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. 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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/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/ http://seminar.com.au/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:37:00 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=597 How fast will your business IT operations change in the next 2 years? About 30 years ago I was told about the “Innovation Life Cycle”.  It was at Uni in a Marketing lecture, and the lecturer zoomed past it like a dragonfly passing a hungry frog.   Today as I look at the predictions made [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/business-predictions-that-melt-old-ways-of-operating/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/another-great-quote-his-finest-hour/ http://seminar.com.au/another-great-quote-his-finest-hour/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:54:27 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=583 Winston Churchill “…To every man there comes, that special moment when he will be tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a special thing unique to him. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for that work which could have been his finest hour.”]]> http://seminar.com.au/another-great-quote-his-finest-hour/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/ http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:01:35 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=571 Prime Time for Success Part 1 Here in the tropics of North Queensland it is the “wet” season.    And it has reminded me to keep my “thinking powder” dry.   Back in the last century (and the one before) it was essential for armies to keep their gunpowder dry.  And it was prudent to [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/prime-time-for-success/feed/ 0 http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/ http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:32:44 +0000 Business Coach James Hooper http://seminar.com.au/?p=563 How Does A Great Insight Come From a Macaw, A Pug, Walter Russell and a TV Dog Whisperer? You have probably already noticed that often the most profound insights come from a series of almost unrelated events.   And that often these events can happen even within a day? This week was a fairly “normal” [...]]]> http://seminar.com.au/the-secret-to-escaping-struggle-of-work-part-1/feed/ 0 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