tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81968155226997441652011-08-12T06:29:59.157+09:30When you 'lose' yourself in an interest you love, you 'find' yourself. Passion unlocks potential - at work, home and play. Visit my website at www.workleisure.comworkleisurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222929780082978773noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196815522699744165.post-69271392161748944352011-04-18T22:41:00.000+09:302011-04-18T22:41:30.407+09:30

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I am absolutely thrilled to announce I have established a totally new website - still at www.workleisure.com but with a whole new image, layout and passion. It includes a blog so this one will be closing down.So it's not goodbye but HELLO from a totally new location. Come and join me at http://www.workleisure.com/enjoy-being-you-blog.html

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Perhaps you can sense that something is missing in your life, that you are experiencing a sense of unease about the direction your life is taking you. It could be you need to* cope better with prolonged excessive stress, at work or in your personal life* harmonize your work/life with an energizing mix of enjoyable interests at work, home and play* ease a fear of your impending need to start

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"People Management Investment" instead of human resource management; "emotional energy management" instead of work life balance; "expanding life potential" instead of staff development program. Whether or not any of those terms do it for you as a leader and/or manager, if you really want to attract, retain and develop the best people for your line of business, you cannot help but agree its time

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My Lifestyle Review workshop participants were doing some writing exercises last Thursday. There was almost deathly silence as each person pondered on what the exercises meant for their own lives. Eventually one person sat back, staring into space. I asked if he had finished. Quickly he demurred, “no, just deep in thought”.I had fallen into the trap of treating silence as a vacuum to be abhorred

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An apple tree is the only plant that can grow apples. That alone doesn’t make it special. What makes it special is when it does what it was uniquely created to do - grow apples. As a human being, you are unique in so many ways. But to be special you need to be doing what you are uniquely created to do. What are you uniquely created to do? You were born with unique potential. Your resources are

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I have been asked a number of times over the years, "Do you have a big hairy audacious goal(BHAG), a goal so big that others might think it is totally outrageous?Having professionally observed human behaviour in leisure for almost 40 years, my BHAG has long been: As many people in the world as possible to realize and apply the fact that leisure is as important as work in maximizing one's personal

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I am delighted to report that readership of my online articles on the Best Management Articles site alone has this week passed 20 000 visits and the number continues to grow daily. Seven of the articles have each so far attracted in excess of 1000 readers. The most read article - "Why Work Life Harmony is Better Than Work Life Balance" is in the list of Most Read Articles of All Time on that site

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"I am not a hero.I am simply an ordinary person who had a dream and with hard work I achieved it". Nelson Mandella? Gandhi? No...16 year-old Jessica Watson of Australia, who today arrived safely in Sydney having become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo by yacht.What an inspiration to us all...including this 70 year old guy (me). Jessica has given me renewed inspiration

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You invest your money carefully to maximize your financial wealth. Are you investing just as carefully in your natural talents to maximize your potential? Spend a little time this week enjoying a freely-chosen interest you love doing just for the hell of it. You may be surprised at the extent to which you develop your natural talents - known, unknown, latent, or forgotten - for work, home and

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Follow a passion and unlearn your limits

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A park is an outside area providing inner peace.

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The seemingly infinite growth of Information technology is creating a need for entrepreneurs to go beyond being infopreneurs (providers of information) and become what I call insightpreneurs (providers of insight).In trying to define insight, I was reminded of a time I saw a person being taught to karate-chop a piece of timber bare-handed. The secret was in focusing her mind on an impact

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Do you see your life so far like a glass half full or a glass half empty? I prefer to see it as half empty. Why? Because so far I have been enjoying life to the full and I intend to ensure it is filled to overflowing by the time I "drop off the perch".

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Google Alert on my computer gives me a weekly report on anything written online to do with retirement planning. I kid you not that everything I see on retirement planning is about the money. That's of course very important, or there wouldn't be so many articles written about it. But I seem to be the only person on the planet who takes a professional interest and provides professional help about

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I’m presently reading “Anywhere” a book probing the fact that soon anybody and anything,anywhere in the world, can be connected through a variety of wire-less media. The potential is beyond our comprehension. It’s exciting, challenging, and not a little scary, just thinking about it. We all crave connection with others. While we may be an island unto ourselves, that island can be a very

