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Live blog from the Money seminar
I’ve just started Landmark’s Money seminar called Money: From Concern to Freedom, and over the course of the seminar which lasts about three and a half months I’m going to be blogging about my...
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Word of the day at Business Writing Coach
There’s a new column on my business website you may enjoy too. It’s called Word of the day, and features “Samuel’s word” and “Narelle’s word”. Samuel’s words come from the famous dictionary of Dr...
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Message for Tom: Can now subscribe to Word of the day
Hi Tom, I’ve added a subscribe facility to “Word of the day” on the website, Business Writing Coach as you suggested the other day. It’s the low-fi, no-frills version so you get a plain, unvarnished...
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Selling workability, performance, satisfaction
I gave a presentation yesterday to a group of lawyers and one of the great things about it was that I declared for myself, and for them, what it is I see my business as creating. I didn’t exactly plan...
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Live blog from the Money seminar
The second session of the Landmark Money seminar takes place in a toppling pile of fear and shame. It’s everywhere. One hundred and fifty people, all trained graduates, some with 10+, 20+ years of...
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Dismantling the mystique of publication
Today I’m inspired by Kayti’s musings on blogging. A favourite blogger, Seth Godin, asked a question a while back that makes me wonder too. The gist of it was: Why is it that more people, especially...
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What are your credentials for being a leader?
How do you manage and provide leadership and guidance to your employee when you are not the subject matter expert? The employee is the subject matter expert. That’s what a client asked recently. She’s...
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Live blog from the Money seminar
The seminar leader puts the proposition, “Consider that you live inside a conversation that money solves problems.” Like many Landmark propositions it sounds too simple at first. Then it unfurls. I...
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Communicator of the Year
Following is a repost from my business site, Business Writing Coach. Did you hear Mr Timmermans speaking? How did it affect you? * Out of the horror and chaos of the shooting down of the Malaysia...
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Some thoughts on The Silent Treatment
Lorna I’ve always found silence a power thing. When I’m alone with it, it is a friend. When someone is using it against me, it is a weapon more damaging than anything anyone would have to register with...
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Next session in business writing on 23 August
Eager Melburnians! Here’s a sample of what you’ll get from our next public session in “Reader-centred business writing”: The top 12 business writing distinctions including The rule of seven, Write...
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Oasis
This is my new cookbook, Yallateef! (a middle eastern word for expressing delight) by Marwa Makool. Marwa is a member of the family that runs the “incomparable food empire” in Melbourne called the...
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Self as clearing
You could say it [transformation] is a shift in the basis of experience from self as point of view, or from self as direct experience, to self as self, or self as simply being. True transformation is...
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Underneath it
For Cait When you’ve said all of the bad things and all of the good things you haven’t been saying, you will find that what you’ve really been withholding is, “I love you.” ~ Werner Erhard * Image:...
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My brilliant career (in travel): Part 1
When I was 25, I went to New York. It was the late 80s and my first trip overseas. The ultimate destination was Canada on account of a lifeguard I’d fallen in love with some years earlier. He’d once...
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Note about trolling
Richard will not be commenting here any longer. He’s been acting on behalf of another person who was disgruntled about a comment I made three years ago and is apparently still disgruntled. *
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A trip to Queensland
I’ve been away on a week’s holiday to Queensland, Australia’s most northern state. Queensland is also a state of mind, a place that’s very different to the southern states where I live. It’s in the...
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Melbourne in the spring
I looked down and a bird had left his nest at my feet. A perfect little boat, it made a refuge for the last jasmine flowers of spring. Meanwhile, the wisteria made her fragrant bower. *
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Dating adventures of a 50-something woman: The call to be authentic
For more than a decade, being in a relationship has sounded like a bad idea to me. Hard work, burden, millstone were the words that sprang to my mind when I thought about it. Occasionally, I’d pretend...
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My brilliant career (in travel): Part 2
When we last left our heroine – my 25-year-old self – I’d just escaped, reasonably intact, from the grasp of US Immigration at Honolulu airport. I’d been branded for life “evasive” and had an urgent...
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