Jacqui is currently Living Life Her Way, travelling around the world with her daughter.
"Life's not meant to be one long coping strategy - it can be as fantastic as you choose to make it. Whether it's in business or your personal life, I believe the greatest rewards come when you decide to be true to yourself, and to really live your life, your way.."
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“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 11th, 2010
Lynette “Polly” McFadden – Harcourts Real Estate
Lynette, known as Polly to her friends, is a vibrant Maori woman successfully operating several Harcourts real estate offices in the Christchurch area. A working class background hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of Christchurch’s hottest businesswomen. Not content with her own success, she shares her positive energy with all around her, inspiring others to succeed and grow into whatever they wish to become.
February 3rd, 2010
Louise Rutten -Inkspot Digital Ltd
Louise is the driving force behind Inkspot Digital Ltd – an Auckland based IT / Animation / Entertainment company leading the world in computer animation. This small youthful company works alongside big players such as Microsoft and shows the world what a couple of Kiwi’s can achieve when the put their minds to it. For Louise, the secrets to success don’t lie behind a university degree or loads of investment capital – success comes from lots of hard work, personality, and undying belief in your idea.
January 20th, 2010
Jane Lucas – BJ’s Health & Fitness Centres Ltd
Jane started her career as a farmer’s wife teaching a few local ladies aerobics in the country. Thirteen years later she’s recognised as a successful businesswoman, owning and operating three health & fitness centres in the Nelson / Marlborough region.
January 12th, 2010
Mary Murray – Paradisos Cafe
Mary was a fulltime mother and housewife for all 24 years of her married life until her husband announced he was having an affair. Left with nothing when he left, with no experience or business acumen whatsoever, Mary took on the cafe her husband had been in the process of starting, complete with thousands of dollars worth of debts, and made a go of it.
December 9th, 2009
Are you the sort of person who sets the same New Year’s resolutions year after year and never actually makes them happen? Maybe you set yourself goals with the best intentions but run out of enthusiasm halfway, or maybe you never even manage to get started?
One of the big secrets to successful goal setting is to set goals that you want to achieve. That might sound like its too easy, but who said it had to be difficult? Sure achieving your goals will require some effort from you, but you’re much more likely to commit to making that effort if you are working towards something that you really want for yourself. So that means sorting out the ‘want to’ goals from the ‘should” goals.
December 9th, 2009
This project started back in 1999 through my own frustrations as a newly self-employed writer. After completing a journalism course by correspondence I’d decided I didn’t want to go and work for a newspaper or a magazine - I wanted to freelance. This seemed easy enough and I was sure it was the answer to my dreams of freedom. I started writing and soon I had a few regular contracts and I was surviving, but only just. The hardest part was not the writing but the business side of it - knowing what to charge for my work, getting agreements from people, sorting out taxes and accounting procedures. I bluffed my way through blindly for months not wanting to ask anybody for help for fear of confirming to them that I really didnít know what I was doing!
December 8th, 2009
I was reminded the other day of a story I was told a few years ago. It was about a speaker who pulled a crisp, fresh $100 note out of his pocket and offered it to his audience. “who would like this $100 note?” he asked. Of course nearly everyone was keen to accept it with hands waving madly in the air. “What about this $100 note?” he asked offering a more worn, dirtier looking note, instead. Still the same people responded, happy to accept the money. Then he took the worn, dirty note, screwed it up in a ball and stood on it, squashing it into the ground. When he picked it up, the $100 was barely recognisable but still he offered it to the crowd and still he was met with the same enthusiastic response. No matter what he did to that piece of paper, it still held it’s same true value, it was still worth $100.
November 8th, 2009
Are you one of those people that has several projects on the go and wonders why none of them are coming to fruition very quickly? Maybe you’re spreading your focus too thinly. Multi tasking can be helpful in some situations but it can also be counter-productive.
November 8th, 2009
If you want to be successful, you have to take more risks. By this I don’t mean being reckless, I simply mean that in order for you to truly succeed you have to risk failure.
This is one of the big differences between people who are successful and those that aren’t. Successful people dare to win, while not being afraid to fail. Most people are terrified of failure so don’t step out of their comfort zones to take risks, and therefore never really dare to succeed. The true potential of most people is severely limited by their fear of failure.
