No Time For Weeding? Think Again!

With a long weekend to finally get stuck into my somewhat neglected yard, I was amazed by how quickly the weeds had sprouted. Just the sheer speed at which things can take root when we’re busy and have our attention on other areas is amazing. As I completed my overdue chores, my thoughts turned to how quickly the ‘weeds’ in a business can sprout when those in charge get busy and don’t make time to tend to their business ‘garden’...

Don’t Stand So Close To Me!
I was in a line waiting at an ATM when I felt someone bump into me from behind. They apologised but it still made all my ‘spider senses’ fire off warning signals at once. I don’t ever carry my wallet in my back pocket but it still made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. Ask yourself, what would you do, how would you react, what would you say? Fight, flight or stay?...

18 Minutes in 16 Years for 3 Olympic Gold Medals
I recently had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Drew Ginn (Australian Olympic Team Triple Gold Medallist and part of the Awesome Foursome). One of the privileges of being a keynote speaker is being able to learn from other speakers – both from the speaking skills, techniques and methodology plus their core messages they are relaying to the audience. Sometimes I take a couple of notes and other times I come away with pages of value and I wanted to share with you some key points from the 5 pages of notes that I took whilst listening to Drew last week.