Mr Hyde's Other Notebook

100 Days left!

 

Yep, it's that time of the year again!

Long term readers of this blog know that every year I take part in the 100 Day Challenge.
It helps me focus on what I should be doing and what things I should be avoiding.

Join me!  Click the banner for full information and to download several goal setting resources.

Conference venue with a difference

I mentioned in my last post I had been doing a series of Creative Thinking Workshops with LCM Health Care. One of these sessions was with the directors of all their Private Hospitals and it was held at Mary MacKillop Place.

They have quite a good conference set up there, with different size spaces available and quite an amazing peaceful atmosphere just minutes away from the hustle and bustle of North Sydney station.

Well worth considering if you were after something a little different. With the gardens, Chapel, Museum and tomb of Mary MacKillop.

http://www.marymackillopplace.org.au/index.html

 

Impossible

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

Muhammad Ali

The BookRapper

This is good. Seriously good.

Melbourne writer, thinker and business coach Geoff McDonald takes a current business best seller and does a very funky condensed version. He does one a month and there are 18 so far.

Here's the good bit. He used to sell these off his website.
They are now free! You can download whichever you like or a zip file of the whole lot

http://www.bookrapper.com/index.html

Condensed versions based on -

  Seth Godin- "Meatball Sundae", Chip & Dan Heath "Made to Stick", Gladwell "Outliers", Timothy Ferriss "4 Hour Work Week" . etc etc

You'll be the conversation hit at the Xmas party!

Motivate Your Memory - Part 2

I've had a few questions come in about our new book Motivate Your Memory, so I thought I'd cover them here.

Firstly, Who is the target Audience?  Well the book is suitable for and aimed at a wide range of people.

Students, Teachers, Speakers, Sales Professionals, Trivia Buffs are just a few.

But importantly, I hope the readers are people who have in the past seen adverts for highly priced Memory Courses or Books, were interested, but didn't want to invest a lot, just to see if it worked for them!
(Note - we do not try and upsell you to a more expensive course after you read this book. We do actually list a few other resources and a few free options!)

Is there much theory?   NO! We teach the technique and motivate you to put it into practice.
Once you see that it does work, you may like to find out more, but you don't need to.

Do I have to be clever to benefit from this?  No, you just have to be willing to give it a try.
In fact, I suggest in the book that you buy it and then try and teach the skill to someone else. Perhaps a student at school or someone entering the workforce.

Remember the book comes with a money back guarantee and is just $9.50

PDF File with Automatic Download.    Full Details Here

Essential Motivation Handbook

Long time readers of this blog know I'm a huge fan of Leo Babauta.
This is his new book and a companion to Zen To Done

Click here to view more details

Ascend Melbourne Women!

As noted a few days ago I'll be MC at a terrific event coming up in Melbourne on the 4th of September. This is a follow up to the event held in Sydney a month or so ago and like that one, I'm sure it will sell out again quickly.

Aimed at Women in Business it is a development day with a range of great speakers and sponsors.

(Last time, not only did the attendees take away bucketloads of great ideas & new contacts, they also scored some very generous gifts from the sponsors!)

So if you need to take your career up a notch or know someone who does ..
check out the Topics and Full Details    HERE

Latest TesTIMonial

"Timothy was our MC at the sphinxx Development Day in Sydney this year. He came highly recommended but even so completely surprised me with his level of professionalism, interaction with participants and complete understanding of what it takes to keep an event tracking smoothly on the day. I have already booked him for another event and recommend you do too!"

Jen Dalitz  http://www.sphinxx.org/

By the way... there will be another sphinxx Development Day in Melbourne on September 4th.
I'll post details here in the next few days.

Happy Birthday P.T. Barnum

199 years old and still plenty to teach us!

"Every crowd has a silver lining." is the line that most people remember OR
"There's a sucker born every minute," (which probably wasn't said by him,)
but Phineas had some other thoughts well worth our attention.

# "Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds
upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object
which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done."

# "Without promotion something terrible happens, nothing!"

# "Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary.
Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep
changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always
'under the harrow'."

# "Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you
succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it."

# "Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season,
not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that
which can be done just as well now...Ambition, energy, industry,
perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business."

If you would like to read his book The Art of Money Getting -  Golden Rules for making Money
it's available here online ...

http://tinyurl.com/3lkt26

sphinxx - connecting to make life easier

It was a big day for me on Thursday when I was invited to be MC at a sphinxx development day.

(I mentioned this a few weeks ago, as It was a public event that anyone could attend.)

Sponsored by Westpac up in their Corporate Headquarters it was a great day. I'll be telling you about some of the speakers over the next few days.

But if you are female and in business large or small,  be it your own or someone else's, have a look at the great resources on their website.