Category: Words of Wisdom

“The best piece of advice anyone ever gave to me is actually a quote from Stephen Hunt.
If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much space.

In short, if you’re not pursuing your dreams, striving to achieve and making the most of every day, then really you’re not utilising the incredible gift you’ve been given. Life is a gift, so don’t waste it.” – Charli Moore, www.wanderlusters.co.uk

What things have you achieved that forced you to ‘live on the edge’?

“My background is Italian and my pearl of wisdom comes from my mum. Since I was a little child I remember she used to say to me “Impara l’arte e mettila da parte” that means “Learn a trade and it will stand you in good stead”. Keep on learning as you don’t know when something can become useful and maybe change your life.” – Stefania Pallotta, www.theorganictshirt.com.au

What trades have you learnt to see you through life?

Have you stuck to one trade, or diversified and learnt more than one?

“My best advice for both personal and business success is: Don’t run from your problems/fears dance with them. To dance well, learn effective negotiation and communication skills, this builds self esteem, relationships and success.” – Jennifer McDonell, www.mentoronline.com.au

What fears and problems have you learned to ‘dance’ with in your life?

“I had a boss who always told me ‘it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission’ so basically just go do it!” – Suzanne Geraghty, www.revolutionaustralia.com

Have any of your bosses ever given you some great words of wisdom?

“The true purpose of a goal is who you become as a person in pursuing the goal.
You can either have a job or add value to the world.
Your passion is like breathing – that’s how easy it feels.” – Rita Joyan, www.unboxyourgift.com

What’s your passion?

How can you use your passion to add value to the world?

Throughout the course of life, there’s a few pieces of advice that we collect along the way that stick with us. Words of Wisdom is our latest blog series that shares some of these ‘pearls of wisdom’ from a variety of contributors. We hope these gems will inspire and motivate you to be the very best you can and get the most out of your life journey…

“A business mentor said to me: “Whatever you do, do it with love”. He meant that, even when I was feeling pretty frustrated with a client, I had to press reset and say to myself “do it with love” and then talk to the client.

If I think of that person as someone I “love” then I’m much nicer to them and they respond more positively. Try it on your most frustrating clients.

Recently, one of our (much loved) clients had made lots of changes, asked for extra things, contradicted themselves and then started again. We had a quick meeting to discuss how to resolve the issue.

Everyone was voicing their frustration and we said “do it with love”. We then thought about WHY the client was behaving as they were. Answer: Our client lacks support in their role, they are given impossible deadlines, the person who manages them isn’t always the most logical and they have pretty tight time-frames to find solutions themselves so they don’t always pay attention to detail.

By thinking “lovingly” about our client, reflecting on their situation and trying to think about things from their perspective we were able to come up with a work around for the issue at hand and we all went away thinking sympathetically about our client.” – Maureen Shelley, Chief Operating Officer, The Copy Collective, www.thecopycollective.com

What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?

How has this advice influenced your life or career for the better?