Monthly Archives: May 2007

Why Mistakes Are Good For You

This is one of my favourite quotes which I was reminded of when I made a cack-handed attempt to re-produce it for a client. It's from one of my favourite books (the one to which I always turn if I need a big boost) - You 2 (You Squared) by Price Pritchett. And the quote? "If you ...

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Research You Can’t Afford To Ignore

This story on the BBC News website today is well worth taking note of. Especially if you use the internet to market your services (or you want to). And if you want to market to women but thought they didn't use the internet as much as men. It demonstrates just how quickly things are changing.

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WARNING: Another Controversial Post

The Biggest Mistakes Made By C.H.E.K Practitioners ...and Fitness Pro's and small businesses in the health & wellness industry everywhere. (there, see I'm not being "chekkist" nor critical... quite the opposite, hopefully this will help people from making the most common mistakes which can hold them back and learn from the ones I made too). So here they ...

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Our Year (In Numbers) So Far…

We've now been on the road for just over 3 months. Exciting, challenging, stressful, awe-inspiring, thought-provoking. It's been all of these and more. If you like random facts, our year so far can be summed up as follows...we've: Slept in 11 different beds Changed time zones 7 times Lived in 6 different apartments Taken 6 plane rides Made 5 new, global ...

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It’s the small things that help

Maximising my efficiency is something I've been pondering about. When I want to be I'm extremly productive, very fast and very efficient - one of my old clients called me the 'Human Dynamo'. When I don't want to be, I dawdle, procrastinate and generally find plenty of things to faff about with. Organising my laptop however ...

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Are you disgusted too?

I'm going to try my very bestest not to turn this into a rant because the inspiration for & purpose of this post is not how I feel about this, but about something really 'remarkable' that I've just watched and thought it was well worth sharing. So, what is it that I find so disgusting? (...aside ...

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Running Your Own Business

I'm feeling a lot better now - thanks to those of you who sent supportive emails & comments. Following on from doing just what I want for a day, we then had a lovely Friday afternoon 'off' yesterday and went to see an area called the beaches here in Toronto. It was gorgeous and was just ...

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Authentic Businesses

I use this word quite a bit with my clients "authentic" - encouraging them to be honest, authentic and 'real' people in their marketing & running of their business. And I've just read a blog post by one of my first coaches which has inspired this post and prompted me to write what ...

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Now I know why I do what I do

As part of a coaching program I'm doing, I completed the Kolbe Strengths Finder test last night...interesting results. I'm quite good at knowing myself & analysing my strengths & weaknesses and I got quite a bit of it right. What was interesting however, is that it helped point out that some of my ...

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