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The only person who can manage your emotional and mental energy is you.Only you can manage your stress (most stress is self-imposed anyway).Only you can manage your resilience.Only you can manage your mix of work and personal life energies.Others may influence your thinking but you are totally in charge of how you respond.These core principles underly my forthcoming Lifestyle Review workshop,

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The date of my workshop (see three items earlier than this one) in Sydney has been put back one day to Thursday 4 March. For people in Sydney this is a wonderful opportunity to do what some of my clients call a "lifestyle reality check". In other words it's a great opportunity to simply drop out for half a day and enjoy doing a self-check lifestyle audit under enjoyably relaxing structured

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We all look forward to doing nothing over the coming holidays. Lazing around and taking it easy will soon be all the go. It’s the time of year when we respect, value and enjoy doing nothing, to refresh and refuel our mental energy.Why then does ‘doing nothing’ get such bad press for the rest of the year? – “time-wasting, irresponsible, slacking off, non-achieving and counter-productive”? If a

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I recently came across this article. If it interests you, go to my website page at http://www.workleisure.com/corporate/stressManagement.html to consider my approach to helping companies resolve this sort of issue.Staying@Work ReportThe 2009/2010 Staying@Work report found that despite the recession, while many companies have not slashed employee health and productivity programs, they have not

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For many of us, our stress stems from having made work and life choices that now don’t suit our constantly changing lives. You might see a sign along your life's road saying: Wrong Way! Go Forward You can't go back on past life choices. You can only stay where you are, or go forward and find a different focus, one that allows the real you to follow your passions. How

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Enjoyment is no laughing matter!I've been fighting the cause of leisure and enjoyment for over 30 years. We love to laugh and have fun but society sees it as a luxury that we don't have time to enjoy. The work ethic has a lot to answer for. Not because it dignifies work but because it puts leisure down. Four centuries ago, the 'protestant work ethic' decreed that idle hands were the work of the

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I had a ball yesterday (Saturday 31 October 2009). I did a one hour presentation to the Horticultural Therapy Symposium here in Adelaide on the topic of "Linking Leisure and Wellbeing". It was one of the most satisfying speaking sessions I have done. The audience was so responsive that I soon threw away my notes and 'winged it'. Lots of enthusiastic thank you's afterwards and a goodly number of

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It's probably trite to suggest that stress today is an outcome of the inability to withstand sustained excessive pressure and an accelerating rate of change. The ability to bounce back - after a day, a week, or longer diminishes. The focus on overcoming stress is being put into trying to eliminate the causes of stress - a pretty much impossible task. You no sooner get rid of one problem than

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As of today three of my articles at www.bestmanagementarticles.com have passed the 1000 readers mark. The latest is "How to Manage Long-Term Workplace Stress". My most read article, How to Enjoy Work Life Harmony Rather than Work Life Balance, has so far attracted over 1221 readers and is close to reaching that site's list of Most Read Ever articles!. "How to Stop Losing Your Best People" has

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I read the following comments by Susan Heron of AIM in the Weekend Australian of 22/23 August(Weekend Professional section) Companies need to regard non-salary benefits such as good workplace culture, flexible work arrangements and health/wellbeing programs as competitive weapons in the battle to attract and retain the people their business needs to prosperThe downturn is having an

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I wrote another article the other day, "How to Keep a Healthy Bottom Line" and had it published on the Best Management Articles website. Overnight (literally) it got on to the Most Read Articles for the month of August. Last time I looked the number of readers was continuing to steadily grow. Go to http://www.bestmanagementarticles.com/MostRead.aspx to find it on the list. Check the "month of

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Today I had a therapeutic massage. It did more than make me feel relaxed. The word that came into my mind was "liberated". To me that means much more than just feeling free, lucky though I am to enjoy feeling free. It brings in elements of allowing my creative self to fly, opening doors to greater self belief, self confidence and self-assurance. I am proud to be the person I am and I believe in

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My efforts to promote the benefits of leisure to sustained high quality work productivity, including stress management, have to be fought against the generations-old work ethic. I don't have any problem with the importance of work - it takes up a fair bit of my own life too.Where I do have a problem is the age-old belief that leisure is a waste of time - particularly 'good working time'. Ok

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This a "blow my own trumpet" blog, borne out of my frustration about the inability of organisations to even accept they have a responsibility for minimizing the risk of staff stress claims, let alone take any stress risk management action.Graham Yemm, a UK consultant, has come up with some alarming stats which are in line with other stats I have seen over the last couple of years regarding stress

