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How many times have you stood in front of a door that could lead you to a better,brighter future but have been too darned much of a yellowbellied scardycat to reach out and push the door open? Most of us have walked away from the door wondering if maybe, just maybe we made a mistake by not trusting our instinct to open the door? How many times do you read about it? How many times do you keep saying to yourself, “OK I promise that from tomorrow I will do it”?

How many promises have you broken? How many more disappointments will you weakly let yourself endure? Oh give up why doncha and just phone your local “Soft Bendy Backbones For Rent” outlet. It’ll save time and effort and quicken your demise. Yes go on and make another false promise about that diet, those piano lessons, the bricklaying course or whatever it is that really appeals to your complete lack of ENGAGEMENT.

But you are weak and pathetic and so you won’t do a damn thing about it. Will you? Heck, you don’t even use one of your options to phone a friend or ask the audience. Now that is really pathetic.

But all is not lost. There is a way to help yourself out of the 120ft deep hole you are digging. All you have to do is point your mouse up here above and to your right in the sidebar at the brown cardboard box with the blue arrow pointing into it and/or click here to download the ENGAGE presentation.

If you enjoy being called a cowardy custard, fine. Don’t download the file. Just stay as you are for the rest of your life or you could change and Engage some important stuff about life and make your future a lot brighter. Afterall, the choice is yours.

Open The Door to Your Future

ENGAGE 2.0 is here.

You can download ENGAGE 2.0 by clicking the download icon below.

People and the things they do in this life have an amazing capacity to suprise you out of the blue when you least expect it.

For those of my staff who were previously thought of by their ex-bosses as underachievers, I decided to do what I could do to bring out the best in them. They deserved this chance to prove they were not at all underachievers.

And they deserved the opportunity to prove that they could respond to the right stimulus about some important things that do matter in this life and then be able to go ahead to better and more demanding challenges in work and their lives.

After taking stock of the team and their various perceived shortcomings, I put together a small Powerpoint presentation which I call ENGAGE. Most of my staff called ENGAGE “shock treatment”. I call ENGAGE a reality check or wake up and smell the coffee, because it states the obvious in a way that leaves you no room to misunderstand. And ENGAGE says those things that you are often too PC inclined to say in a face to face consultation.

Of the staff who took part, all have increased their job perfomance by a minimum 35% on actual to target. None of the perceived underachievers is one any more. So dramatic is the improvement that last week I sent in application to extend a temp’s contract by 6 months during which time I want to convert her to permanent. Wow! You should see the confidence in her now.

Here are 20+ ways to fully engage some important things in life. Click the icon below to download ENGAGE 2.0.

Unzip the contents and enjoy the slideshow and begin Engaging today!

20+ Ways to Engage

The Moon

Look at it. Wonderful isn’t it? So close you could stretch out your arm and touch it with your fingertips.

And so it is with our deepest dreams, personal aspirations and business goals. One of my goals since I was a young boy in Namibia, is to own a telescope that will let me clearly see the moon close up and much more detail than what can be seen in the photo above. But as so often happens, one’s life gets in the way of certain aspirations so they go unfulfilled.

I still live in hope and with Christmas only a matter of weeks away, I wonder what Santa will bring me? I am also hoping to oneday meet a certain young lady who I have come to respect and admire for her dedication to living her life to the full while also fighting for a better tomorrow for HIV/AIDS victims. Something tells me that I will realise none of the two dreams if I do not ENGAGE the process to make them occur. And so I have decided to write to Santa and to now book my return flight to Johannesburg. You might think that these two ‘dreams’ are pitifully small and easily realisable. Well to me they represent two things I need.

One other Xmas gift I have not dared contemplate getting is an invitation to a 27 Dinner. Like maybe the last week November for example?!! Hint, hint.

All that remains for me to do now is to begin ENGAGING positive thoughts. Self-fulfilling prophesy thoughts.

You Could Touch It