Confidence and clarity are essential ingredients to living a life empowered. But they take a beating at times don’t they? A mind full of steam, is overtaken by a head full of doubt. It happens far too often. Strength, Confidence and Clarity is what we want, but how do we get it, and how do we keep it? A tip that I have come to appreciate is our ability to get “grounded”. Getting grounded helps you to gain traction in your life and your dreams. You become earthed, at one with the world, and in doing so reset the energy…
Author: Tony Curl
Tony Curl
Tony Curl has been a successful corporate leader for 30 years. He now works alongside leaders in Australia to maintain clarity on their vision and purpose, and helps map their way around their roadblocks and obstacles. Unless you take action on your goals, they remain a dream.
Every day we all face our battles. They can take many forms and not one of us is spared. Every day for me, starts with an interesting battle. It’s an internal battle, but it’s also one I watch. And every time there is a winner. Whether that winner is good for me is another question, but every battle has a winner. Allow me to share this battle and the strategy that works for me…. well, most days anyways. Inside all of us we have ingrained habits that are wired into our brain. Operating automatically within us, the quality of our…
I didn’t see it coming. Sometime life throws a punch which we don’t see coming. Punches that come without even a hint. This was one of those times. Working for a large retail store in North Queensland as a Department Manager, I usually only spoke with our District Manager, Ray, when he toured my department, but today was different. He had requested a meeting. What? That never happens and it created some concern for me. What could he want? What have I done? Was I in trouble? What’s going on? I had seen redundancies in recent times within the company,…
26th May, 2013 a brave little boy lost his fight and left a close knit family network reeling and looking for answers. Grasping for answers. Carter Desmond was that little boy. Born just four weeks before, his fight for life started at the beginning. He fought infection. He fought sickness. He fought internal organs that wouldn’t work. He fought a heart that wouldn’t function. He faced almost daily operations. He fought bravely for every day of his short life. Until that day, when he lost the fight. Life can be unfair. Answers were nowhere to be found. Carter left a…
As I pulled through the final wave and paddled beyond the break, I turned around to see where my young fella Tim was. He was nowhere to be seen. Turning my gaze to the shoreline I expected to see him playing in the whitewater closer to shore, but he wasn’t there. Initially I was confused, but now I was gripped with fear. A fun day surfing Rainbow Bay, with a small swell had now turned serious. Even though he had only just started surfing, I didn’t foresee any issues, I expected that we would be sitting out the back together…
The day was beautiful, the water clean and clear. A slight offshore breeze was stroking the waves to perfection. The little three-foot peelers looked inviting, and my young fella, Tim and I couldn’t wait to get out there. The months of no surf would be washed away with an epic session We reviewed the surf and mapped the way out. Long lulls existed between constant sets of waves that marched through. We would need to time our run out and use a rip that had created a fast-flowing rip to get out the back. Due to my months of non-surfing…
Courage is indispensable. It’s a valuable commodity found in great leaders. They have the courage of their convictions; the courage to say what they see, feel and believe; the courage to canvas thoughts; the courage to be authentic; the courage to make the tough decisions for the greater good; the courage to connect with the team and clients; the courage to have standards and the courage to role model standards and behaviours. Courage is indispensable. Great leaders coach courage in their teams. They surround themselves with courageous leaders by role model and coaching courage. The environment created is of honesty,…
We live hectic lives. We’re busy. 24/7. We’re overworked, and underappreciated. It just doesn’t stop. Our jobs; career, family demands, friends and our community. The demands placed on us. The time pressures. We bounce from issue to issue, deadline to deadline, demand to demands. Our lives aren’t ours and we are not in control. We become like the ball in a pinball arcade game, as we bounce We yearn for the easy life. We’re inundated from easy-life marketers”, it’s out there, it’s available and their products are just what we need. And we feel bad because of it. We yearn…