Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

“The brave may not live for ever but the cautious may not live at all.” Richard Branson

When I think of success I think of Richard Branson. A highly successful entrepreneur who has both successfully and unsuccessfully created over 400 businesses often entering into industries that many would avoid.

He is a worldwide celebrity known for living life to the fullest with a tendency for adventure, an appreciation for having fun, and a passion for all that he does, sometimes controversially so.

This I like a business 101 course with Richard Branson as he shares his own business and life’s lessons, learning’s and principles, with over 40 years experience, there is certainly a lot to be taken from it.

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“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a mans growth without destroying his roots.” Frank A. Clark

Do I encourage feedback?  Feedback and criticism can be hard to swallow but, it’s essential if you want to make powerful improvements and progress in life. In this episode I share my thoughts on what feedback I choose to listen to, and how I handle and respond to it.

This is critical – Why? The reality we live in is directly a creation of how we choose to interact with it. There is a great quote by Charles R. Swindoll thats states, “life is 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react to it.” As this relates to feedback I suggest how you react to feedback is more important than the feedback itself.

I value my continual self-improvement. In efforts to become my best potential in life I listen to constructive feedback and draw from it the powerful benefits it can have.

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” Ken Blanchard.

Enjoy this thought. Peace, passion & purpose.

Summary

Dov Gordon helps consultants, coaches and entrepreneurs develop a consistent flow of their ideal clients. He is known as the “The Alchemist Entrepreneur.” Why? Alchemy usually refers to turning lead into gold. Mythical or not, the idea is you must work on the underlying structure of the metal in order to turn something common into something priceless.

Dov avoids using flashy tricks and tactics, and instead works on the core concepts of your marketing message and systematic implementation, the idea of alchemy spoke to him – and his clients agree, the results are truly gold. (more…)

7 Ways to Enjoy Your Life More

“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things.” Kenneth Branagh

Here is what I have learnt over the last few years on my own transformation in finding more peace and happiness. Do I follow them perfectly? No, not always. Yet, the more I venture forward the more I find myself connecting with these ‘values’.

The help me find more purpose in what I do. They help me be more grateful. The allow me to express and be myself. And above all they seem to ground me and in that allowing me to enjoy this life more greatly.

• Vision and purpose
• Follow your passion(s)
• Wake up well
• Be thankful- count your blessings
• Be kind to yourself
• Help others and offer value
• Don’t Take Life Too Seriously, Smile and laugh

I hope you can some value from my thoughts and would love to here your thoughts also. Perhaps I have missed some key elements. Leave your comments, questions etc here.

Until next time peace, passion & purpose.

Summary

Dana has been impacting the lives of people around the world for 25 years. He has delivered motivational talks around the world to a variety of audiences. His speaking skills have been recognized by Toastmasters International, from which he received the title of World Champion of Public Speaking in 1992.

Dana was reared in Compton, California, as one of twelve children. He became blind when he was four years old and pursued his school studies using Braille and tape recordings. He received a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Yale University in 1974 and his law degree from the University of Southern California in 1977. (more…)

Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels by Loretta Breuning

“You may say you’re against status, but if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are.”Loretta Breuning

If it feels good, it has side effects.This was a really cool read! Enjoyable & insightful into what triggers my own personal happiness and even unhappiness.

I don’t often think about what makes me happy and probably like many of us take things in life for granted. I do things also that Loretta would describe as my happy habits. Pathways I have learnt from experience that have made me feel good. Good and bad ones included.

When I am down, unhappy, I am aware. I reflect heavily in my down times. I feel pain; I place too much pressure on myself, and judge myself. Life is not and cannot always be total bliss. We are not designed to always be happy.

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we wish to improve we must continue to challenge ourselves. Here is my thought as I work through a challenge of my own to help inspire you to start your new challenge and face it with passion.

What have you been putting off? What have you been holding back from tackling? What is that challenge in any aspect of your life, health, finances, relationships or other that would help progress you closer to the life you desire to live.

Decide what it is, however large or small, set it today, commit to it, understand the why and go of it. The challenges do not diminish life, the challenges amplify life.

Summary

Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners and he is also the host Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies.

Jim is best known internationally as ‘The Dream Business Coach’ and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate ‘done-for-you’ newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries. (more…)

How To Get Yourself Out Of Bed With Ease

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” Bob Marley

Today I share my lessons of how I’ve gone from waking up very poorly to waking up in my opinion extremely well – most of the time at least.

1. Have Reason
2. Have Plan
3. Sleep Well
4. The Opportunity Clock
5. Incentive
6. Action
7. Exercise
8. Time & practice

I hope you get some inspiration and encouragement from my thoughts here to wake up well so you can really start living your life more fully.

Peace, passion and purpose.

Summary

Zen Cryar DeBrücke is the author of Your Inner GPS. She is an internationally renowned teacher, speaker, and coach whose programs have helped people all over the world transform their personal and business lives for the better.

How can I stop feeling so stressed out by life? What is my purpose? Why am I here?

Each of us is born with access to a powerful tool called an Internal Guidance System (IGS).  Not unlike the GPS system that is built into cars, its purpose is to guide us through our lives by letting us know whether our thoughts and actions are moving us closer to, or further away from, the things we most want to create in our lives. (more…)