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25/11/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Letting Go Of Frustration: A Catalyst For Important Changes

Everyone Experiences Frustration

Every one feels frustrated from time to time. If you want to live an inspiring life, it is essential that you learn to overcome your frustrations. Otherwise you will stay stuck in repeating old patterns of thinking and behaving, and achieving your goals will be difficult.

Frustration can be defined as an emotional response to a circumstance where you feel you are being obstructed from arriving at your personal or business goal. The more important the goal is to you, the greater the level of your frustration [Read more…]

07/10/2015 by Lisa McDonald

Strategic Life Creation

In today’s 24 hour world of technology, services and commitments we live very full lives. So it’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of life. However it is vital for your well-being, that you remember that – your health, capacity to perform and achieve goals, and ability to enjoy life is dependent on you looking after yourself. One important way that you can do that is through strategic life creation.

What is Strategic Life Creation?

Strategic Life Creation is about consciously creating your life based on clearly defining your vision, goals, values and aspirations. It’s not about creating a fictitious fantasy about an over-idyllic life. It’s about considering and designing [Read more…]

30/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Bridging The Knowledge Gap Strategically

OK, so you’ve set your goal – what you will achieve, why you want to achieve it, how you will achieve it, and when it will be achieved by. The next step is to bridge the gap between where you are now are where you want to be (end results).

Bridging Your Education Gap

The first step is to assess where your knowledge gaps are. Start by mapping out the following three areas of your current education:

Where you do have the type of knowledge, skills and expertise, and at the level required to assist you in achieving your goal.
Where you have some knowledge, skills and expertise but at a lower level than is required to achieve your goals.
Where you don’t have the knowledge, skills and expertise that you require to achieve your goals.

Mapping out these three [Read more…]

23/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald

Learning What You Don’t Know

In order to achieve new results in your life you will need to educate yourself. One of the keys to achieving your goals is to learn what you don’t know.

Four Stages Of Learning

There are four stages of learning in the knowledge building process. Each of which you will pass through on the way [Read more…]

17/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

The Importance of Diversity of Thinking In Achieving Goals

Everything you experience in life shapes and determines your views. This includes events and beliefs you are exposed to in relation to family, school, social, work, local and global community; mental, physical, spiritual; financial, hobbies/interests; travel, and much more.

These experiences, based on whether you perceive them as good or bad will, cause you to have a corresponding emotional reaction, ie positive or negative. As a result, you will develop certain viewpoints which [Read more…]