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Do you bask in positivity or dwell in the land of the negative?

Do you jump out of bed in the morning and seize the day, or do you slump out of bed and drag yourself through the day, wishing for it to be over?

Do you see the glass as half full, or do you see it as half empty?

Your experiences, education and…

You Can Live Your Potential (2007)

Paul H. Saunders B.A Grad Dip Applied Psych Psychologists

How do you define full potential? Are you living it?

Saunders’ book is a self-help book that is structured in a way that it is easy to follow; it is light and broken up with some illustrations. It gives the reader some theoretical (psychological) background, then relates the theory to real life examples and finally applies it to practical tools…

We live in global world.  And in Australia, like many other areas in the world, we live in a multicultural society.  What does that mean for you? Do you embrace this cultural diversity?



Last weekend, I got to facilitate a weekend retreat with 25 young women from a wide range of cultural backgrounds - we had young women from Zambia, Somalia, South Africa, Iraq, Spain, Maldives, Malaysia, China, India and more.  We shared stories, challenged our assumptions and learnt more about…

Over the last six months I've had the pleasure of getting to know President of Leader Development Group,…

Based on confidence building anecdotes that people have shared with the authors, two Australian psychologists assisting people in the workplace, this book proclaims to bring together proven strategies and ideas for people to look and act confidently at work - simply put, to grow taller poppies. These confidence-building strategies target common issues such as how to make an impact; speak out at meetings; deal with difficult colleagues; overcome nerves; sell your ideas; move out of…

I was lucky enough to win one of the three books as part of the summer reading giveaway, please see my review and thoughts below. 

Ryan has written an easy to digest book that clearly outlines some great strategies that will assist young professionals to adjust to the professional world of work and maximise their performance in the workplace as an early career professional. In saying this, I believe many of these strategies apply not only to young or early career…

We can achieve anything that we set our eyes on, given the time. 

Empowering young people- help spread the word about the amazing organisation Rotaract is! :))

A quick and easy task: Just entered a YouTube video competition for Rotaract. I've attached the link below. Video with the most hits by 29TH JAN wins! ($100 to PolioPlus). So go ahead and abuse that replay button- haha! Thnx guys :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3KpGk-7FTk…

I was lucky enough to be chosen to review one of the books on offer from Emergen. The first impressions when I first got this book was “Great – it’s not War & Peace, it shouldn’t take me too long.” In fact, it took me 2.5 hours to read while my little one was taking his nap. It’s a very easy read and it was quite engaging.

I love to read, however I have never picked up a self-help book or a how-to guide so went in with an open mind. I found Shivani's (the author) book to…

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still"

Actually, it was a young wise President of the Rotary club of Southbank who said that this evening. ...Just wanted to share it. :)

...And to ask if anyone knows what that means?? 

I posted 10 Questions to Reflect on 2011 -  You can read the post here.  Throughout the week, I got my A3 pad out myself and answered every single question.  It took a couple of hours to finish, but it gave me a great way to reflect on the year I'd just had! You can see all my brainstorms to the left.

Some of my overall reflections and themes from my answers were:

- Focus on the…

Don’t knock the power of positivity



I was once incredibly critical about myself in every way – the depression didn’t help, but the self-deprecating thoughts didn’t help the depression either. Kind of a vicious circle…

That is one of my favourite lines in any movie. 

The line comes from the film Fight Club, when Brad Pitts character, Tyler, is consoling the narrater(the character is never actually named) after there was an explosion in his house where the narrater "lost everything".

About a month ago, I was sitting on a beach in Cambodia after scuba diving for 6 days (you can read about it …

A major part of the Emergen online community is blogging.  

In 2011 the Emergen blogging community exploded, with the return of beloved bloggers from the years previous, and a new generation of first-time Emergen bloggers emerging (most who were first-time…

Today I share with you a video that Alicia Curtis recently shared with me at the perfect time: as 2011 came to a close and the dawn of a new year was upon us.

The following is a TED talk from motivational speaker, life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein.  She talks about finding your inner truth, letting go of you holding you back, forgiveness and miracles.

I hope you get as much from it as I did, and thank you again Alicia.

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I’d hazard a guess you, or someone you know, will have uttered the words “I wish I hadn’t ....” at least once during 2011. Every one of us will probably be able to pinpoint incidents and actions that make us wince and that we’d rather forget - most of them will be of our own doing.

Comments we made on our Facebook pages. Emails we sent in anger and haste. Arguments we had to win, no matter what the cost and who may have been hurt in the process. Promises we broke, to…

I recently had the opportunity to interview Charmel Delos Santos - amazing woman, mother of three, fellow Emergen member and first-time author of the newly released book “High Heeled Traders” (ISBN 1463797915). 

About…

Yesterday I asked myself in my journal “What questions should I ask myself to reflect on this year?”.  I wanted to purely reflect on this year before thinking about next year.  It was hard not to get into questions like…so what would I do differently next year?  I wanted to really focus on this year first.



So here are my questions below. Please add any further ideas for questions in the comments box below.   I’m going to spend this week answering them for myself and then I will…

Growing up in a country mining town, I was surrounded by racism, sexism and bigotry.  It would have been easy for me to have adopted this way of ‘thinking’, but thankfully I didn’t.

I am blessed to have met some of the most amazing, beautiful, open-minded people from all corners of the …

Hi everyone....my blog post today is a re-blog. Its written by  Peter Crocker, Marketer and Business copywriter, http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/member/34023/contributor

...The Best Part is when i Read - You may be Flying Solo - but you're not alone. DANG! shot an arrow right into my beating heart. And I wrote an invoice this morning. My heart beat faster. YeooooW! how i love this!! gimme…