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Motivation – Going for It!

Ever thought of becoming a magistrate, opening a soft furnishings shop, training as a counsellor, planting a show garden, writing for the local paper? All of us have dreams, yet too few pursue them. Going after the dream can feel so daunting it’s often easier to have the fantasy than to live it. Here’s my [...]

How not to be a Loser Magnet

‘Let’s face it Jo Ellen, you’re a loser magnet.’ Encouraging words from my sister a number of years ago, after another short-lived relationship bit the dust. It’s not as though the meagre procession of men in my life really were losers – they were mostly successful, functional guys. It was just that they seemed to [...]

Assertiveness – Just how nice are you?

It is important for you to define where you find your behaviour beneficial and where you find it a liability. See where you fit into the wide spectrum of our definition of nice behaviour. Below is a list of some of the things that adaptive people do. It will help you identify for yourself the [...]

Making Personal Development Personal

We’ve written before about Impact Factory’s brand of Professional Personal Development (Professional Personal Development What is it?), but we’re just going to take a little side step here to talk about the broader issue of Personal Development. This is because there’s an awful lot of talk about personal development and for some people, they’re not [...]


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