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Because I have 30 years planning experience in the field of parks and recreation, I have come to see the links between the growth of nature and the growth of people. Why not! After all we are part of nature (not separate to or above nature). We start from a seed that contains everything the mature plant requires, provided it is planted in fertile soil and nurtured with water and nutritious food

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We are told that most pressure is self-imposed. I have moved from Adelaide (less than 1 m) to Sydney (more than 5m) and saw this as the opportunity to expand my business. What I forgot was that I am still only a one person business and that Sydney was going to require a whole new marketing exercise. I increased the pressure on myself. My natural passion palled. I got down on myself. In short, I

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Like most positive thinking people, I am getting tired of constantly hearing and reading about the gloom and doom that is feeding the current global economic downturn. It's like a virus that preys on the minds of fearful people - people fearing the loss of their money, job, security, quality of life and so on. Dont get me wrong, there are plenty of real problems out there. It's just that this

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One of the great things about providing a lifestyle management service is that I can give myself free advice and assistance at any time with my own life. I am taking advantage of this offer right now as Carol and I go through what many people regard as one of the most stressful lifestyle change experiences of all - moving interstate, especially from a city of under 1 million to one of over 5

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You are privy to getting some inside information on a different slant I am taking with my lifestyle mentoring business: Work Leisure International - go to http://www.workleisure.com. My theme of growth and maximizing potential through enjoying being your authentic self is perhaps better understood when considered in terms of the way we achieve positive human behaviour - at work, at home, or at

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Which do you value most?: Your money or your life? This was what highway robbers used to demand. I mean the ones that used to ride horses in the olden days. TV and newspaper coverage of the world financial crisis at present would lead you to believe most people are opting for the money. Terrorism, climate change, droughts and warfare are being pushed aside in the rush to beg for mercy at the

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It’s time to take the next step in developing Work Leisure International. Carol and I are re-locating to Sydney as from mid January 2009. The move not only gives us the opportunity to test the Sydney market but also to further develop our national and international operations. Our services to Adelaide clients will continue. True to my professional and personal beliefs, the move is a joint

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The Free Things in Life are Best Employers of choice know one of the big secrets to winning and keeping staff loyalty is to give them free rewards. These rewards come in the form of dignity, respect, recognition, social acceptance, self esteem, trust and attention. Research is showing that the simple “thank you for a job well done” is being seen to offer a greater return on staff

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I'm told my Retirement Lifestyle Planning services have gone down the drain because of the current world financial crisis. People can't afford it, they say.Rubbish! People had already stopped retiring.Historically, retirement had a pretty short life. It was a product of the industrial revolution, a means of telling people they were too old to work anymore, that they should get out of the way and

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Given my business is about the benefits of enjoyment, people wonder if I'm one of those sickly people who is always telling everyone how happy he is. The answer I always give is that the only way to really appreciate the highs of life is to also experience the lows. People close to me in my life get to hear about those times of course. But you don't want to hear about my problems - I am sure you

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When I started my present business back in 2003, I was told a big goal took no more thinking effort than a small goal. I decided to think internationally in achieving my goal of making people in business and in personal life more aware of the powerful benefits of the right leisure interests for work and personal life success. So I started by calling my business Work Leisure International.In the

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Australia's National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission has called for submissions on the future of the Australian Health System. I have put in a submission entitled "Enjoying Good Health". I have focused on (quoting from my submission) " the mutually-beneficial links between good health, enjoyment and the 'ripple effect' of enjoyable experiences, positively affecting everything that

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Life changes fast – so fast we can’t keep pace. We haven’t any choice but to move with the times because we know if we don’t we’re sunk. And when we decide to make the most of it we often find it can be fun. For some reason it all stops when people become a boss in business. It seems business is expected to change with the times in product development and sales but not in how it manages

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Gee I loved being a kid. Living for the moment, laughing for the sheer joy of doing so, letting my imagination run wild, not trying to be someone I wasn't, saying "yes I can do that" to everything I wanted to try, even if I wasn't any good at it. I didn't have to worry about getting a job, a relationship, or pay off a mortgage. Nor did I realize that, while I was playing, I was also learning all

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One of the many unanticipated consequences of globalisation is that increasing numbers of people are working to a global schedule It means that people are working in different time zones and geographies, almost as a matter of course. (Weekend Australian Feb 16-17 2008).This is a dramatic example of how life is now a 24/7 continuum with no clear distinction between work and personal life. Many

