Transformational reflections and strategies to help keep you on-purpose®

Four secret strategies to ensure you are the last to be fired!

In this blog, I would like to share with you four successful strategies to ensure you are a TOP (The On-Purpose) Performer and thereby help “bullet proof” your career. In a previous blog I explored the difference between a Me Inc! or Me Stink! Mindset. As an employee or team member you will usually demonstrate either one of these in the way you consistently serve your customers and clients. With a Me Stink! Mindset you react below the line nearly always blaming rather than taking responsibility for…

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ACTivating your Career

We all have ‘off’ days in our work situation. That is not unusual. Sometimes the stress, pressure, interactions and duties we have to perform seem to feel like we are walking around with a brick on our heads. However, what if the ‘off’ days suddenly seem to number more than they should? What if every day seems to be an ‘off’ day? You do not just feel as if you are walking around with a brick on your head, but also that you are trapped!…

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Freeing Yourself from Divided Interest

When do I say “yes” and when do I say “no”? Having recently had another birthday I got thinking about life, time and what I might do with the remainder of my earthly time frame. None of us knows what this time frame might be but as we get older we sure know that our time on earth goes very quickly. It’s a bit scary as well as sobering and challenging! What I do know is that each of us has a Purpose and we…

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Are You Caught in the Work Trap?

What are you doing with your weekends? Three things promoted me to write this article. First, the realisation that I need to get my working life into perspective and to practice what I preach! Second, an article I recently read by Travis Bradberry on ‘How successful people work less and get more done’. Thirdly, a few weeks ago I had a complete weekend off - went boating, caught some fish, walked and talked with my wife Angela and our chocolate brown labrador – Poppy, (yes,…

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Being a Top Performer Part 3 – Where Mindset and Actions Align & Mastery and Mojo Meet

In my previous two posts on being a TOP (The On-Purpose) Performer I talked about the difference between having a Think Inc! / ME Inc! Mindset (Thinking Incorporated) and a Stink Inc!/ ME Stink! (Stinking Thinking) mindset. TOP Performers have a Think Inc! mindset and are also motivated by the satisfaction that comes from being “On-Purpose” – they understand how they fulfil the needs of others and they find meaning in what they do.  They take their job to the next level by thinking like…

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