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11/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Quote:  If You Want To Build A Ship …

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood,

divide the work and give orders.  Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

– Antoine de St Exupery

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09/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

What’s Driving Your Education?

As humans, we have an inbuilt desire to grow. This may show up in many ways including fascination with a topic, development required for a new role, boredom, and dissatisfaction with the way things are.  Each in their own way compel us to learn, to educate ourselves.

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07/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

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“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.”
– Chinese Proverb

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04/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

The Role Of Perturbation In Goal Achievement – Part 2/2

Achieving success your life goals and business goals requires you to transform and evolve. It requires you to discover and apply new ways of operating which are in alignment with your goal.  Otherwise you will achieve the same old results – as the old saying goes: “insanity –  doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”.

As I said in my last blog, perturbation is a natural part of organisms surviving.  It’s also a natural part of surviving and thriving in life.  You can’t avoid change, life will happen along the way whether you want it to or not.

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If you look at any success story in any industry, profession or area you will find that they have had to overcome adversity in a variety of ways in order to create their success.   The adversities they faced, disturbed them from their normal way of operating and created pressure to respond differently.  This transformational pressure, which enabled them to achieve success, is part of the process referred to as Perturbation.

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Perturbation can be defined as:  a disturbance of motion, course, arrangement, or state of equilibrium; especially: a disturbance of the regular and usually elliptical course of motion of a celestial body that is produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion.   This process of disturbance or irregularity [Read more…]

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