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The NUMBER 1 Reason You Aren’t Making Sales
After 20 years of coaching high-performing sales teams, I’ve discovered the NUMBER ONE why people feel anxious around selling and aren't making sales. It is all about EGO! Do these conversations (with yourself) sound familiar? ❌ I don’t want to bother them. ❌ I don’t...
Surprising Benefits of Doing Jigsaw Puzzles
Benefits of Jigsaw Puzzles Are you a jigsaw person? Every summer holiday for years, (and years), I find an interesting 1000-piece jigsaw in the shops and set myself a task. Some have certainly been more difficult than others. Matching the colours, the shapes, the...
Why You Must Avoid Dream Stealers
Top Reasons You Must Avoid Dream Stealers at Any Cost. Have you ever had an idea you think is so good it gets you animated just thinking about it? Have you been mulling over a problem feeling a little undecided when what seems to be the perfect answer magically...
The Top 10 Reasons You Should be Writing Your Goals Right Now!
Writing your goals should be your number 1 priority right now. Let’s start with some statistics.A Harvard Business Study found out the following related to goal-setting: Eighty-three percent of respondents had no goals. Fourteen percent of respondents...
Are You Creating Good or Bad Habits?
Which of your habits are good and which are bad? And how do they affect your success? This quote from James Clear really resonated with me. "Think about what you want today, and you'll spend your time. Think about what you want in 5 years, and you'll invest your...
Why Joining a Mastermind Group is Critical to Your Success
With a supportive Mastermind Group, your dreams are achievable. My favourite books of my childhood were the Chronicles of Narnia. They started a lifelong love for me of all things science fantasy. The inventive mind of C.S. Lewis has entertained generations of...
How to Find the Confidence to Speak Up in the Business World
Speaking in front of people is one of the most common phobias out there. But this phobia is particularly harmful in the business world.
How to Create Passive Income and Enjoy Down-Time
I spent this past week enjoying some important downtime. A few days on Hamilton Island now followed by a golf weekend on the Sunshine Coast. Always an advocate of prioritizing physical and mental wellness, I know taking time out of the work environment is vital. In...
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...
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