If you want to be more successful, one of the most vital relationships you can develop is with an accountability partner.

Accountability partners hold us responsible for meeting deadlines, accomplishing goals and making progress. They are a powerful combination of cheerleader and coach who make it easier to achieve our goals – and have more fun along the way.

How Accountability Relationships Work

When you enter into a relationship with an accountability partner, you agree to hold each other’s feet to the fire. Talking on a regular basis is essential for maintaining momentum and making steady progress toward your respective goals.

Ideally, you should check in with your accountability partner every day with a five-minute call. During these brief conversations, you’ll each state your goals for the day, as well as update your partner about whether or not you kept the commitments you made the previous day. Your partner will take notes about what you commit to...

A note from our CEO Frankie Sheahan:

These are unprecedented times and the devastation and loss it has brought and will bring about for many families, homes and businesses has been and will be absolutely catastrophic and my heartfelt thoughts are with each and everyone.

It's a worry for us all to ensure we stay protected, resilient, and healthy both physically and mentally and abide by the rules set out by our Government.

But we also need to take a step back from this and look at turning this crisis into an opportunity for your life.

For me personally as a father, husband and entrepreneur, being adaptable is what’s required by me right now. I've been fortunate to hear some of the greatest visionaries on the planet speak at Pendulum Summit - from Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Randi Zuckerberg, Bear Grylls, Robin Sharma to Dr Joe Dispenza and have learned that it's not WHAT happens to you but how you PERCEIVE, DECIDE and ACT on it.

For me, to keep my family...

“Leading yourself and others is always both challenging and rewarding, but a leader’s true mettle is tested in dynamic and disruptive conditions. When uncertainty is high and the ground is shifting under your feet, an adaptive mindset is vital.” - Dr. Trish Gorman, Managing Director of the Goff Strategic Leadership Centre

Leading in Disruptive Times may sound like a special case of leadership, but to many of you it is ‘just another Tuesday.’ For industries ranging from medical devices to automobiles and from legal services to home security management, Dr. Gorman highlights that we have seen new entrants and new technologies, often from unexpected quarters disturbing the established order and posing unique and serious challenges for leaders.

For example: For players in the health diagnostics and monitoring business, the feature on Fitbit or Apple Watch providing feedback on sleep quality was an early warning. To be able to detect anomalies in heart...

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What Are You Waiting For?

What creates a thriving culture? Is it the leaders? The company mission statement? The organic muffins? To me, it is people that are the biggest asset to an organisation. They are the pivotal contributors to creating a compassionate and winning culture. Below, I have elaborated upon seven touch points that will ensure a thriving culture.

Value and Genuine Appreciation: People must feel valued and they must feel a genuine appreciation of both themselves intrinsically and their work. It’s not sufficient to laud them once a year with a strong performance review or a bonus; they must feel valued each and every day.

A Collective Vision: Individuals develop high levels of self-motivation when they feel that they are an integral part of a team realising a collective vision. They must truly believe in this vision and consider it to be larger than the mundane day-to-day issues that will inevitably arise.

Momentum: Individuals need forward momentum to satisfy their yearning for growth....

Michelle A. Hardwick of Release...Peace is a highly qualified Hypnotherapist, advanced Trainer and Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). 

Listen to Michelle's Grounding Exercise or Relaxation audio here.

The focus of this blog is to introduce a variety of strategies to help deal with stress and create calmness in your life and career.

Managing Stress - creating calm in your career

Levels of stress are again peaking in the current business and economic climates. We all have personal experience of the cost of stress to our lives yet knowing how to deal with it, is ultimately the challenge.

Plus and Minus

Some stress is positive - we might feel a sense of excitement e.g. like the thrill of being on a rollercoaster ride, this type of stress keeps us on our toes and makes us feel alive (albeit temporarily).

Usually stress creates a host of negative experiences: e.g. feeling worried,...

Michelle A. Hardwick of Release...Peace is a highly qualified Hypnotherapist, advanced Trainer and Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). 

Listen to Michelle's Grounding Exercise or Relaxation audio here.

Loving Ourselves
Loving our self is an essential and very important part of our healing and evolution. When we love ourselves we offer the gift of love to everyone around us as well. Self-love is the most compassionate, gentle, loving and kind thing we offer our Self.

Not Loving Ourselves
Most of us on the journey of life have invariably made a few mistakes along the way. If we judge ourselves for what we did/didn’t do – then it’s likely that we have feelings of shame/guilt. Holding onto these feelings prevent us from experiencing self-love, and keep us in a place of inner conflict or turmoil. When we are out of balance like this, we tend to hurt other people too.

Compassion: Loving...