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Welcome to Monday Morning: Brand New Year

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

Carl Bard

Thought for the week

The New Year is often seen as a time to make some changes in our lives. It is a time when we can make a commitment to ourselves to ensure that 2010 is a success in a way that makes us happy and fulfilled. We also get the chance to look at things that didn't work for us in 2009 and remember that although we cannot rewrite the past, we can certainly create different endings.

Challenge for the week

What endings do you want to rewrite? What do you want to achieve by the end of 2010? What do you need to do in the next 12 months to create a fulfilling life and prosperous career/business?

Welcome to Monday Morning: Reaching Beyond

If you reach for the moon and you happen to miss, you still land amongst the stars.

Author unknown

Thought for the week

Remember that people are more motivated when the goals set are challenging and attractive.

Challenge for the week

What exciting and motivating goals can you set either for yourself or for somebody else this week?

Fabulous Festive Wishes for 2010!

Wishing you all a happy Christmas and happy holidays with your families!

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As always we have donated the money we would normally spend on paper Christmas cards to the Microloan Foundation.  We hope you have a fantastic holiday and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!

All our love Christina, Andy and the team at Time 4 Change and CGA Management.

Welcome to Monday Morning: Magical Time Of Year

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveller back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

Thought for the week

Christmas holds different meanings for different people. For some it holds great religious significance, and for others it merely means a few days off from work! However you want to spend this Christmas, remember that it can be a magical time, reminding us how to have fun. The festive season offers us an opportunity to connect and share with others and to take a little time out to renew ourselves during the long, dark winter days.

Challenge for the week

How best can you renew yourself this Christmas time? Who do you want to catch up with? How can you have fun?

Welcome to Monday Morning: Building a Reputation

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

Henry Ford

Thought for the week

If you want to build a reputation you will need to start to be somebody in your chosen career area.

Challenge for the week

How can you contribute to your field? There are many ways of doing this. Some people write articles or books or give talks. Others, set-up groups, carryout research, workshops or become mentors. In what way could you be somebody in your field of expertise?

£1,500 for a Financial Health Check in Yorkshire

Financial health check – grant available of upto £1,500

The criteria for this is pretty simple.

• Be an SME, including Social Enterprise SMES,
• Based in Yorkshire and Humber
• 5 or more employees; excluding owners and non executive directors
• Must be adversely affected by the present economic climate;
• Have been trading for more than 1 year and have a history of profitable trading until last year when the economic climate had an impact;
• Be solvent and able to demonstrate a viable future;
• Have a clear measurable goal which they need the health check to help them achieve;
• Need to understand as a matter of urgency how best to focus their energies;
• Be willing to share the content of the health check with Business Link;

The link to the application page is at the bottom of this page.

Or you can call Business Link Yorkshire direct on : 08456 048 048

11 Common Characteristics of Successful Creatives

I’m just reading Mihaly Csikszentimihalyi’s (pronounced Chick-sent-mi-hi) thoughts on being creative.  His paper Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Inventions (free to download as a word document), is the culmination of 30 years of research into creativity.  His work dispels several myths about being creative and highlights the following common features:-

Successful creatives… Continue reading…

Welcome to Monday Morning: Empowerment

After the crew is told they are now empowered, Dr. Crusher begins doing medical experiments on unsuspecting enlisted personnel while Worf slaughters everyone he considers weak

Star Trek

Thought for the week

The idea of empowerment is not new. Lao Tse in 6th Century China said that a characteristic of great leaders was that when a task was done the people will say `we did it ourselves.

Challenge for the week

During the week, in what way can you allow others to take more responsibility for themselves?

Art of Banter Framework

Well I can’t believe its been two week’s since I delivered the Art of Banter at the national NLP Conference in London.    It was such fun to deliver the workshop and I’m delighted to be invited back to present the art of banter at the NLP Conference next year.  I will post more details as I find out the details.

As promised I’ve uploaded the Art of Banter Framework to support you in spreading the joy of banter to others.   I’ve already received some great emails from some of you telling me how your banter is raising your game.  Keep them coming I love hearing what you are up to!

If you attended and have questions then feel free to contact me through the website.  I love receiving feedback on what went well during the session and on ideas for improving it next time so don’t be shy! Share them in the comments.

Download the framework here.

Free Grants to grow your business in Yorkshire

Lucky Yorkshire businesses with over 4 employees are being given up to £3000 to spend on growing their businesses.  How fab is that!   Especially since money from grants and funds are running out in the area.

The aim of the money is to help businesses who are solvent,  and are able to demonstrate a viable future to overcome specific challenges or increase skill sets.   Types of challenges could include: marketing, sales, people performance, leadership skills, strategic planning.

I think this is a good initiative from the government as growing businesses mean a growing economy.  So if you or somebody you know would like to make use of this money to stimulate growth in their organisation contact me ASAP.  These pots of money rarely hang around for long.

We’ve just found out about this fund as soon as it gets published somewhere on the internet I’ll share a direct link