Were you told by your parents, or grandparents \”Hey kido, Get a job, work hard. Money doesn\’t grow on trees?\” We are programmed from day 1. We are fed information and all this information sets at some point turn into our beliefs. A while back I wrote an article on \”Hard Work VS Effort\”. I […]
Tomorrow I am due to speak at the Virtual Speakers Association on how to use and apply Startup & Entrepreneurial toolsets for public speaking. It doesn\’t matter if you are presenting a new product, the annual report at work, selling something to customers, or pitching your startup to investors. When you are speaking or on
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Too often we are asked to do something, are presented with a challenge, or given a new task, and we simply push them away. They say, practice saying NO. I say, practice saying YES. Of course, you have to find a balance between the YES and NOs. 10 years ago as I was taking on
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I am sure that you have probably faced this situation once or twice, if not more, in your life. You are all enthusiastic, fired up with energy, you have this grand idea that is going to change the world or make you billions, and bang, when you share it with the one person whom you
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What is your relationship with money? Are you a spender or a saver? How do you value money and where do you get those values from? They say that you get most of these from your childhood and mostly from your parents. I don\’t know about you, but my parents always told me to make
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Some of the best ideas come from applying learnt skills and tools from one discipline to another. In my case, I have been in software development (programming) & startups for most of my life. In the course of my working life, I have had to use numerous tools for productivity and achieving my objectives. Some
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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Last night I was honoured to be asked by the Eloquent Leaders Toastmasters Club to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Jessica Breitenfeld (2022 champion of public speaking in the Iberian peninsula) I was asked to speak about #Leadership and my first reaction was, I
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Before I get to the point, I thought I should add something in simple acknowledgment. As you know my morning routine is waking up around 5:00 am with a bit of exercise followed by reading. Yet as I read a chapter from a very interesting book and many new ideas came to my mind, that
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Do you struggle to get out of bed in the morning? Well, it depends on if you are a night owl or a morning bird. It doesn\’t really matter which one you are and what time you wake up for work. What matters is how you wake up and how you feel when you wake
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Two months ago, I was elected as the president of my Toastmasters club for a second time. The Achievers Marbella Toastmasters Club. Once a thriving club with almost 50 members, we had found ourselves struggling with rebuilding the membership after Covid. Like many other clubs, it had been a challenge. Many elder members now had
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