When I was teaching our Breakthrough to Success at CIDA University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where underprivileged youth get a free education, several students shared stories of incredible hardship and poverty.
I recall one young woman describing what she had to endure to support her whole family at the age of 13 in the remote village where she grew up. Instead of feeling sorry for herself though, she said, "I realised that if I wanted my future to be different, I had to come with the change."
Arnold Schwarzenegger holds two Guinness Book of World Records entries: the first for the most perfectly developed physique, the second for the worst American accent. Strangely, although both acknowledgements are poles apart, they reflect the nature of his incredible success writes Jonathan Jackson.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's perfect physique came as the consequence of his desire to break free of the shackles of working class Austrian life; accepting the award for worst American accent meant he had fulfilled his dream of being an American.
We live in a highly visual society, even Presidents recognise the importance of being camera savvy.
You only need to listen to the news to see how much attention is being placed on what President Obama and his wife Michelle are wearing. Celebrities hire stylists to send out the right message and avoid being ranked on the ‘Worst Dressed Celebrity’ lists. Companies spend billions of dollars to project an image that differentiate themselves from their competition and become the product or service of choice.
Natasha Bing and Sky Leigh are often asked how they created the business and lives they wanted? How did they succeed where others had failed? Their stories are testimonies to thinking big.
How did two part-time businesswomen and part-time mothers from Hawkes Bay, New Zealand manage to organise Jack Canfield to speak in New Zealand? Their journey began in October 2008 on the completion of a Personal Development programme.
After selling and renovating houses for over 10 years, full-time mum Stacey Lappin felt she was paying too much money to real estate agents. It was then that Stacey decided to find an alternative to put more money back into her pocket and the pockets of other owners.
Thus she founded remoov.com.au a new web-based technology that gives homeowners an alternative to selling their home with a traditional real estate agent.
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