Have you asked any of these questions before?
What do you do for a living? When are you going to get married? How is married life? When are you going to have children? When are you going to have another child? To simplify our world we seem to stereotype what people should be doing next in their life journey by our definition and sometimes I think these sorts of questions offend people. Please let me give you a few examples of scenarios where these questions offend. What do you do for a living? or What work to you do? I was once asked this question when I was first meeting some of my now husbands family and I found it very confrontational...
Read MoreWorking from home isn’t for everyone – Tips on working from home
I have worked from home for almost 5 years and absolutely love it, but it isn’t for everyone. Balance is very important when working from home – you need to set your office hours and stick to them, otherwise your work will end up taking over your family life and defeating the whole purpose of working from home. I know people who have ended up going back into an office set up, simply because it gave them a better work life balance, so it isn’t for everyone. When you leave your home office, you need to knock off and try to stop thinking about work. It is important to make sure...
Read MoreThe importance of listening
I talk a lot – always have done and probably always will. Even if I try and minimise how much I talk, people will still comment on how much I talk…. Until about 10 years ago I thought communicating was about me talking and other people listening. I thought my opinion was the only opinion that mattered and that there is only one way of doing things and that is my way. Otherwise it was wrong. Well then I got married and realised I had some growing up to do. I have found that communicating is about connecting with someone and listening to what is being said. I used to try and figure...
Read MoreThe importance of a mentor
I have the unique privilege of having several very special people in my life who are my mentors. Each of my mentors have different backgrounds and expertise so they are able to provide me with diverse insight. These people are invaluable in my life and I would encourage everyone to find at least one mentor. I have four business minded mentors and a spiritual mentor. Yes I am completely spoiled, but all of these relationships have various degrees of formality. One mentor I meet with about every six weeks, another every couple of months and the other two mentors are there when I have questions...
Read MoreThe effectiveness of Samples – change in your life
I recently attended an expo where I was given a very generous bag of goodies that were very appropriate to me in my journey. The goodies bag wasn’t just full of paper, it actually had things in it that I could use. This was a few weeks ago and I have used nearly all of my samples. I was grocery shopping the other night and it was time for me to buy my one of the items I had used from the sample pack. I stood at the grocery shop and price compared my normal brand to the sample brand and I decided to purchase the sample product. Why did I do this – well the sample product better met...
Read MoreWhy don’t people respond to emails
Everyday my inbox is bombarded with emails and if I am honest I probably bombard people with emails from me too. I am an email person and it is great because I can appear professional even though my beautiful toddler might be singing Twinkle Twinkle little star in the background. The sound doesn’t come through on the email, thank goodness, even though I do love her singing. When you read your emails, which ones do you read first? It is the personalized ones from friends that I tend to open first. It is the same when we open our mail; we save the bills until the end and open the...
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