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Are You the Hero of Your Life?
When I was invited to a breakfast event this week, I didn't have any idea of who the speaker was going to be. Wow! Was I pleasantly surprised? When Dr Denish Palipana was a medical student, he suffered a severe spinal injury in a car crash and was...
The Power of the Follow-Up & Making More Sales
Are you leaving money on the table by not following up? What a week? In a good sense. I have been doing what I tell my coaching clients to do...and that is to follow up on your quotes and proposals. I admit I have been guilty of letting it slip when I get 'busy' and...
Increasing Sales by Understanding the Sales Game
How can you increase sales by understanding and implementing the Sales Game? Forbes magazine has acknowledged the increase in the number of entrepreneurial women has grown exponentially in recent years. Starting up in business can be an exciting time for the woman...
How to Make More Sales Without Selling Anything!
I ran a Sales Masterclass workshop last week and was excited by how the attendees really got the lesson that it isn't about selling, it is about solving problems. They learned that the most successful salespeople are the ones who find pressing customer problems. That...
Top Strategies to Overcome Sales Reluctance
What strategies do you use to overcome sales reluctance? While we were in lockdown last week, I had a client ask me for my opinion about cold-calling businesses to share information about their product. It was an interesting question as I had been thinking much the...
Tips fo Remaining Positive and Achieving Your BEST Results in Tough Times
How can you achieve your best results in tough times? I mentioned in last week's blog how much I enjoy watching the Olympic events. And what a week it has been? I am super impressed by the depth of the Australian talent in a diverse range of sports. From Kayaking to...
The Top 5 Things I learned from GOLD Medallists that have Made Me More Sales
Watching the Olympians win GOLD has taught me a lot about how to make more sales. Are you addicted to watching the Olympics like me? I'm a huge fan and find myself drawn to the TV (which I have on in two rooms, on two different game channels) rather than staying...
5 Crucial Lessons to Live Fearlessly & BE Empowered Everyday
Living fearlessly is the path to empowerment. “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” ~Marianne Williamson There are many factors you have inherited from your parents. From your mum you may have inherited color blindness, male pattern baldness...
5 Concrete Ways the Right Mentor Can Change Your Life
Have you benefited from mentoring in your life and business? Over the past 18 or so years I've been involved in a public speaking, club based organisation. From day one I was thrust into leadership and speaking roles that blew any remnants of what I had called my...
3 Top Methods to STOP Making Excuses and Get Things Done
How often do you make excuses for not doing a task that you know you 'should' do, but choose to do something else that is easier or more fun instead. There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes, “If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.” In...
Why Succeeding at Road Trip Equals Improved Business Building for You
Are you wondering what a road trip and business success have in common? Having just returned from a week travelling over 4000 kilometers through outback Queensland, I'm super pumped to share my learnings from the trip. Learnings that not only apply to a driving...
3 Proven Tips to Mastering How to Overcome Challenges
How do your prepare for unexpected challenges? I hope you weren't too inconvenienced last Tuesday when the power went out across much of South East Queensland, if you live in that part of the world. For those who don't live in SEQ, the problem was...
10 Reasons A Mentor is a Must
In both business and personal life, we should all be seeking to develop our skills, continually learn new things, and challenge ourselves on a regular basis. This naturally takes a degree of devotion, and life can often get in the way of our self-improvement efforts....
Luck is When Preparation Meets Opportunity
Oprah Winfrey famously quoted: “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” I know, I have lived by this mantra all my working career. When I was a mum of young children I began planning the job I wanted that would give me flexibility and fit in with my...
How to Build Self-Confidence – 3 Easy Steps
Self-confidence is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. Feeling confident in yourself might depend on the situation. It's not always easy to be confident in yourself, particularly...
When Losing Control Sends You Running For Cover
Are you able to let go of control? At this time of year I'm usually planning my yearly overseas holiday. Obviously not the case in 2021. Like many others, my 2020 travel plans didn't come to fruition either. In particular, I was disappointed the retreat I was...
Why Setting Goals is Vital to Business Success
Goal setting is the first step of successful goal achievement. It marks your first point toward success. It’s when you switch from a passive state to being involved in life. Why do 3% of Harvard MBAs make ten times as much as the other 97% combined? The answer is...
Success or Failure, What is the Lesson?
Walt Disney was sacked from the Kansas City Star because he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. One of Stephen King’s most successful books, Carrie, was rejected by 30 publishers. Oprah Winfrey’s first job in TV ended abruptly after the producer declared she was...
Why Vulnerable Isn’t A Sign of Weakness
“It’s all good. It’s all good. No, no…I mean it. What? Oh I know because I missed the bus, I got trapped in the storm, caught the flu, missed out on that major contract and I got fired…but it’s all good.” What the heck? Maybe the scenarios haven’t been quite as...
3 Ways to Launch Sales in the New Now
Are you tired of it yet? I don’t mean the lockdown, social distancing, and self-isolation. I am talking about the use of the word ‘Unprecedented’. Unprecedented means without previous instance, unparalleled, extraordinary, and revolutionary. Granted,...
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