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The Cancer Council - Relay For Life - A team event that I participate in annually to raise much-needed funds for research, education and support programs. If you would like to support me in this, please click on The Cancer Council - Relay For Life link above to donate

Personal Motivation and Inspiration

Good Things - Want to fill your head (and your soul) with lots of positive information? For a wealth of good news, good stories, good actions and good people, visit this website.

Random Acts of Kindness - There’s a whole site about this, which includes free e-cards, free lesson plans for schools and a facility to set up your own Kindness web site!

The Foundation for a Better Life - has a mission to “encourage adherence to a set of quality values through personal accountability and by raising the level of expectations of performance of all individuals regardless of religion or race. Through these efforts, the Foundation wants to remind individuals they are accountable and empowered with the ability to take responsibility for their lives and to promote a set of values that sees them through their failures and capitalizes on their successes.” Worth a visit.

Business Owners

The Entrepreneur Business Centre - (a division of CCH) is a niche small business site specifically targeting people who are in the process of starting or developing a small business. They offer a free 7-day trial subscription to their Information Resource Centre – plus heaps of information of importance to the new or established small business owner.

Entrepreneur - Solutions for Growing Businesses. Covers Money and Finance, Sales and Marketing, Technology and e-Business … and much more!

Research

E Marketer - A good source for Internet and E-Business Research and Analysis can be found at this website.

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Are you living your full potential?

In my work, I frequently speak with people who are disenchanted with their lives.

“I feel so frustrated … I’ve been doing the same thing at work for years and I just can’t seem to get ahead.”

“I feel lost. I know I am capable of doing more but have no idea how to achieve what I really want to do.”

“Maybe I’m just not meant to do anything else. I mean, who am I to want more?”

I find this very sad.

Why we've got to stop talking about "Work/Life Balance"!

Work/Life Balance doesn't exist - and while we continue to strive to achieve it, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment.

Why?

The phrase itself suggests a couple things that are inherent in the problem:

What does it take to achieve Work/Life Balance? (is it even possible?)

Frankly, no. It's not possible - and we are causing ourselves untold frustration and disappointment while we keep trying to achieve it!

Why do I say this?

Well, think for a minute about the phrase itself -

The Secret to handling ‘Difficult’ People

(WARNING: Your life as you know it is about to change)

“How can I handle difficult people?”

Answer – you can’t.

“Wait – what? You mean I’m stuck with them in my life?”

Answer – it all depends on how you look at it.

Your Good-Enough List (A critical Sanity-Saving Tool)

I recently attended a three-day women’s festival that I attended for the first time in 2016. It’s never the same the second, third or umpteenth time around is it? First of all, there’s that ‘first time newness’ that we can only get once. “Wow! Look at that!” “Goodness, that’s amazing!” And so on … because we are seeing things through fresh, first-time eyes.

In our subsequent visits, while we look for that same magic, but logically know it will be different than our beloved ‘first-time’. We then start to notice what’s not there that we liked the previous year(s), and lament “But I really liked that!”

So this year, I decided to focus instead on what was new, different and intriguing. And that’s how I came across The Release Tree.