3 Shifts to Minimise Stress this Festive Season

It’s undeniably a busy time of year. The end of year social events, recitals and performances. The Christmas preparations and holidays preparations. The work projects and household projects that you want to complete. It’s a lot.

Accredited Speaker Keynote on Resilience Now Live!

In August 2024, I had the privilege to speak at the Toastmasters International Convention in Anaheim and succeeded in becoming the first Accredited Speaker in New Zealand, (one of only 95 every award worldwide).

You can now watch the replay!

3 Keys to Deliver Effective Praise

This is an excerpt from Lauren Parsons’ book “Pitfalls and Positives of Remote Work: How to maintain a thriving connected team even when you’re spread apart.”

Practical Ways to Build a Connected Team Culture

Creating and sustaining a close-knit team is a challenge especially if some of your team work remotely all or part of the time. It’s also more difficult to know how your colleagues are really doing when you’re not meeting in person. You miss a lot of the body language cues.

Top Time Tip – Saying No

The word ‘No’ is one of your most powerful time management strategies. Most people find it difficult to say ‘No’, but doing so allows you more time to say ‘Yes’ to the things that are really important. There is however a caveat to this and two things to avoid with saying ‘No’. Listen in to hear what they are… I … Read More

David Award Announcement – Lauren Parsons Wellbeing

The David Awards exist to celebrate heros in small business throughout New Zealand. I discovered a few weeks ago that I was a finalist in the Marketing and Solo Meo categories.

Today – I’ve just found out that I won the Solo Meo Award!

Huge heartfelt thanks go to all of my supporters and clients. I couldn’t do the work that I do without you!

Study Tips For Students (of all ages!)

When you write down your goals it becomes easier to know where your priorities lie. You can then, with greater ease, stay focused when seductive time stealers such as TV, friends or a sunny day try to lure you away.

THRIVE TV 084 -Bouncing Forward No Matter What

Discover a self-leadership principle that has shaped Ian’s life, the resilience / mind-set mastery tool to reframe any situation, and the lessons learnt on the type2 diabetic recovery journey.