Posted by Sam on 1 January, 2010 with Sam | 
Chris has already done a great job of outlining some important steps that can really help to support your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010, and whilst I’ve touched on it here at ActionPodcast before, I felt tonight was a brilliant opportunity to encourage you to consider your intentionality for this new year too!
If we think of each year of our lives as a chapter, and look back at the last couple, there’s probably an underlying theme or sense of what that year meant to us in the overall scheme of our lives. For the last couple of years, I’ve set conscious intentions for my chapters and they’ve worked for me in a way that resolutions never really have.
2008 was a year of intention Read more of this article »
Posted by Chris on 30 December, 2009 with Chris |
Every year at this time, millions of people pledge to themselves and their friends what is going to change in the new year – the dreaded New Year’s Resolutions. I want to lose weight, I want to stop smoking, I want to save more money and get out of debt. But numerous research studies confirm that nearly 95% of all resolutions are never achieved. In fact, most resolutions or goals for the year are well off-track by the middle of February, and are completely forgotten four months later.
How is it that millions of people want something that is important to them, is absolutely possible to achieve, will provide tremendous benefits and rewards, yet they fail so miserably at getting what they want?
Here are three key reasons why New Year’s resolutions don’t work: Read more of this article »
Posted by Gina on 12 December, 2009 with Gina |
C.H.A.N.G.E. The final frontier… The big C-word is an inevitable part of life, but something most of us resist on a daily basis. We like to think we’re flexible, that we can always ‘go with the flow’. But instead, many of us simply tie ourselves even tighter to our mast of familiarity.
Find something you’re scared of, and 9 times out of 10 it involves some kind of change in your life: new job, new relationship, new hair colour, new house, new school, new teacher, new country, new car! The list is endless.
So why do we resist? And how can we overcome the fear of change? Or rather, do we really have to?
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Posted by Paul on 1 December, 2009 with Chris, Gina, Paul, Sam |
Paul, Sam, Gina and Chris – the Action Podcast team – have been recording and uploading our motivational podcasts for a whole year now. Thanks to you our shows on the internet and iTunes are gaining increasing recognition and some great feedback from you, the listeners.
We would love to celebrate our special birthday with a few of your comments and reviews via the iTunes store.
Please take a few minutes to log in to iTunes and register your customer rating and a customer review.
Thanks you so much in advance – we look forward to reading your reviews soon!
Paul, Sam, Gina and Chris
The Action Podcast Team
Posted by Sam on 30 November, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
Last week Paul & Sam had to skip their usual podcasting date, as Sam’s wireless connection picked that night to go on strike! Instead of totally skipping it, the time was used for a phone call to discuss the exciting idea for a topic Sam had thought of, as well as to update each other on current challenges.
This week, technology was on best-behaviour. But neither Sam nor Paul could remember the topic they’d been planning to podcast about! What happens when you just can’t remember…?!
Paul: So Sam, do you have any ideas for a topic tonight?
Sam: Um, didn’t we have one last week that we discussed and got really excited about?
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Posted by Paul on 13 November, 2009 with Paul |
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What would you have done differently?
I was visiting a team of administrators this week to give them a presentation on how to work more effectively with another department. Whilst I was fine tuning my presentation I over heard two people having a conversation that really wasn’t going anywhere. Lets call them A and B for simplicities sake.
A wanted B to do a piece of work. B was in the middle of doing something and states that he cannot do that right now. These two points of view were repeated a few times with out much more being added or taken away. The result was A walked away saying “fine whatever”.
Both A and B were clearly trying to convey a message that didn’t seem to be resonating with the other person. So it got me thinking what was going wrong and how could they have had a more productive exchange?
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Posted by Paul on 28 October, 2009 with Paul |
We have just celebrated our first birthday here at ActionPodcast.com. In the last year we have produced 60 shows and have been downloaded almost 15,000 times! So part of that celebration we are organising a meetup up for local listeners in London UK and anyone that is interested in personal development/growth.
Make new friends, meet with like minded people and enjoy an evenings discussion on a specially selected personal development topic.
You can find out more information and reserve your place by logging on to http://www.meetup.com/actionpodcast
Places are limited! So make sure you snap one up as the event is already filling up!
I really hope to see you there!
Paul
PS. Why not bring along a friend as well? But make sure they also sign up at http://www.meetup.com/actionpodcast before it’s too late.
Posted by Chris on 21 June, 2009 with Chris |
Sometimes kids say things that make us laugh because it’s an unexpected phrase from someone so young. Sometimes they say things that show wisdom beyond their years that cause us to stop in our tracks and really think about how we ‘older kids’ behave, view the world and what we believe.
I received a tweet this week which quoted a young girl. This young girl is battling cancer and going through chemotherapy. She told her parents “”Everything will be OK in the end; If it’s not OK, it is not the end”. She also says her mum Read more of this article »
Posted by Sam on 8 June, 2009 with Sam, Uncategorized |
Sometimes in life, you get shat upon. Sometimes, there’s no avoiding it or the messy clean-up job that follows.
As a teen, I owned a shirt that said:
“I’m always in the shit –
Only the depth varies!”
It can be a great metaphor for what life ‘throws’ at you. Still: there are times when you half expect it, and other moments where the timing could not be any worse.
A few weeks ago – I was shat on, quite literally.
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Posted by Gina on 1 June, 2009 with Gina |
Creating rapport
Other people are our greatest resource. Most everything you’ll ever want in life, you’ll need someone else to help you get it. From dry-cleaning to a promotion. From the fine art of sexual conjoinment, to that convertible you’ve been coveting. It takes (more than) two to tango. You can’t do it all alone. The benefits of creating and maintaining rapport with other human beings are enormous, so unless you’re a natural, it’s an essential skill worth learning.
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