When Preparation Meets Opportunity
By · CommentsWhen Opportunity strikes it is too late to prepare!
Always be prepared! You will never know when that life defining Opportunity is going to present itself!
How often have you had regrets about unexpected opportunities that presented themselves and wished if you had only planned better, taken that course, put in that little bit of extra effort, studied a bit harder, thought a little deeper, accepted that invitation when it presented itself, put more energy into actively building a relationship?
It has been my experience (and I don’t say the word lightly) that nothing that I have ever invested time and effort into has ever gone wasted. And only if I put my whole heart into whatever it was I was doing! Read More→
Grow Up to Go Up
By · CommentsLife is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. – Morihei Ueshiba
One of my clients asked me recently, “How can I grow my organization?”. The answer is simple. Grow your people! Most business owners and Corporations appear to focus on adding processes to improve their performance, seeking technical expertise and outwitting the competition. And yet they don’t seem to grow as fast as they would like and are forever running at top speed on the same groove just to maintain the same position.
The only thing that differentiates a growing organization from a stagnant one is the intentional development and growth of its best resource. The individuals that work in the Organization. No matter what their skill set, motivation and effort…If they are not growing, they are dead. And you cannot force growth in an organization or in life, if we have withered people with dead dreams and no motivation to improve.
As in Leadership, there are some basic Laws for Growth!
Take a tree. If it is growing, it will have its roots grounded in fertile soil. Its Branches bear green shoots at its growing tips. It reaches towards the sunlight and is nurtured and nourished by the nutrients in the soil and by steady access to a water source. And most importantly, in due season it bears fruit!
The same is true for any person!
Castles in the Air
By · CommentsIf you have built Castles in the Air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau.
The one thing that distinguishes us from other living beings is our imagination and the wild dreams that we can conjure up are just castles in the air with no basis or foundation in reality!
Coming Home to West Palm Beach!
By · CommentsThere is nothing half so pleasant as Coming home again! Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Of all the decisions I have taken since I started my business, joining the John Maxwell Team has been undoubtedly the best one! 
To be taught and mentored by John C.Maxwell himself and by a team of Mentors who give Excellence and Heart a new Meaning is a great honour and privilege.
These are people of Integrity and Passion, people whose values resonate with my own.
John often reminds us that we bear his name and that he is our friend. We affectionately joke about it, but make no mistake he is our friend. He is a man who walks his talk, a leader who humbly shares his heart and stories with unsurpassed humour and love.
I am proud to belong to this team and to call them family! Feels just like coming home! Read More→
Mayan Mystery – Welcome 2012!
By · CommentsEvery End is a New Beginning – Proverbs
And so another year ends and a New one begins. Welcome 2012!
Everything that was a mystery at the start of the year is now ancient history and the best as always, is yet to come.
We can look back at a year that was loaded with new opportunities for growth, new friendships made, unique challenges, most of which were overcome with great determination, experiences of new emotions, places, accomplishments.
Just look at all we are hearing about the Mystery of the Mayan Calendar and the escalating predictions of the end of the world as we know it on December 21st, 2012.
The doomsday theories abound. Is there any truth in this? But does it mean the end of the world or is it just a routine end of one calendar cycle and the beginning of a new one? Only Time will tell. Read More→
