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What an exciting few months it has been…launching, relaunching....long story, but here we are finally.  Setting goals, helping others begin their journey with us.

On a personal level, the year has also had a lot of excitement for me.  Enjoying the first year of my beautiful baby granddaughter, Maali who reached a couple of milestones in her short life.  She had her first birthday and started walking. 

Amazing how babies just keep getting up when they fall, they never think of giving up.

Today's success tip comes from Terry Hawkins.

Over the past 18 years, Terry has built a reputation for heading up one of the most innovative, dynamic and successful training companies in Australia. She is also one of the most in-demand female speakers in Australia and New Zealand.


 Why are the words we say to ourselves so powerful?

Whatever we say to ourselves, our unconscious mind believes. So when we say 'I can't do this' or 'I'm no good at something' our unconscious mind believes us. Most of us are completely unaware of the language that we use, therefore we create negative outcomes.

For example, statistics show that on average 75 per cent of the communication in a relationship is negative and only 25 per cent is positive. I think this is because we get into the habit of speaking in a negative manner. After a while we stop paying attention to what we say to those we love, and how we say it.

I think we become very conditioned to negative language and stop noticing the damage it causes. Years later we wonder why we don't love each other anymore. Test it for yourself. Ask someone how he or she is. Chances are they will reply with, 'Not bad', 'Getting there', 'I've been better' or something similar.


This website contains even more great tips from Terry Hawkins.

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My Dream Got an F?

Have you ever heard of the book series “Chicken Soup for the Soul”?

Who am I kidding of course you have! Produced by Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, to date over 100 million “Chicken Soup” books have been sold putting them in the Guinness Book of Records, for the most amount of books sold in a Non-Fiction series.

Now there is an amazing story behind the success of that glamorous empire that we marvel at today, but I will leave that for another day and another blog post.

Right now though I’d love to share with you one of my favourite stories which comes out of one of the “Chick Soup”.

I hope that you like it as much as I do, and remember to refer back to it when you need a little lift of inspiration. Here goes…

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A high school senior Monty was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to become when he grew up.

He wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal that someday he would own a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000 sq foot house that would sit on his 200-acre dream ranch.

He put a great deal of heart and soul into the paper and the next day he handed in his paper to his teacher. Two days later, Monty got his paper back. On the front page there was a large red F with a note that read ‘See me after class.’ Monty was shocked and went to see the teacher after class and asked ‘Why did I get an F?’

The teacher responded, ‘This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from a poor family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and large stud fees. There is no way you could ever do it. Please go back and rewrite your paper with more a realistic goal. I will re-consider your grade’.

Monty went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, ‘Look son, you have to make up your mind on this. I think it is a very important decision for you.’

After sitting with it for a week, Monty turned in the same paper and made no changes at all. He told his teacher, ‘You can keep the F and I will keep my dream’.

Monty still has that school paper now framed over his fireplace in his 4000 sq ft house in the middle of the 200-acre house ranch. A few years back, the same school teacher brought some kids to his ranch for a retreat. When the teacher was leaving, he said, ‘Monty, when I was your teacher, I was something of a dream-stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough guts not to give up yours.’

Don’t let everyone steal your dream. In your journey in finding your dream and achieving your goals, you will meet many people that will tell you it is not possible to achieve what you have set for yourself. Smile at them graciously and continue on. Find the right people to surround yourself with. You will soon become the next Monty.

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Are there any great stories that inspire you. Please send them to me.