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How Do You Do Money?

October 18, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

As a business owner, I really needed to deal with my own baggage and attitudes around money. Working with Natalie Green really helped me to understand my money attitudes and their limitations to my business and my life. Natalie has generously agreed to share with the Business of 1 Community some of the keys you need to address your own money baggage. Let me know what comes up for you; has this article opened your eyes to your own attitudes regarding money? Jo After working with women from … [Read more...]

Why would I need a mentor? Part 2

July 12, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

A big thank you for the response I have received through personal messages following my last article. I really appreciate your ideas, thoughts and interaction. I was not surprised by the number of people who expressed that they are confused by the word mentor, and a shift that may be occurring in the perception and marketing of mentoring. In this article I want to explore want mentoring is further. Let’s cut through what we think we know, and look at some definitions. Now these definitions … [Read more...]

Why would I need a mentor? Part 1

June 21, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

Hi! Thanks for taking the time to stop by and read this article. This is a great question which was yet again posed to me recently; Why would I need a mentor? As you may be aware I have been providing formal mentoring services since 2009. And through that time, I’ve had many people, including allied health professionals, ask me to explain what a mentor is, and how to effectively work with a mentor. As allied health professionals, we are more familiar with supervision, especially clinical … [Read more...]

Why I love being self employed…..

June 14, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

Why I love being self employed……….. My decision to become a self employed Consultant arose from compelling desires in me to choose the type of work I wanted to do with greater flexibility and financial reward while at the same time making a big difference to the people I serve. To me, these desires can be summed up in one word – FREEDOM! I love consulting and I love mentoring. I love my consulting business and I love my mentoring business because they give me freedom. AND I LOVE being … [Read more...]

Stress And The Effects On The Mind

March 25, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

In my career, I have had plenty of opportunities to think about and react to what I consider to be stress. The concept of stress is an interesting one, especially for those of us who work in a compensable environment where the word was removed and replaced by “psychological injury”. We all know that a certain amount of stress in our daily lives is perfectly normal and somewhat necessary to ensure we perform optimally at work, especially when we are faced with the decision making process. But … [Read more...]

3 things you can do RIGHT now to boost your personal efficiency

January 9, 2012 by Admin Leave a Comment

Are you sick and tired of thinking, I must become more efficient in what I do? Do you constantly lament – there isn’t enough time……. Is the way you manage your personal efficiency serving you to get the most out of your work-life? http://youtu.be/fh-tWFmZNO0 How we manage our efficiency, is how we behave effectively. There is a whole range of thoughts and attitudes tied up in how we approach our work. The purpose of this brief power-shot is not to unveil those unhelpful thoughts and … [Read more...]

Virtual Assistant Role Flourishing In A Changing Workplace

December 11, 2011 by Admin Leave a Comment

Recent labour market research conducted by Purple Co in several Australian capitol cities has shown that Virtual Assistants (VA's) are flourishing not just in India or Philippines but all over Australia as well. As an example, you may be interested to know that there are 306 VA's listed on LinkedIn in the Melbourne area alone. We have found that the roles of Receptionist, Secretary, Personal Assistant and even Executive Assistant are being cut back in many companies. On the Australian … [Read more...]

How to Get Stuff Done

December 9, 2011 by Admin Leave a Comment

Creating Successful Behaviours and Habits Are your habits (the things you repeatedly do) serving you or holding you back? In order to reach our goals in business, and in life, we must become the person it takes to do the things we need to do in order to reach our goals. To ‘check-in’ as to whether or not we are conspiring for our own success ask yourself these questions 1. What things are you doing, that you should do LESS of? a. . b. . c. . 2. What things are you doing, … [Read more...]

Bookeeping role: great lifestyle opportunity

September 21, 2011 by Admin Leave a Comment

We are really quite honored to be able to pass on this job opportunity for someone looking for a part time bookkeeping role in the lower Blue Mountains. A fantastic opportunity to live a work life balance . Details of the position are: Book-keeper required for busy accounting office to fulfil the book-keeping role of the accounting office itself as well as performing book-keeping functions for clients. This is a part-time position but may in time become a full-time position for the right … [Read more...]

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