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Taking back control

October 23, 2015

Many years ago someone taught me that of the 4 key management functions of planning, organising, leading and control, the weakest function was in fact control. Apparently we are on average ve...


Do you listen to your gut?

October 15, 2015

As they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty. Life would be so much less complicated and less stressful if we could see the results before they happened. When things don’t turn out the wa...


Thank you!

October 09, 2015

It doesn’t matter who you are a multi-millionnaire business tycoon or the bloke next door, we all need to feel appreciated in some shape or form in our personal and professional lives. So with...


When last were you hijacked?

October 01, 2015

Emotional hijacking can either save our lives or cripple them, depending on the situation and the emotional trigger of either fight, flight or freeze. The problem we face today according to Daniel ...


Are you keeping good company?

September 24, 2015

Look around you. Who are you spending most of your time with? Who are you socialising and working with on a daily basis?  Jim Rohn says, “You are the average of the five people you spend ...


It’s not always about winning

September 10, 2015

“If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.”  Brene Brown discusses this in her latest book, Rising Strong. When I first read this quote I fe...


The happy secret to better work

September 03, 2015

I’m a total advocate of positive psychology and not only do I promote it, but I also try to practise it in my own work and personal life. When I came across this TED talk by psychologist ...


Building confidence from the outside in

August 29, 2015

A friend of mine who works from home, tells me that she always makes sure to wear shoes when walking into her home office. Her wearing shoes, or how she was presented wouldn’t make a differenc...