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Dare to Dream Business Coaching & Mentoring

Locality: Wayville, South Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 8 8372 7852

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20.01.2022 "Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, becoming a child again at Christmas time" - Laura Ingalls Wilder

20.01.2022 I was approached in the past week by the Chair of a community-based organisation about a request by a lessee to redevelop a property owned by the organisation. The Chair was seeking guidance as to what the next steps should be as the board was divided as how to respond to the request. The issue was that the redevelopment of the building proposed by the lessee was well beyond the financial capabilities of the organisation. The lessee, being aware of this, was willing to fund... the redevelopment but in return was seeking a considerably longer lease with two options to renew plus a reduction on the rent to be paid over the term of the lease and any renewals. My question was to the Chair was simple has the lessee put a formal proposal to the board for consideration? The answer was the lessee had to date simply flagged their interest in undertaking the redevelopment. I suggested the Board respond to the lessee indicating the organisation is interested in discussing the redevelopment. However, before they could do so the lessee must submit a formal proposal about the redevelopment and their expectations for the lease of the redeveloped premises. In this way the Board will not be debating hypotheticals and a range of what ifs. Instead, they will be examining a formal proposal and be able to draft a response based on whether the proposal contributes to the long term financial security of the organisation.

19.01.2022 Here is the question I love to pose to my clients when the coaching conversation turns to the action a client will take after the conversation ends. Just a imagine a log in the middle of the swamp on which ten green frogs are sitting. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? I do not rush the client for an answer. I let them take their time to ponder on what appears at first blush a simple maths equation.... Most clients will answer there are six left whereas the answer is ten. Why? Because the four only decided to jump off. For there is a big difference between deciding to do something and the actual doing . The point is that if you decide to act, do not wait until everything is perfect for that time will never come. When you are ready to act just start and risk messing up For failing is not a problem you will face. Failing is how you will get to the place you desire

18.01.2022 In the week prior to Covid-19 shut-down here in South Australia, I had a great conversation with a business owner who was aspiring to become a leader in his chosen field. However, he was struggling to accept that when he presents his vision for the future there will be people who do not buy into that vision and that some may even actively oppose him. As a result of our conversation, he is looking to shift his focus from those who will never believe to engaging with those p...eople who truly believe what he believes. The very evening after that conversation I was watching the latest season of The Crown, when I heard Maggie Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) deliver the following poem in her audience with the Queen on this very subject You have no enemies you say? Alas! My friend the boast is poor He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure must have made foes! If you have none, small is the work you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip You’ve never turned the wrong to right You’ve been a coward in the fight The poem is by Scottish poet Charles McKay (1814-1889)

16.01.2022 In the past week, I was delighted to attend the EQ Café workshop where we explored the concept of compassion. In a world experiencing the effects of a pandemic, people are increasingly feeling lonely disconnected & stressed. It has never been more important for us to be compassionate & thinking of others. One thing is clear, when we practice compassion, we feel better about ourselves. In discussing why this is so, the anthropologist Margaret Mead theorises that the first sig...n of civilization was the discovery of a 15,000-year-old fractured femur that had been broken and had healed. The femur is the longest bone in the body, linking the hip to the knee. With the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks to heal a fractured femur. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if an animal breaks its leg, it dies. It cannot run from danger; it cannot drink nor hunt for food. Wounded in this way, it is meat for its predators. No creature survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. It will be eaten first. Evidence of a broken femur that has healed, demonstrates that another person has taken the time to stay with the injured person, to bind up the wound, to carry the person to safety and has cared for them through the recovery period. A healed femur indicates someone has helped a fellow human rather than abandoning them to save their own life.

15.01.2022 "Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." Carl Bard