Month: September 2025

Real change occurs from the bottom up. It occurs from person to person, and in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change. …

Our attitudes define who we are. They are subject to change by social influences, as well as by the individual’s motivation to maintain cognitive consistency when two attitudes or attitude and behavior conflict. Read More

How do you learn to drive a car? In some respects learning to speak in public is like learning to drive a car. Yet more than 30 million people in …

How to overcome nervousness in public speaking? In this article I’ll share with you on simple tips in helping to reduce your nervousness in public speaking. Public speaking is something which must be learned like anything else. Read More

Dan Kennedy. That quote may not be 100% verbatim but I am sure that I heard Dan Kennedy say something similar to this effect once. The point is still valid …

“The worst testimonial is a hundred times better than the best piece of sales copy.” Read More

The customer, as the old saying goes, is the king! A king he truly is he believes, that is, till the not-so-charitable mandarins of marketing let him know and make …

“One cannot always oblige; one can, however, always speak obligingly…” says Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual master, which is an exact explanation for the complex role of corporate communication in modern corporations today. Read More

Intercultural awareness is necessary for two reasons. Firstly, it minimises the possibility of misunderstandings and/or the causing of offense through intercultural mishaps. Secondly, it is a means to maximising the …

The international flavour of many people’s jobs naturally means that there is greater interaction between people from different cultures. Within the business environment, understanding and coping with intercultural differences between people is critical to ensuring that interpersonal communication is successful. Read More

At the time of the accident, she was driving a little Nissan Micra on the 450km journey from university to our home for the mid-year holidays. She swerved for a …

About 18 months ago, my daughter had a bad car accident, and her knee was smashed. After about six months she was able to walk again, but could not bend the knee past 90 degrees, making walking and other exercise difficult. It changed her life, and started affecting her back badly. Read More

Utilizing Ping Declare Updates The term “ping” is used in a couple different ways with computer systems. Pinging now includes a simple notification program that lets you tell various outlets …

Putting up content on a blog does not mean a whole lot if no one knows they exist. Blog owners need to take active steps to market their work to produce attention from their current viewers, attract new visitors through blog post marketing, and Google. A number of different tracks are available to alert various online sources and generate the visitors your website deserves. Read More

To show you what I mean, I’ll tell you about a series of three articles I wrote that have gone on making me money for well over 10 years. And …

I’ve been working as a writer for many years now and one thing that I’ve noticed happening several times is that I don’t always know where my income is going to come from. Sometimes I can write something and get paid once, or write a book and the royalties keep coming from it for years, or sometimes, I write something and it can earn me money in ways I never thought of. Read More

Ambition may have something to do with it, yet usually it is much more than that. Ambition is really a strong desire. Desire alone does not achieve the results we …

Most people strive to improve themselves in some ways. You may notice that highly ambitious people are always striving to improve in many ways. Yet there are some people who seriously desire to improve themselves but cannot seem to do it. Why? Read More

If you are primarily motivated away from things that you don’t like then it is important that you use that strategy successfully to stay motivated. If your house is messy, …

Some people are motivated away from the things that they don’t like and some people are motivated towards the things they want. For example, some people will work on increasing their income because they don’t like where they live or they don’t like being in debt. That would be called an Away From strategy; moving away from something that is uncomfortable. A Towards person increases their income because they are thinking of the home that they prefer or they are thinking about wanting to increase their savings or their retirement fund. Most people have some combination of both such as 60/40 in either direction. Statistically, this is the most common combination with most people leaning in one direction or the other rather than equally balanced. There is a social bias that a Towards strategy is preferable but that is not necessarily true. If someone has an Away From strategy and it is working then it is a good strategy. Read More