Coffee keeps us alive, culture makes or breaks a business and curved balls are guaranteed
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Company Culture: Beyond the Candy Floss Illusion
Candy floss looks magical… until you realise it’s just colourful air. Some company cultures are exactly the same. If your company culture tastes sweet at first but leaves you dizzy, sticky, and slightly nauseous… congratulations, you’ve joined the Candy Floss Club. There’s something magical about candy floss at a funfair.…
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Choose Connection Over Comparison for Lasting Relationships
The beautiful thing about showing up this way is that the wheel always turns. People remember who made them feel valued rather than assessed. They gravitate toward those who treat them with dignity regardless of their title or circumstances. They return to the ones who were kind even when no…
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Transform Conversations: The Power of Transactional Analysis
The beauty of Transactional Analysis, or TA, is that it offers a way to understand why people speak the way they do and how you can shift the tone of any interaction from power struggle or sulking to calm, constructive, adult-level problem-solving. It gives you a way to manage conversations…
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How Your Brain Filters Reality: Understanding the RAS
Our minds are busy little cities — traffic rushing, thoughts honking, emotions weaving in and out like they’ve had too much caffeine. Somewhere between the noise, the to-do lists, and that second cup you promised yourself you wouldn’t drink, sits a tiny system quietly deciding what gets your attention, what…
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Why Listening Beats Selling: Unlocking Client Needs
There’s a universal truth in sales that almost nobody tells you upfront: the more you try to sell to someone, the less they want to buy. It sounds ridiculous, I know. We spend so much time learning how to talk about what we offer, how to present it, how to…
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The Legacy of Love: What Truly Matters in Life
Once someone is gone, the chance to fix things is gone with them. You can apologise into the air, talk to their photo, or write letters you’ll never send, but nothing replaces the moment you didn’t take — the call you didn’t make, the conversation you kept delaying, the bridge…
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Stop Wishing, Start Working: Unlocking Potential
There’s a quote I first heard from my son when he was only thirteen, standing proudly at a school swimming gala as captain — a child-sized leader with more courage than biceps. He cleared his throat, looked out at a crowd of teenagers who only cared about snacks, and delivered…
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Transform January Enthusiasm into Lasting Excellence
Every January comes with enthusiasm. Very few years come with follow-through. We confuse movement with progress and busyness with effort. We plan carefully, speak confidently, and promise ourselves that we’ll really commit this time. And then life happens. February arrives. The work gets uncomfortable. The easy tasks become tempting again.
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Mastering Real Estate: Keys to Lasting Success
If there’s one thing the property world has taught me, it’s that success—in the real estate sense of the word—has very little to do with glossy brochures, shiny shoes, or how convincingly you can pronounce “exclusive mandate.” Those are nice-to-haves. Accessories. Decorative scatter cushions on the couch of competence. The…
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Embracing Changes: A Journey of Transformation
Life will continue to ask us to step into new roles. Each time, we will lose something—and gain something else. The challenge is not to cling to who we were, nor to disappear into who we are becoming, but to honour the full arc of ourselves.
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