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Do different to see different
If you want to find different things then look in different places. So many people I meet in my business coaching Brisbane consultancy are looking for that one good idea that will be their financial success and professional triumph. Well the harsh reality is that you are never going to find it while you look at the same old view through the same old eyes. You have got to do something different before you can see something different. So here are five (5) ideas to start with:
- Stop watching the evening news. It is the same each day; all bad news apart from the standard kitten rescue story; more crime, more scams, more accidents; more people killed and injured; politicians still scrapping; share market going up or down; and the value of the dollar still fluctuating
- Think about what you would do if it was your job to research and present the nation’s good news. For a start, you would have to turn off your police CB radio and stop following ambulances. Secondly, you could look past today and lengthen your time frame from a day to a month. Thirdly, you could appoint yourself as the researcher and editor of “Monthly Good News and Innovation”. There is plenty of good news and positive stories out there.
- Quit short term thinking. Nothing worthwhile is ever going to happen in a day. It is the daily routines that inhibit lateral living
- You must get out of the house or the office; that’s where the rest of the world is. It is also where all of the opportunity is. Join a club, go walking, play a sport; do something different (and enjoyable) to kick start your emergence from the rut
- Start seeing the world through different eyes. Do some travel, learn new skills and meet new people outside of your normal group, and even outside your home town, state or country
Live laterally! Expand your life sideways
Gary Weigh business coaching Brisbane
Luck does not fall in your lap. You must find ways to find it. Or maybe it was sitting on your lap all along. In that case you need to learn how to see it.
Here’s how to do it. This is the guide. the detail of what, how and who is entirely up to you. It depends on what you are looking for.
- Develop a calm positive mind
- Look out further than a day
- Gain new knowledge
- Intersect new people
- Be prepared for what you find
These are the 5 keys to finding opportunity and what many would call luck. It is true that the more get out of your rut; the more persistent you are; the more you expand your horizons, the luckier you will get. You never know; you may find something a whole lot better that you never set out to look for.
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This bullying story is hard to top
Gary Weigh & Associates – business coaching Brisbane
Gary Weigh
When I first read bullying story, I was gobsmacked. This is hard to top!
“This is about a sociopathic office bully called Colin. Affectionately known as ‘Col’ by his legion of enemies, Colin was a senior manager in a prominent service company who could be best described as a boorish and obnoxious pig. When introduced to a new employee, he would simply look up from his desk and tell the new incumbent to “get f***ked”. Nothing more! Colin thought accessing private information and calling an employee’s home phone at 2.30am to ask the whereabouts of a file was hilariously funny. He would then proceed to harass and bully the sleepless employee next day.
Fat and balding, and obviously with a house full of concave mirrors, Colin also fancied himself as a lady’s man. To make him look tougher and more rugged, he rode a Harley Davidson bike. To complete the delusional self image, he strongly hinted at being a Vietnam veteran even though he is too young by a decade. But undeterred, he would phone a male employee’s home at what he thought was bedtime for the express purpose of chatting socially with the employee’s wife. Does he remind you of the loser would-be spy from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ‘True Lies’?”
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Another workplace bully story
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Talk about closing the door on a bully boss. After putting up with her boss’s harassment and manipulation for too long, a fed up worker evened up the score card. The bully boss had swung his body around the corner from her office into the doorway of the office next door. Unfortunately, he was still gripping the door jamb of the office he had just exited. It was never established whether Ms. Fedup saw the bully boss’s fingers in the door jamb or not, but she simply walked over and closed her office door – hard. Oh my … what a terrible accident! He couldn’t flip the left hand bird for quite a while.
What’s your bully?
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One of the reasons that people can’t make New Year resolutions and achieve personal goals is that they can’t extricate themselves from difficult situations they are already in. It is hard to move on when you are trapped. In this case I am talking about being trapped at work by a bully. So this year, I am going to use this blog to shine a light on workplace bullies. Together we are going to identify, shame, and prosecute a few.
Workplace bullies come in all shapes and sizes; commonly male but not always. I have seen quite a few and it seems to me that they all have one thing in common. That is, fear. It is an inbuilt ‘fear of lack’ developed over a long period of time. It comes from feeling insecure about some personal attribute – e.g. wealth, status, intelligence, competence, looks, height, popularity, libido. It probably goes deeper than that but I’m not a psychologist.
Probing and knowing the cause doesn’t excuse the misery bullies cause but it does suggest how fragile they would be if we could strip away their props – e.g. the power, authority, and status symbols, not to mention eradicating that traditional festering environment called the average workplace.
It is my view that most workplace environments enable and empower bullies. They are simply built for it. The same structure that supposedly elicits the best work results is the one that causes most misery to its people. It simply allows relationships that don’t exist elsewhere. The age-old hierarchical structure and the master-servant relationships of the workplace are tailor made for the underachiever looking to slip the collar of self control and respect for others.
Send me your bullying stories and let’s act.
Establishing a positive focus
When it comes to achieving your goals, your mindset needs to be a positive one, extending forward into abundance. It really helps to overcome inertia; and to generate positive action, movement and momentum.
