As the age old saying goes: “YOLO!”Oh wait, that’s the new age saying. The age old saying is what that acronym actually stands for… “You Only Live Once”.Time seems to be racing at such a fast pace these days. Have you noticed?Over the past 18 months as I’ve been writing here on The Start of Happiness I’ve been doing some deep and big thinking. It’s been about getting absolute clarity of what I want to do in life and ensuring I give myself to it to make it a reality.When I look back on my life I … [Read more...]
3 Things I Wish I Did Before I Quit My Job
As you know, last year I quit my job, left the corporate world and decided it was time for me to work on something of my own. I felt it was the right time for me. I had enough experience to understand how business worked and I was also unmarried at the time with no children. I’m well aware that priorities in life change when you’re married and have children so I wanted to give it a go while this window of opportunity was still open. Now, I’m married :) ... and I’m sure that children will be on … [Read more...]
The Survey Results Are In! How Do You Compare?
The results are in!Wow, wow, wow…!!I’ve spent the last few hours going through every single response from our recent community survey and it has just blown my mind.What I have come to witness is just how different we all are, yet at the same time just how similar we all are… if that makes sense :)It is quite clear that there are some major themes and categories that come out from a survey such as the one we did. As you would expect, based on what we talk about here on The Start of Happiness, the … [Read more...]
My ‘Secret Sauce’ For Experiencing Abundance, True Happiness & Lasting Fulfillment
This is a guest post by Nash Ryker Well, each of the ingredients of my special sauce isn't really a "secret" in and of themselves. But they certainly are the secret combination to how I overcame the overwhelming failures and struggles I've went through in my past, and to go on to create a life that I truly enjoy that's now full of peace, , true happiness, prosperity and personal fulfillment doing what I love and finally making a difference in the world. Only a few short years … [Read more...]
7 Reasons Why You NEED a Coach… plus a special launch!
During last week’s post I mentioned that I had another special launch for this week. Well, today I’m excited to bring this to you! But before we get onto that, I know some of you are interested to know how my launch week went for my new business (if you’re not, feel free to skip over this section!). Gradrecruit Launch Week Wrap-Up. Last week I announced the launch of my new business – Gradrecruit. Gradrecruit is an online Graduate Careers Portal that provides up-to-date and … [Read more...]
The Power of a Smile – How Smiling Can Change Your Life and Change the World
"the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back." - Dale Carnegie This is a fun post about smiling. Why fun? Well let's face it, when we're smiling we are normally having a pretty good time! If you were to ask someone who knows me to describe who I am, undoubtedly one of the first things that they will say is that I am a continually happy or 'smiley' person. This is something that I always laugh about as it has been mentioned … [Read more...]