http://seminar.com.au Townsville Business Coach & Business Builder Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:03:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://seminar.com.au/want-a-kick-your-own-ass-quote-or-two/ http://seminar.com.au/want-a-kick-your-own-ass-quote-or-two/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:11:12 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=695 Words have power. No doubt ’bout it.  Buckminster Fuller called language one of the most powerful inventions of man. So? Well – you can just read a pile of words and you WILL be changed. 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How will you feel if you never, [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/the-sex-food-so-potent-that-priests-were-forbidden-to-eat-it/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/ http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:45:30 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=657 One of my new favourite quotes came to me again this morning… It came while I was allowing myself to dawdle amongst what felt like a ton of “stuff” that was “having” to be “done”. W. Edwards Deming said “It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.” Bastard.  Survival is not mandatory. A [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/ready-set-change-10-words-to-make-you-move-to-success/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/ http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:00:23 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=630 How To Use Imaginary Space Travel As Your Unlimited Source of Clarity & Motivation.. One of the traps of business, or any endeavor, is to keep focused solely on the “doings” that businesses need to get done. Our nature is get drawn into the stickiness of “concentration”. When you are at the movies, you may [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/ground-helicopter-and-celestial-views-on-your-business/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/603/ http://seminar.com.au/603/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:13:47 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=603 Weddings, Parties, Coronations? I had to chuckle a little at the spin coming from the press over the latest Newspoll showing there is a drop in support for moving Australia to a Republic. In case you have been living in a box with not TV, internet, radio or other media – there is a royal [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/603/feed/ 1 http://seminar.com.au/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/ http://seminar.com.au/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:06:38 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=553 Business and Learning Performance Tip Watch video up to 5 times faster and save a ton of time… If you are anything like me, you get to watch tons of video.  Whether it is a great, inspiring speaker, a tech guru of some kind sharing tips to increase sales, profits or traffic, or just something [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/a-secret-tip-to-save-you-lots-of-time-with-video/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/the-happy-grinch-that-used-gift-money-to-restore-sight/ http://seminar.com.au/the-happy-grinch-that-used-gift-money-to-restore-sight/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:34:59 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=534 Well – it is Christmas time again.  There are Business Christmas parties on two or three times a week.  Business owners are pouring largesse for their clients – dinners, parties, gifts. Yet I am not.  I think it is sort of nuts to only show gratitude or to work on building solid relationships in a [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/the-happy-grinch-that-used-gift-money-to-restore-sight/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/strategic-thinking-month-september/ http://seminar.com.au/strategic-thinking-month-september/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:25:59 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=448 Yes – it is true – September is really International Strategic Thinking Month. Once we let of the inference that the other months are not strategic thinking months – this can be a great opportunity to add massive leverage to all areas of our lives. Strategic Thinking for Life Has Some Basic Parts I will [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/strategic-thinking-month-september/feed/ 1 http://seminar.com.au/every-second-4-new-people-are-born/ http://seminar.com.au/every-second-4-new-people-are-born/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 22:16:21 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=207 Our current world population is “about” 6.8 billion. Projections are that within 25 years, at the current rates, there will be 10 billion people on the earth. If we do some ‘back of a napkin’ maths, this means an additional 3.2 billion people in say 25 years, give or take a month or two.  25 [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/every-second-4-new-people-are-born/feed/ 1 http://seminar.com.au/trimtab-this-part-2-your-probable-constraint-in-your-business-your-life-or/ http://seminar.com.au/trimtab-this-part-2-your-probable-constraint-in-your-business-your-life-or/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:25:48 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=193 Some time ago an excellent Social Media Coach (Ben Croft) pointed out that my blogs tend to come in waves.  It seems this is not ideal for subscribers – who may not want several posts in a few days – and I briefly considered used a plug-in that drip feeds my articles.  Then I realized [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/trimtab-this-part-2-your-probable-constraint-in-your-business-your-life-or/feed/ 0