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Success & Frank Gehry’s Mum!

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Success means something different to all of us.

However we gain personal, professional or sporting Success it all comes down to very simple actions. I found this wonderful, short at only 3.33mins TED talk by Richard St John.

Success

As Frank Gehry says his mum is responsible for the push action in his life! We all need someone to Motivate us and make us raise our game. What could be holding you back from being the success you wish to be?

As a designer, a closet architect and a mum, I think Mrs Gehry senior must be very proud of her sons’ Success and his amazing contribution to achitecture around the world.

Look at the 8 simple rules and see which is missing in your life or needs more attention. Focus on that action and go for it.

If you need a push call me….

Route 66, 76, or 86

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Whoosh… where did January go?

I am so glad that I made the time and I came up with a plan, a sort of route to navigate 2012.

It started well, collaborating on an interior design for a boarding school. Designing inspirational bedrooms and motivational study spaces for teens.

As well as working with the students on a one to one basis covering areas like confidence, focus and time keeping.

Individuals have invested in 1;1 Power Ups where walking and talking reap huge rewards, as well as 60 minutes to Success. Along with running workshops with business leaders on Communicating Effectively with your staff , Confidence in the current climate and Making Time.

None of this would be possible if I didn’t have a plan.

One of my well thumbed books is by Stephen Covey ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ Where he asks are you governed by the compass or the clock?

If you have a compass, a plan, a route you will be effective in realizing your goals, rather than being busy and realizing nothing.

If we define the direction we want to travel and actually commit it to paper it has a higher chance of being accomplished. Writing things down like instructions, lists or goals, is a psycho neural activity and helps imprint the information.

So grab a pen, a piece of paper, a compass and plan your route for the best year ever.
Remember “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” ~Victor Kiam

Great song from Depeche Mode

Raise Your Game

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As we leave 2011 take a moment to remember all the wonderful things you have experienced and accomplished…

For me it has been a year of meeting and working with remarkable people.
They have made me ‘raise my game’, as they say in America, to be the best I can be.
I realize that who and what we surround ourselves with is key to who we are and will therefore become.

One of my personal goals last year was to try and meet Keanu Reeves and Steve Jobs.
I will endeavor to realize the former however sadly the later is no longer with us.

The passing of Steve Jobs galvanized me into action and living in the moment, don’t waste time as it is not ours to keep.

I have included two of my favorite quotes from Steve Jobs and wish you all the best 2012 YOU can possibly make it.

On Motivation
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
Business Week 1998

On Money
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful … that’s what matters to me.”
Wall Street Journal 1993

Cheers Everyone and Happy New Year!

Inspiration!

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I was talking to a fascinating and diverse group of people recently about how limiting beliefs really do limit us!

When we tell our selves we can’t do something, we wont pass a test or just fail at whatever we are trying to achieve, we usually do.

I shared with them the story of when I was a student and learning to drive, in Plymouth.
Plymouth is very hilly with lots of those double mini roundabouts and at the time more traffic lights than Milton Keynes!
On one of my first sojourns out, I stalled the car several times, like many learners before me. Drivers behind me were impatient, I was self conscious and felt stupid. This had a huge impact on how I saw learning to drive.

Even before I was actually in my beautiful, turquoise, VW Beetle my parents had bought me, I knew I was going to stall the car.
Actually I didn’t ‘know’ I was going to stall the car at all.
The negative self talk in my head was reinforcing all those terrible emotions and making me back away from learning to drive.

I was lucky I had a brilliant teacher who with positive repetition and praise told me I will be a good driver.
When I did stall the car, he burst out laughing and told me it didn’t matter, reinforcing that I will be a good driver.

I don’t want to tempt fate, suffice to say no problems and no stalling since 1991,Thanks Dad!

It also reminded me of the very brilliant Caroline Casey

Caroline Casey

Remember how you speak to yourself has a massive impact on what you will achieve.
Choose a belief to change, put it in a positive sentence and repeat often in the present tense-be an Inspiration!
At the end of our really challenging session most of the Limiting Beliefs had left the room.

Cause and Effect

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I have listened to a dialogue between two people who most certainly have very different perspectives. Their own personal maps of the world influence what they see, hear and feel. Consequently this will have a cause and effect, not always a positive one!

“Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.” Frederick Langbridge

Have you found it difficult to alter your position, be more tolerant and experience something from a different perspective? Are you a stars or mud person?

How would it feel to look at something differently, what is the worse that could happen?