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You know that lovely feeling when you are so lost in an activity that time and space seem to stand still? I have been listening to a tape by a man with an unpronouncable name - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyl - on the subject of Flow. His explanation shows a clear connection between the feeling of enjoyment and the feeling of a state of flow. His views and mine have so much in common that I would love

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Having two hours of quality quiet chat time - face to face - with my 35 year old son during our recent holiday in Perth. He lives four hours flying time away so we only see each other a couple of times a year. We discussed all those things that add so much to father and son bonding. It was lovely spending time with his family (wife Cathy and two beautiful grandchildren) but there is something

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A working holiday is something of an oxymoron - particularly when said by a lifestyle consultant! Yeah I feel a bit guilty in admitting that I accepted a request to conduct a lifestyle management workshop for a CEO and his senior management team while I was on holidays in Perth. Well done! you might say - earning money to pay for the holiday or being able to put some of the holiday costs down as

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People want success. The public perception of success tends to be very narrow - financial success, winning, doing better than the opposition, having lots of material things. They are all focused on how we can look successful in the eyes of other people. But success is very personal and relates first and foremost to how we each see our own personal progress in life. This is the sort of success

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Enjoy Being You: What is it that attracts and keeps good people where you work?

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People with high skills are getting hard to find - and keep - in business. They know it and they are cruising the market, looking for employers of choice. They don't have to be the best organization, or even pay the most. They do however need to have a management culture that earns and sustains the respect, support and energy of its people, 24/7. Most people resign from the people they were being

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We used to think of "the change of life" as being menopausal, usually something experienced by women but also increasingly - in a different way - by men. These days we hear more about such things as sea-change, tree-change, down-shifting, or reaching "the big 0" - 40, 50 or 60.It's just another of the many areas of thinking affected by the dramatic changes, pressures and stresses of 21st century

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Stories have surfaced this week (commencing 22 July 2007) of two celebrities who highly value work life balance. Hollywood film director Scott Hicks will be known to many of my international readers. The other is Steve Bracks, who, until this week, has been the Premier (Chief Minister) of the State of Victoria here in Australia. Scott works in Los Angeles of course but lives 16 hours flying

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I had to laugh today (in good spirit, I hasten to add) when I got an email from a woman (Life Coach) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, who had bought a copy of my Busy Women's E-Guide to Enjoying Quality Personal Time (go to www.workleisure.com and click on the thumbnail). She used the Guide in a recent workshop and was thrilled with the content and the response of her group. Part of the review she sent

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I went to a seminar today on values in the workplace - personal and corporate. I found myself spending more time observing people than listening to the speaker (who, by the way, was very good and clearly knew his stuff). But it's ages since I have been to what I would call a training seminar - where the trainer speaks to a powerpoint presentation of headings and dot points and everyone tries to

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Work is such a central part of life today that people seem to take it for granted - until they are no longer able to work for whatever reason. Why do you work (apart from earning money)?The office camaraderie?Recognition of what you do well?Making a contribution to the community?People have lots of reasons. What are yours?

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I can get people who are visiting my website at www.workleisure.com to link here to my blog. But I haven't yet figured out how to put a link into here that you can click on to go to my website at www.workleisure.com. Can anyone tell me what to do? Thanks in anticipation Peter Nicholls

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Generally, business seems to accept in principle the need for, and benefits of, work life balance but there is plenty of doubt about the extent to which its being practiced. When I say work life balance, I mean much more than "family-friendly" policies. I'm talking about everybody - male and female, from the CEO to the junior assistant - having mutually-energising lives that allow us to cope

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Yesterday I had a 'ball', facilitating my latest "Integrated Life Plan" workshop. It's a fantastic feeling to run a workshop that focuses on enjoyment as a life-changing experience. Lots of laughter of course, but more rewarding was seeing the light come into participants' eyes as they luxuriated in the opportunity to stop, be themselves and reflect on some wonderful experiences in which they

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"What better way to express yourself, develop your abilities and find your purpose in life than through doing something purely for the joy it gives you" - from my book "Enjoy Being You".It has been my passionate belief for over 30 years that the path to personal fulfillment is to enjoy being the person that is uniquely me. The real me has been so since the womb. The person you see may now look

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