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In February, I blogged about the need to get a focus for 2014 (click here). Maybe you have a theme or a focus that you had determined for yourself at that time. Are you still focused on it? Has it stayed in your consciousness? Mine, if you recall, was PROFILE. This was the year to […]
Welcome to our brainFIT blog. Our goal is to provide you with a journey into the workings of your brain, and how to optimise it’s potential at every stage of your life, and for every part of your life – personal and professional. In today’s fast moving…demanding…post-information age world, we can simply no longer underestimate […]
Happy Easter to everyone! This blog will be moving to fortnightly as from today. In the alternate week I will be writing a blog focused on ‘Cultivating a High Performance Brain’. If you would like to receive that blog, and I’d love to take you on the journey with me, please sign up here. <CLICK […]
Funny how we can have the same goals month after month, year after year…and yet never feel like we are getting any closer. Or at least we can feel totally frustrated that we can’t achieve something that seems so simple on the face of it. As leaders (or really busy people), with so much going […]
Last week I attended a ‘Chicks in Business’ lunch event and the guest speaker was Mark Bouris (Wizard Home Loans, The Apprentice – Australia). He told a fascinating story about his first big deal with Kerry Packer and referred to Kerry’s unique and powerful ‘Practical Intelligence’. After a 3-6 month long due diligence period which […]
We can sometimes be arrogant enough to believe that our INTENTIONS equal our IMPACT. We all have such great intentions, however, the impact we have on others as a result of our conversations, choices and behaviours can be mis-aligned with those intentions. And the most difficult bit, is that when that happens, people will rarely […]
Brain Exercise Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it is important that we keep mentally alert. The saying: “If you don’t use it, you will lose it” also applies to the brain. Below is a very private way to gauge your loss or non-loss of […]
You are having difficulty deciding on a course of action with your current project. You approach the project manager for assistance. Your project manager says ‘Sure. Tell me what the problem is.” And you do. After about a half hour of you telling the story (and now you are feeling REALLY concerned about it), your […]
What did you have to stuff up in order to become an expert? Some say our life journey is predefined. Some say we choose our life journey (with all it’s joys and adversities) in order to learn some lessons in this lifetime. Structured religions believe that what happens, happens for a reason. What ever you […]
In our last blog, I mentioned our B.E.T.T.E.R Conversations (TM) model. The acronym stands for: B – Brain-friendly conversations work that with our brain, not against it. E – Emotionally balanced conversations where strong emotions don’t get in the way. T – Toward focus … making sure we focus on the right ‘hardwiring’ in […]