Beware the Snake or behold it!

In the Chinese astronomical cycles which repeat every 12 years it is the year of the Snake, with it comes caution and focus, from February 10th 2013 – January 30th 2014.

The Snake year is about striking a balance between emotions and actions to avoid problems with Karma. A real need for focus and concentration on gaining sage spirituality and inner strength is key this year.A greater need to take time to understand and feel your way through the year to retain balance and stay on track.

This could be the year you change career as all the testing situations of the past 12 months lead you to be more future focussed. Developing the skills you have acquired to gain promotion or changing your path completely is the true spirit of the snake.

When we loose concentration we feel fatigued and the results we so desperately need become illusive. If we open ourselves up to opportunity and become involved in the journey we will gain more, move further and regain balance across the whole of our lives.

Whatever the next 12 months bring you, remember beware of the snake, learn from it and grow.

新年快乐
xin nian kuai le
Happy New Year

Teamwork

We are so pleased to share with you the language of iMA , in our opinion a fabulous communication tool.

The reason companies have interpersonal conflicts is poor communication.
The reason so many companies struggle with their message is poor external communication.
Louisa has been an accredited practitioner for iMA since 2010, delivering fun workshops and seminars enabling business to flourish and communicate effectively inside and out.

What is iMA?
A colourful, colour coded, communication key!

There are four iMA Dialects.
Every person in the world speaks one dialect naturally, putting you on the same wavelength as 25% of the people in the world.
iMA teaches you the things you need to know to be able to connect effectively with the other three iMA dialects, who look and filter the world differently you.

This communication tool increases mutual liking, trust, understanding and respect, whilst reducing stress and tension, in every area of your life.
iMAs’ systematic approach is Fast, Simple and Easy:

· Inspire and motivate staff

· Develop strong and effective teams and leaders

· Increase productivity and morale

· Improve communication from the inside out

· Increase customer confidence

· Strengthen your brand

Click this link see what colour YOU are
http://www.ima-go.com
It really is a great key to have and opens the doors to endless possibilities.
Ask about our company audits Auto Trader had one and have never looked back.

Success & Frank Gehry’s Mum!

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….

Inspiration!

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.

An Extra Hour – how will you spend it?

I saw this picture and it reminded me of a couple of weeks ago when I ran through the park kicking the leaves, enjoying the autumn colours and the sun on my face. The colours are beginning to fade along with the sun and the nights are drawing in and the clocks went back an hour yesterday!

However it got me thinking that if I could add an extra hour a day, a week or a month what would I want to do with it?

As Geoffrey Chaucer said, ‘Time and Tide waits for no man’ which galvanized me into action I grabbed my ipad and started a list…

An extra hour a day would allow me to;

Be ahead on my social media stuff
Swim more often
Have time to read those books still on my shelf
Spend more time with my children
Talk instead of text my friends
Assist more clients
Go to more networking events
Walk my dog for longer
Inspire more students

Then if I had to hone it down to only an extra hour per week how would I spend the time? Looking at the first list and understanding what supports me and gives me clarity it would have to be either…

Spend time more with my children
or
Walk my dog for longer

So

If I could only have an extra hour per month, well that’s easy based on the fact that the last two choices also motivate and inspire me, what a cracking combination they will be …

I will walk with my children and the dog at least once a month. Not sure that the children will see it that way however maybe the lure could be bacon butties or Sunday lunch in a pub!

What would you do with your extra hour?

Fusion Of Talent!

Great day today working collaboratively with Fuel, Headmasters and teachers at local Schools. The passion and inspirational ideas flowing around the table was astounding. The project is about enabling year 10 and year 11 students to be become the businessmen and women of tomorrow. Playing to the individuals strengths whilst working as a team with a finished marketable product to boot!

I do not want to wish away the summer, however roll on September.

Cause and Effect

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?