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16/11/2015 by Lisa McDonald

Quote: Obstacles Are Real But …

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“Obstacles are real, but we must determine to succeed in life no matter how big and many they are,”
– Bamigboye Olurotimi

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28/10/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

5 Tips For Strategically Managing Your Time

It is said that good time management can help you to add 2 hours to a person’s daily life.  It can make the difference between the quality of your life or feeling strained.

What Would You Do With Your Extra Time?

What would you do with your time if you could add another 2 hours a day to your life:  Invest it working on your business (rather than in it)?  Enjoy recreational activities eg hobbies, sport?  Further education, training or development?  Relaxation?  Spend it with loved ones?  We all have 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.  However we differ greatly on how we fill our time.

5 Tips For Strategically Improving Your Time Management

You do have choices in how you focus, allocate and use your time.   [Read more…]

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02/10/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Closing The Information Gap To Achieve Goal Success

The ability to bridge the gap between what you know currently and what you need to develop knowledge on in order to achieve your goals, is essential to achieving successful outcomes.  Today’s short video explains Dr George Lowenstein’s 1994 Information Gap Theory and how you can increase success by applying this theory.

Here are a couple of key points [Read more…]

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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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Setting goals creates a natural level of perturbation.  Why?   Because you are setting yourself a target to be, do or have something different to where you are in your life now. In order to achieve your goals, [Read more…]

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02/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald

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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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