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  • Know Yourself to Know Success

    To be truly successful, you must enjoy your life. Success is not going to bring you happiness if you measure it by the wrong criteria for you. Having lots of money but no time to enjoy it will not bring happiness. Financial rewards do not mean you are successful in life. It’s vital to know…

  • Feel Better by Knowing Yourself

    It’s a common story, some call it a midlife crisis, for others it’s an awakening. We all know of people who have made significant changes in their lives. For some it is slow and steady, for others it’s a seemingly snap decision. It often comes from examining your life, figuring out what’s important to you.…

  • When Personal Productivity Makes Things Worse

    The internet is full of information on how to be more productive. There are tips on how to construct your task lists, how to manage your emails, how to create time and how to model yourself on busy people. In this post, we’ll explore how personal productivity can hide, or even create more problems in…

  • What is Personal Productivity?

    In industry, productivity is measured in a scientific way. For example, how many widgets you can make in a shift, how many customers you can get through your supermarket till in an hour, or how many pages of writing you produce. It is easier to measure productivity in some industries than others. In general, the…

  • Choose how to Fully Relax

    Update This post was written before I understood the effect of neurodiversity on stress. Some of the techniques below will still help depending on your profile. The principles of knowing yourself will help you know which methods of relaxation are most likely to work for you. One antidote to busyness, stress or overwhelm is being…

  • Too Busy, Overwhelmed and Stressed Out?

    Several years ago, we started to hear about the cult of busyness. I don’t hear the term so much these days. I feel that it didn’t quite hit the mark for those who were busy in their lives. No one wants to think of themselves as in a cult. It doesn’t seem that things have…

  • How to Reduce the Busyness in Your Life

    Is busyness a problem in your life? Do you find that at the end of each day, you’ve been busy but feel like you’ve not achieved anything meaningful? Do you have the feeling that you’ve wasted the day and that the important work has been avoided? Busy work is the type of work that you…

  • Do you understand your model of success?

    Knowing yourself is vitally important in obtaining happiness and stress-free success. If you don’t know who you are and what makes you feel happy and successful, then how are you going to achieve it? By accident? In a previous post, I wrote about how your model of success can be filled with external influences. This…

  • Who builds your model of success?

    Previously I wrote about what success means to you and that everyone has a unique model of success. It’s interesting discovering where our models of success come from. What were the prompts for us to include certain features in our model? Starting to build a model At an early age we gather most of our…

  • What does Success mean?

    We often wish people success in their new ventures and in their lives. It’s a simple word, only seven letters long. We use it regularly so we must know what it means, right? Early in the coaching process a coach will ask “what does success mean to you?” If we all know what success is…

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