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Sit down. Breathe. Write. Repeat...How Your ‘Unfair Advantage’ Becomes One Of Your Superpowers!
Easily underestimated, hidden, forgotten or lost in the day-to-day hubbub of 'doing what you do' and yet this is exactly where so many of your special secret powers lie! Do you even know about them? Working with professional women who want to raise their...
Strategic For Your Profile – And So Rarely Done!
Do you show up when you’re trying to be heard? How often do you attend a meeting, an event, a conference and this happens? Someone asks a question or requests some information and they don’t give you, the audience, their details. When it comes to showing up at a...
How Often Are You Up Close – And Personal?
There’s no substitute for the ‘LIVE’ or personalised version of You It’s easy to get lulled into this false sense of reality isn’t it? Instead of picking up the phone to speak to someone, you drop them an email or send them a message or a text. Instead of...
How To Get Your Message Across With A Story
A Simple Question to Ask Yourself Think of any film you’ve seen that grabbed you. What about a TV series you follow, or a book you read and re-read or share? They’ll all have grabbed your attention and kept it with a story. The story that’s threaded and woven...
Do You Scare People Off When You Speak?
How to inspire instead of being scary We’ve all heard someone start off with “Well, the trouble is” or “What worries me is” haven’t we? Or what about the classic “Now, our first problem is” – talk about putting you on your back foot and priming you for ‘trouble...
The Difference A Good Name Makes
How to influence action with ease It’s often the difference between success and failure, or ‘yes please’ and ‘no thanks’ – naming a product, naming a project, naming a team, naming whatever. Giving something a name which is compelling, inviting, something that...
Word Up: Tenacious
Welcome to the "Word Up” – inspiration and insights on everyday words; exploring the power and meaning behind them. “When words are kind and true, they can change our world” ~ Buddha Tenacious > Not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object hat...
Surprise Yourself: Your Influence And Inspiration
Notice what you notice That expression “busy doing something else” is where your ideas and inspiration often comes from. It gives you the sense of being absorbed, concentrating, focused on something so other thoughts are put aside or take a back seat. It’s something...
Word Up: Elegant
Welcome to the "Word Up” – inspiration and insights on everyday words; exploring the power and meaning behind them. “When words are kind and true, they can change our world” ~ Buddha Elegant > Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner. So, when you...
Choose Your High Five Words
The idea is that you choose five words to use to guide you, to help you make decisions, to make it easier to say Yes or No to things. A lot of people have suggested picking one word for your year. I believe five help you more. They seem to interconnect and...