To be a successful entrepreneur you are going to have to learn to deal with failure. There is no way around it. Thomas Edison tried over ten thousand different experiments before he finally demonstrated the first incandescent light bulb on October 21, 1879. Bill Gates’ first company, Traf-O-Data, was a…

RESEARCH YOUR AUDIENCE It amazes me how some speakers will show up for a speaking engagement and really not know anything about the audience they are speaking to. Many speakers just get lazy and feel that their message is so important that anyone would want to hear it. They couldn’t…

I bet that you can’t tell me that Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” That statement is very true, for there has never, in the history of humanity, been any discovery…

Studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs possess these characteristics: Self-confidence This is that magical power of having confidence in oneself and in one’s powers and abilities. Achievement Oriented Results are gained by focused and sustained effort. They concentrate on achieving a specific goal, not just accomplishing…

It’s a bit like riding a bike, once you’ve learned how to meditate then it’s a process you’ll have access to the whole of your life. But where can you learn to meditate? There are meditation tutorials on the internet, so they are often a good place to…

As the information age rolls on we are finding more and more universities that are willing to invest in the education of students who may not necessarily be in a position to attend classes at that particular university. The offerings are still somewhat limited but there are opportunities to earn…

We live in the information age. We have grown so accustomed to information at the speed of light that the prospect of not having immediate access to countless numbers of facts and figures with the mere click of a few buttons for many of us is simply disconcerting. For this…

As our lives become cluttered with apps, with each one promising to make you more productive, organised or even wealthier, could it be possible that there is one that will pay you to be healthier? Well that day has finally arrived. On scrolling through the app store, researching how to…

“Bears” and “Bulls”, “Accelerators” and “Pitches” are normally the domain of the of the well learned financial elite, a light year away from the common vernacular of a high school student in the yard. But that is all about to change…. Far from the bustle of the heart Melbourne’s financial…