There are many reasons why people avoid setting goals. Perhaps the main reason is that they are immobilised by their fear of failure. Unfortunately our society is structured in such a way that we become very failure conscious. During your early years at school you probably did many spelling tests. You may have written 17 [...]

The first thing to realise when setting goals is you only have a limited amount of time in which to achieve the things that you want to achieve. Time is a very scarce commodity. Even if you live to be eighty years of age that does not represent a great deal of time. Let’s assume [...]

Imagine that you are flying in a Jumbo Jet which is 600 kilometres east of Sydney and 30,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean. The flight is going very smoothly and the cabin crew have just finished serving lunch. You settle back in your seat to take a nap when the Captain’s voice comes over the [...]

This article has been kindly provided by Tom Merrick, a personal trainer based in Coffs Harbour. Whether you’re working on losing weight, becoming healthier, making more money, finding the right partner or anything that requires persistence. There is one thing that you can do to make reaching your goals so much faster! It’s called positive [...]

Over the past few years my Rotary Club (The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour Daybreak) has been involved in a major project which involves setting up Lifesaving Towers on five of our local beaches. The Director of the Project, Loretta Rigby, has personally immersed herself in the project devoting countless hours of her time coordinating [...]