Play a Bigger Game: How Leaders Can Reset Goals and Boost Energy in 2025 Can you remember the exhilaration of working toward a meaningful goal? The focus, drive, and sense of being fully alive when a big goal challenges you? Think back to the goals you’ve achieved. Leaders and professionals [Read more…]
Boost Your Mindset and Results: The Power of a Daily Gratitude Practice
I’m always amazed at how effective this is…
How to Use Visualization to Achieve Your Goals (Lessons from My Dad)
In this post, I reflect on a powerful lesson my father taught me about goal setting — the importance of vivid visualization. From a childhood memory on horseback in South Africa to a modern-day workshop, I share how involving all your senses makes your goals more real and achievable. You’ll also learn practical steps to create your own vision and turn it into results.
Choosing Your Emotions: How to Stay Positive and Thrive Through Life’s Challenges
“It’s over, the mine’s closing – we’ve got to move.” These were the words I heard one morning at 7:49am when my husband called me from work. Three months later, over 1000 people who worked at the Western Australian nickel mine were out of a job, including my husband. This [Read more…]
Work-life balance is a Myth!
Aiming to have a static balance: Everything perfectly in its place, doing things the same way every week, month or year. Everything perfectly planned out is setting yourself up to be frustrated. As soon as everything gets all straightened out, something will happen to upset the apple cart. If you have kids, the apple cart gets upset twice as often, with even more upheaval than ever before!
Leading Through Mine Closure: How Mining Leaders can Harness Emotions to Move Forward
“It’s over, the mine’s closing – we’re out of here.” These were the words I heard on January 21st, 2009, at 0749 when my husband called me from work. Three months later, nearly 2,000 people who worked at BHP’s Ravensthorpe nickel mine were out of a job, including my husband. [Read more…]
Keep Watering Your Bamboo Tree
This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet.
Begin at once (don’t wait for everything to be perfect!)
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.”
Jill Hutchison, Business Thought leader, talks about taking action even when you aren’t ready. Don’t wait for everything to be perfect!
Citizenship Ceremony, or just play netball?
Today, the Hutchison’s reach a HUGE milestone!! I’m so excited, I’m like a kid at Christmas! Tonight, after a 20-year-long goal, we are finally becoming Australian citizens. This morning my daughter said, “Why can’t I just go to my netball game, why do I have to come to [Read more…]
Dejavu, I now know this quote off by heart! “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the [Read more…]
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