As a small business start-up coach and consultant, one of my favorite things to do is help my clients write vision statements for their businesses. However, this isn’t always easy for them to do. Why? Because they, like many people, think vision statements and mission statements are one and the same. They haven’t really stopped [...]

With some clarity on what you want to achieve and some understanding about who you need to become, you now look to the obstacles standing in your way to the BIG innovation. Although many small hurdles cross your path to innovation, the really big obstacles reside within the innovator. They include the ego, the motivation, [...]

Everyone wants to be a success. As I see it, being able to succeed on your own terms is one of the big brass rings of life. Yet while many people sweat and toil on their quest to succeed, get ahead, have it all, and find happiness, they aren’t clear about what they are seeking. [...]

Modern schooling at the average educational institution suffers from one general impediment: the motivation to learn is often not clear to the learner, the child. Great drama ensues if a child needs to do homework it doesn’t understand the reason for. And the reason is rather far-fetched when it comes to a child’s horizon: it’s [...]

Perhaps the most famous experiments in motivation took place at the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne plant in Chicago. Between 1924 and 1932, five sets of tests were carried out in an attempt to understand what made workers assembling telephone equipment more productive. To begin with the experiments concentrated on improvements to lighting. Productivity indeed improved, [...]

Your income is directly tied to your environment. Take a pause. Look around you right now. Also, quickly jot down the 5 people you spend the most time with. The space you create for yourself is the mirror to your income and business potential. One of my Soul Business Sisters, Tamra, says that she loves [...]

There are times when getting up to work or doing anything sensible seems to be the least attractive thing to do. Everyone wants to slow down sometimes and this also happen with regards to scheduled workouts. Low motivation levels generally get in the way towards one’s goal of having a well and healthy body. People [...]

All my clients meditate – some more than others – but all of them, at least some of the time. What kind of people are they – these meditators? Mainly business people – a lot of CEOs, Directors, General Managers – but a lot of ordinary, everyday people too – people just like you and [...]