The Meaningful Success Project
On our blog we explore what it takes to create meaningful success.
You will find posts on topics like:
– How to develop your own definition of success
– What specific behaviours have been shown to lead to career success
– New career paths that might give you more freedom and satisfaction
– How to avoid the traps of success
– How to overcome the internal blocks that get in the way of you taking important actions
– How to have holistic success – not just in your career but more broadly in your life.
How Compassion and Persistence Can Help You to Overcome Limiting Self Beliefs
Do you have a voice inside your head that pops up at the most unhelpful moment and says, ‘You can’t…’,‘You are not good enough’, ‘You always…’ or ‘You never…’? Most of us do. Unfortunately, sometimes we let this voice take charge. It might be about playing small at...
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Traps to Avoid On the Path to Success – Or Why You Can’t Have it All
Pursuing success can be risky. There are many traps along the way. Something as simple as how we define success, can trap us. It is so easy to fall into the belief that you are only successful if you ‘have it all’. The world implies that, if you are...
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Make Good Art – And Other Suggestions for Career Success
In this delightful commencement speech, Neil Gaiman suggests a simple approach to career success: 'Do good work, be likeable and deliver on time.' This is rock solid advice! Gaiman also explains that his success was not the result of a well thought out career plan:...
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What If Standard Career Advice Is Wrong?
If you want to have career success, then you need to have long term career goals, don't you? Standard advice says that if you want career success, then you need to decide where you want to be in your career in 10 years time and work out what you need to do in order to...
read moreFinding Your Passion By Inhaling Meaninglessness – an interview with Steve Hayes
Steve Hayes is a Professor in The Department of Psychology at The University of Reno, Nevada. Steve has been central to some important and ground breaking developments in psychology. In this interview we asked him some questions about success and passion. His...
read moreWhy It Is Getting Harder and Harder to Find Meaningful Success?
The World of Work is Changing - There Isn’t A Clear Path Anymore to Well Paid Meaningful Work “There are no good jobs anymore, just great ones and boring, wearing soul destroying ones” - Larry Smith TED talk Why You Will Fail To Have a Great Career. The world of work...
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Todd Kashdan
Todd Kashdan is a Professor at George Mason University. He is also the author of a number of books including 'Curious' which Arianna Huffington said is 'One of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world'. He recently delivered...
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Danielle Duell, CEO of The Spicers Group
The Importance of Hard Work The research on success suggests that people who achieve career success have a significant period in their lives when they work very hard. Despite what you may read elsewhere, if you want to achieve success with a degree of integrity...
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Tristan White, CEO of The Physio Co.
We travelled to Melbourne to interview Tristan White. Tristan is an entrepreneur. He is CEO of The Physio Co, an organisation that provides physio services to people living in aged care facilities. According to BRW magazine, The Physio Co is the 8th best place...
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Kym Warner, CFO of the Coffee Club
The Coffee Club is Australia’s largest home grown café group with over 270 stores across Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, New Caledonia and China, serving more than 40 million cups of coffee every year and employing more than 6,000 staff. Kym...
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