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Happiness at Work – Aral Subramaniam – Grow Your Business and Stay Happy

Arul Subramaniam is co-founder of Brainobrain, which is one of the world’s leading Children Institute for Self Empowerment. Established in India in 2003, Brainobrain operates in 12 countries, and has more than 600 successful franchisees. Brainobrain has transformed the lives of more than 60,000 children all over the world with its high-quality programmes. Brainobrain has [...]

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Happiness at Work – Jessica Pryce-Jones – Happiness and productivity

One of my top two speakers in this Happiness at Work and not only because she mentions lawyers!
Jessica Pryce-Jones, author of “Happiness at Work” and CEO of iOpener, is the world’s leading expert in raising productivity through the Science of Happiness at Work. She and iOpener work with organisations, teams and individuals to achieve a [...]

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Learning to Scuba Dive – it’s a mind thing

I’ve wanted to learn how to scuba dive for years now but never quite found the time. It turned out that all I needed to do was make a quick decision. I jogged past the dive centre on Wednesday night, signed up on Thursday, had my medical on Friday and was in the classroom by Saturday.
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Conservation trip results in unexpected treasure

I was lucky enough to go to D’Urville Island earlier this year to do a week of volunteering for the Department of Conservation. I really loved the experience and made some great new friends. Two of whom are now my pen pals! I received my first wonderful parcel from Maia (8) and Lena (6). Such talented [...]

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Finding Your Authentic Voice

This is a sneak preview for my loyal readers of an article that is soon to be published by Professionelle.

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.” ~ Carl Jung

When I was asked to write this article I was in the middle of dealing with all the conflicting emotions of a [...]

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Changing Career – Are You Waiting For Prince Charming To Save You?

I have been doing an internet marketing course over the last year while taking some time out from corporate law. I decided to take a break from the course as I wasn’t achieving the results I wanted and I thought that a break would give me a fresh approach when I started again. That decision [...]

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Who Moved My Cheese? A Great Story To Help You Deal With Change

The best laid schemes o’mice and men often go astray ~ Robert Burns
“Who Moved My Cheese?“, by Dr Spencer Johnson, is a book that I’ve been meaning to read for awhile and when I spotted it in the bookshelf of my current housesit I knew now was the time.
 The book only took an hour to read and, [...]

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Changing Career – Beware Of The Lazy Bloke On The Couch When You Work At Home

It turns out I’m not as disciplined as I thought; in fact I have a lazy person inside simply dying to take over. While I was working as a lawyer I was ultra organised (scarily so, I’ve been told), worked well to deadlines, for the most part worked well under pressure and could always be [...]

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How To Get Rid of “Stuff” and Live Out Of Your Car

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
 

For those who are regular readers you will know that I live a little differently these days. I essentially live with what will fit into the boot of my car and I am house sitting [...]

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What Wonderous Work Does A Willing Wwoofer Do?

Wwoofing?? Has my spell check given up for the day or is this some weird cult involving a lot of barking and scratching? Neither thank goodness!

 
So what exactly is Wwoofing? Well for starters it stands for World Wide Opportunties On Organic Farms; althought that is no longer the only work on offer. The description on the [...]

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