I want to feel in control! Don’t you? Okay, so I have to confess… I love to feel in control. Not in a freaky way (although my husband my disagree), but in a lovely warm feeling of security kind of way. I rather suspect I’m not alone, however I also rather suspect that many of…
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I remember a story of two guys both driving in thick fog. Fog so thick that they were driving slowly with their heads out the window trying to see…. and bumping heads! It sounds silly, crazy even, but how many of us keep pushing on at work or in our business when we are struggling…
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We’ve all seen the quote “Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life”, and perhaps even the more entrepreneurial version: Love what you do and you’ll do weekends, long nights, sacrifice time with the family…..etc. For the purposes of this article (and the fact I really, really wanted to use…
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How our expectations and our need for instant outcomes are stopping us from being successful. Hero to Zero Okay, so last week I was definitely feeling in Hero mode… I ran an amazing conference, everything went well, feedback was fantastic and my goal of creating a life-changing experience was achieved. I was also struggling health…
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Today I’m mad… angry that is (in case you weren’t sure). It’s all because of an opinion piece on the ABC – originally from The Conversation. Camila Nelson’s piece “Friday essay: family as ‘brand’ – the rise of the digital mumpreneur” focuses on exploitative practices of some so-called mumpreneurs. In doing so, regardless of the intention,…
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I used to be a good saver… at least I always thought I was. You know, $5 per week pocket money and I had over $300 in my savings account. So lets see… 600 times my weekly “salary” – WOW! Who wouldn’t be happy with that kind of savings impact – particularly if you could have…
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Procrastination VS Motivation – 2 sides of the same coin? I’ve been wondering about this lately, for a number of reasons. One of the reasons is that in one of my businesses (Learn2Learn) I write a lot about Motivation, but on the other hand, here in my Coaching business (TMRutherford) I focus on overcoming Procrastination…
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Start before you are ready. Have you ever noticed yourself say something like I’d really like to do/ be ….. but I don’t have (time, money, skills, other) Welcome to the world of Self-Sabotage. We semi-consciously stop ourselves from ever achieving our dreams or reaching our potential. Instead we settle for Plan B, or perhaps…
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