by Admin | Feb 18, 2018 | blog
by Admin | Jan 22, 2018 | blog
I have just completed my 2018 strategy and cashflow projections and learnt some valuable lessons I want to share about planning – you must do it if you want to keep growing and if you need help, ask for it. When I was at Flightcentre Elizabeth Street and Queen Street, strategy and cashflow meant share options and bonuses. It was something I just did because it was tied to my income and growth in the business. Until now, I hadn’t realised what a struggle I have had in the last 10 years to be motivated to detail my strategy for my own businesses. In the corporate world, you would never venture into the year without a detailed plan to sink your teeth into. Yet, so many of us in small business start each year without any idea of where we are going, how we are going to get there and how we are going to finance it. Working for Flightcentre, often saw my commission spent before I earnt them with all the travel I wanted to do – it was ok because I was part of a team with the full support of a corporate machine behind me. Once I left the corporate world and went into franchising, my cashflow and strategy was to win awards and be eligible for global conferences and maintain my coach’s coach position. I never really thought too far ahead because again, the structures and systems were there as my backup. However, now I am the leader of my own company, I must be disciplined and motivated to do my strategy and cashflow for...
by Admin | Jan 18, 2018 | blog
Planning can be done by anyone, however it doesn’t make you a success. Success is deeply personal, and I encourage you to clearly define it for yourself. This can take time until you are satisfied with the answer to what is success to you? After 10 years in Brisbane, my family and I took long service leave for 10 weeks and travelled to visit family around the world. One of my objectives was to clearly define what success was to me. I was set to franchise my company and realised that I had coached many franchisors who were lost on the journey to success. In fact, I had been a franchisee and never clearly knew what I wanted from my business or life each year just ran on from the last. Do you know what success is? I believe planning should stem from knowing what your why is in life in order to put it all in context. You see if you just accumulate more stuff without the essence of becoming more – your stuff will lead you to stuff all. Sitting at my brother’s lake house in Louisiana, I wrote in my journal just after my 40th birthday that success to me is being loved by the men I respect and respected by the women I love. Now I could set a plan in place to become crystal clear on who were the men I respected and the women I loved. I have since connected with these people directly to get a clearer plan on how I could collaborate with them to create a better life. I believe...
by Admin | Jan 15, 2018 | blog
As the tears flooded from my eyes and snot starting dripping from my nose – not one of the hundreds of attendees handed me a tissue? Thinking back to Entrepreneurs at RACV Royal Pines in 2013, the facilitator was answering my desperate question “How do I know what my purpose is?” You could have heard a pin drop, so many wished they had the guts to stand up and be coached in front of the group but too many have seen the vulnerability it takes – or perhaps courage to seize opportunities like these. It was explained to me then and is so clear to me now that your purpose finds you. It is never for us to worry as we can never be off track or missing it. In fact, the advice that made me cry was to think of the person who loved me the most – Kent my husband, as the facilitator had me picture how much Kent loved me, he encouraged to tap into that love and challenged me as to why I didn’t love myself that much. My homework assignment was then and continues to be today to love myself. It seemed like a simple enough assignment to learn how to love myself as much as my husband loves me, however I had found it quite tricky. You see I am with me all of the time! It was me who dropped her brand new iPhone and cracked the screen, received a speeding fine and ran out of milk all in the same week. It was me that got Harry sunburnt, forgot to transfer...
by Admin | Jan 5, 2018 | blog
by Admin | Nov 7, 2016 | blog
Yesterday I had the privilege of watching the Pan Pac Masters volleyball team competing. New Zealand v’s ACT over 35’s, these men take their volleyball seriously and it was so impressive to me as the captain of the New Zealand team had hand picked my husband to play volleyball some 26 years ago and was still playing and still winning. How do you define winning? See ACT beat New Zealand in the game we watched 3 sets to 1, but this 1 game would never imply that that team is a losing team. You see some Mondays I wake up and focus on all the little games or set matches I have been defeated in and my attitude goes south fast and my fear grows – playing the game IS winning. How fast can you recover from a poor performance will determine your resilience in life and playing games allows you to increase your resilience. I also noticed that the players who could laugh at themselves the most maintained the best performance overall. Do you beat yourself up when you make a mistake or swear at yourself out loud or worse still internally. As a kid I was always hard on myself when I did not perform at the highest standard, I found it impossible to laugh at myself when I let my team down. One of my mentors helped me by saying “you’re just a winner not winning”, this has taken such a pressure off me to learn that winners actually like to win. The area of neuro-science has long been an area that I have explored, by...
