Stories we are told

While plenty of research explores the benefits of affirmations and mantras, how can we transition positive statements into thought-provoking action? Here’s a list of questions that I ask each day and why you should too.

While defiance may not cause extreme suffering today, why do we often want what we can’t have? Why is rebelling so appealing? What can we do to overcome this?

Self empowerment is the combination of thoughts, feelings and actions that create a person’s life blueprint. Principles, skills and goals also form part of this blueprint, held together with one’s mindset and level of personal awareness.

Communication is a basic human ability, however conveying concepts verbally and non verbally can become a challenging mind field due to people’s perceptions, conditioning and interpretation.

Experiences allow assessment of efficiency, performance and progress indicating whether anything that can be measured has been successful. Complementing my last post on warning signs in your career, how do you know if your efforts are moving in the right direction?

Push factors include the changing work environment and pull factors consist of uncovering your why and purpose. But how do you know you need to reinvent yourself? What are the calling signs for change?

Setting goals is a roadmap to change because it incapsulates the mindset and direction of where we want to be.

Purpose driven reinvention begins with 2 snapshots: a picture of where you are now and a snapshot of where you want to be.

Emotional intelligence (EQ) has been attributed as key to personal, organisational and leadership success.

Deciding to reinvent yourself takes courage, action and a healthy dose of gut, yet most people don’t do it.

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a cornerstone resource for the modern property investor and is synonymous with its author and financial businessman Robert Kiyosaki.

Toxic habits are challenging and can lead to toxic relationships with others. Diagnosing our habits; the way we think, speak or treat ourself is difficult to do. Blinded by a lack of self-awareness, toxic habits can sabotage our reinvention progress and jeopardise success.

Myths about personal reinvention stem from all corners; from what we’re told from people in our life, to the material we consume to our influences or beliefs (whether empowering or limiting).

Training comes in many shapes and forms; short courses, on the job application, or being thrown in the deep end. Applying myself different training recently, I found short courses useful in filling gaps within existing knowledge.

Turning demotivation into motivation can be an eye-rolling bombardment of “stay positive”, “keep at it” and “work harder” messages that are seldom useful. If like me, you’ve felt a serious case of the “ceebs” from time to time (or constantly, it’s OK to admit), you’re probably keen to find motivation and keep it.

Connect the dots of any value, belief or situation in your life and it will trace back to your past. Even the smallest incidents can have lasting impacts whether we know it or not.