You can’t afford to sit in a puddle with your mind dwelling on the negative, focusing on retreat, cutting back, making do, substituting secondhand, doing without and stretching every dollar as far as possible.
Repeating a silent plea for more money is not focused, positive thinking. It is merely wishing; born out of desperation. There is not one positive action that supports it, and people can smell desperation a mile away.
Own the solution, not the problem!! If you don’t, you will drive yourself nuts blaming others for your misfortune or lack of achievement; somehow justifying to yourself that you are a special case; convincing yourself that you are trapped in poverty and every door is closed to you.
If friends and colleagues also share your misery, find some new friends. Like attracts like and misery loves company. Your first step to freeing your mind is to talk to someone who sees the positive side of life.
If you would like to read more about Aikido in everyday life, check out my blog at http://aikido-secrets-to-calm-success.com
It is never too late!
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Following the powerful mind development principles of Aikido
Learning the art of Aikido was a sea change for me! When I learnt how to relax and maintain a calm mind under pressure, I discovered the ability to think very clearly.
For the most part, stress gradually became a thing of the past as I slowly worked out how not to put pressure on myself. Maintaining a calm mind under pressure is a much easier thing to do when you don’t feel pressure in the first place.
As a result, life became much more enjoyable. I worked through and solved some health problems and am still actively on the path of becoming healthier than I have been in a decade.
Even the process of making money changed. It is now a much more enjoyable activity because I go with my own flow and choose what I want to do and who I want to do it with.
Real wealth started to flow in my life when I learnt to relax my mind and stay calm. Aikido was 100% responsible for my change of mindset. By real wealth I mean wellness, happiness, family, good friends as well as money.
Real wealth is so much more of a well rounded concept than the mere pursuit of money. It’s hard to believe before you have experienced it but when everything else is aligned, money just happens.
If you want to follow the same path I did, then stop fighting against yourself. Be happy with who you are and quit resisting the perception of others being luckier and things not going your way. Find your peace and develop an ethic of calm positive action. If you do, you will find that the money flows.
In business terms, money is not the strategy itself it is the result of the strategy. When I feel relaxed and I am in a calm frame of mind, I find that money just flows. Worry and stress throws it into reverse and puts money further out of reach.
If you would like to learn more about the powerful principles of Aikido and apply them to your business, check out my blog at http://www.aikido-secrets-to-calm-success.com
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Call Gary on 0408 756 531 or send an email to gary@garyweigh.com
Your success saboteurs
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Following the powerful principles of Aikido
Opportunity is often waiting for you to get out of the way! Subconsciously, it is easy to get in the way and sabotage your own success by doing your best to keep everything the same. Your two friends ‘fear’ and ‘self doubt’ are the culprits, so you need to find ways to silence them.
Self sabotage presents itself as a sudden stop on an initiative you were enthusiastic about a week ago and making excuses for not continuing to act and follow through. The most common excuses for not following through on initiatives and new strategies are bushfires at work that need urgent attention or other more routine things need attention.
Once procrastination sets in, you are back on business flat-line. The opportunity slowly fades away; there is no new life and no growth. You attempted to break out, gave it a shot and nothing happened. How frustrating! Everything is exactly the same. Welcome to the world of self sabotage.
The way out of this inertia is to recognise your avoidance behaviour and kick-start some momentum. A very easy way to do this is to set your self up for small successes. This means setting incredibly simple and achievable goals, not going too far out of your comfort zone and taking very small steps forward.
Another sure fire remedy for fear and self doubt is to connect with positive people. These can be business friends, favourite clients or your mentor / business coach. Positive collaboration does wonders for the soul. Networking with other positive business people is an ideal strategy.
Nothing inspires further success like success itself. So keep your momentum going! When small successes are easily achieved, make the steps a little bigger. Keep making positive connections with other people.
Watch out for negative people who seek to slow you down or drag you back. After a while you will feel their negative energy as soon as they come near you. Avoid them at all costs.
If you would like to learn more about the powerful principles of Aikido and apply them to your business, check out my blog at http://www.aikido-secrets-to-calm-success.com
Business coaching Brisbane with a difference!
Call Gary on 0408 756 531 or send me an email to gary@garyweigh.com
Do you lack business understanding?
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If only business was as simple as buying at one price and selling at another to make a profit. It should be that, but most overcomplicate it due to lack of understanding. Nevertheless, it is this blissfully simplistic notion that will seduce you and many other new entrants in launching a business enterprise, blind to the reality of what lies ahead and riding high on the dream of wealth and riches.
It is easy not to pay sufficient attention to the customer and it is even easier to avoid some of the more mind-numbing administration issues such as finance, inventory, cash flow, leasing, employment, industrial issues, occupational health & safety, compliance, licensing conditions, taxation and superannuation. Such avoidance and neglect can quickly unravel a promising enterprise.
Few new entrants fully understand what operating a business really means and it is almost impossible to gain such an appreciation until you have stood by the cash register and lived on nothing else but the sales you make. A University degree will not provide a true perspective, only experience from time served in business can do that.
I guess that is why Winston Churchill said that “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm”.
For all your professional business coaching Brisbane needs call Gary on 0408 756 531