Greetings and gratitude! Your response to my email survey last week gave me over 30 powerful questions to answer in my upcoming course. You have truly helped me co-create something wonderful! As a thanks for your support, I’ve answered two of your biggest questions in this video. 2010 was a pivotal year for me. I’d had 20 years employed in banking and 10 years in my own marketing … [Read more...]
Announcement and a quick favour to ask.
I know I’ve been off the air for some time, so thank you for sticking with me. I have an excuse. I’ve been head down and tail up producing The Purpose Project Online Course. It’s a course that pulls out the very best lessons from The Purpose Project book published in 2017. This course has been a long-awaited ‘labour of love’ and to be honest, I’m nervous because I don't know if I've hit all the … [Read more...]
A Writer’s Life & 3 Big Questions for You
In 2007, at age 43, I decided to have a crack at writing my first book, so I took myself off on my own private writers retreat to a rustic little cabin overlooking a tiny secluded lake. It was winter at the time and numbingly cold. For four days and four nights I sat at the rickety old kitchen table hunched over my trusty computer with the heater on full blast and a snuggly blanket over my … [Read more...]
Maggie’s Path to Purpose
“I’m stuck,” Maggie lamented as she sat across the table from me with her well-read copy of The Purpose Project. “I’m about to take on a new role in People and Culture and I want to inject my own sense of purpose into it but have no idea how.” “Tell me everything that matters to you (and bothers you) about the role and your company,” I responded. After 15 minutes, Maggie finally landed on what … [Read more...]
Could a Sense of Purpose solve Depression in your Workplace?
According to SANE Australia, one in five people take time off work each year for depression, anxiety or stress. At the same time, Gallup results show that 87% of the world’s workers are either disengaged or actively disengaged at work. And it seems that these tragic statistics are not abating, that they’re in fact, getting worse. Might the billion-dollar solution to these problems be to provide … [Read more...]