
person cannot focus on everything at any point in time, and so the information is filtered
down...........more
Disrupt the
Disruption - Break that Habit
Have you ever found yourself reacting in a negative way to
a certain comment, a particular person, or a particular situation? It could be seeing a
look on someone’s face, or hearing an angry tone in someone’s voice, or seeing a crowd of
people that trigger’s you to react in the same habitual way before you
realise......more
Commitment Eases The
Way
Many people fear or avoid commitment (in relationships, to their goals)
thinking that it makes life more difficult when in fact, commitment makes things easier!
Commitment helps you to focus, make decisions and guides you through
challenges.......more
Overcoming Your
Fear - Take Charge of Your
Emtoions
How are you handling the emotion of
fear or is handling you? Some people have specific fears while others have the fear in all
aspects of their life. It’s like one day they decided that the world is a bad and scary
place........more
Going with the Flow - Dealing with Life's Disruptions
A
volcano erupts in Iceland and so many lives are disrupted as a result. It’s not the challenges
in our lives that determine our results, it’s how we are able to cope with those challenges.
There are many catastrophes happening in the world with geological changes, along with the
continuing economic challenges - those who not only survive, but thrive in such conditions are
the ones with the most behavioural flexibility.........more
What Rule Book are Your Playing
By?
- How Values Affect Your Results
We all possess a unique set of values that acts as a sort of rule book for living,
that guides the choices we make, how we spend our time, where we invest our wealth, etc. Tony
Robbins considers values “like a compass that directs your life.” Our choices and behaviors are
ruled by those top values. Whether individuals get what they want or not can often come down to
their priorities, what their existing values system dictates........more
Are You Anchored into Your
Grief?
- Master Your Emotional State
I was watching a lady talking about the loss of her husband, and you could
probably imagine that she was devastated. The accident had occurred 4 years earlier and it is
said, that you never get over something like that, or do you?
There is no right or wrong as to how long to grieve and the
biggest influence on whether you continue to suffer in grief is your own choice or
belief. ........more
Safety Specific
Articles
What You Lose When You Try Not
To -
How the fear of loss can affect your safety
Have you ever been late for some important meeting or occasion? What happened and where was
your focus in that time? My guess is that you were focused on ‘not being late’ and getting to
your event on time regardless of all other factors, perhaps regardless of the safety of you and
people around you. Do you take risks that you wouldn’t normally take?.........more
How Are You Thinking About
Safety? -
7 Ways your Thoughts Could Lead to
Accidents
If you have ever had an accident or
embarrassment, you might have been asked the question “What were you thinking?” The answer might be that you were
not thinking - or at least not thinking about what you were doing. Let’s explore how your
thinking might be leading you to accidents and how instead it could lead to
safety.
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Don't Play the Blame Game -
Be the Cause of Your
Life
Have you
ever noticed that when accidents happen someone is always looking to put the finger at
someone or something? Someone must be responsible. Who is to blame? This can occur
between two people just as it can on a global scale. It can be human nature to point the
finger at everyone or everything else but the self, until you realise how disempowering
this is.......more
Sport Specific
Articles
Stop
Competing and Start Winning
Did you know that by flying in a
V formation, geese increase their flying range by 71% more than if each bird were to fly
alone?
Successful athletes by their very nature are competitive.
Some play sport for the love of it, but for any top-level athlete, they need to be competitive
and to have that competitive edge. Its how you deal with competition, how you thrive on it or
are challenged by it that will determine the results you will
get. ........more
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