Today I am making a shameless plug. I’m asking you to consider spending $25 to buy a copy of my recently published book, Beneath Dark Skies, to support people trying to rebuild their lives after the Black Saturday bushfires that happened three years ago last week. I...
What does Valentine’s Day mean to you? A chance to show someone how much you love them? A tacky event that benefits the retails sector? Or something else? This year I am choosing to make it my business to use Valentine’s Day to bring people together to contribute to...
What are you working on right now? Is it in line with the plan you wrote at the start of the of the day week? Or are you following a trail of distracting emails and phone calls as the day slips out of your control? Time management is something we all strive to improve...
Are you too busy to eat lunch? Or maybe you’re the kind of person that likes to scroll through e-mails on your smart phone with some kind of snack in the other hand? The era of the long lunch could well be over as people now cram as much as possible into their day –...
More more more! How much are you squeezing into every day? How much more do you think is possible? Never before have people pushed themselves as hard as they do now, and an unfortunate by-product of this is the dreaded ‘stupid mistake’. A stupid mistake is something...
Single people who missed out on a New Year’s Eve date have another opportunity to find love – while doing good for their community. With Valentine’s Day approaching, m.a.d.woman (making a difference) is looking for singles with a good heart to help combat urban...
Have you laid out some plans for this year yet? How a plan for this week, or even today? This time of year is often really good for crafting plans and setting up our agendas across short, medium and long term time frames. It’s an opportunity to think about what you...
Exercise more! Give up coffee! Save money! Start a business! See family more! Lose weight! Give up junk food! Get a promotion! Did you pick any of those on New Year’s Eve to tackle for the year ahead? It happens every year. People I know get ambitious with their...
The week before festive season break is generally one of complete madness. Many people are at work trying to get an impossibly large task lists completed and signed off before suppliers, customers, co-workers and colleagues shut their doors for around two weeks....
I’m doing this blog post at what many people would describe in frustration as ‘the last minute’. I’m using the last possible moment available to get it finished. Is it because I am lazy? No. Unmotivated? No. Super-duper busy. Yep. I actually purposely left it till the...