Truth Bomb Tuesday: We were actively designed to be irrational about threats like this. I was trading messages with a friend of mine. She lives in the hills outside Byron Bay. They had some epic floods earlier in the year, and last week they got quite a bit of rain. Around 2 a.m on Friday […]
T-Bomb: How to make happiness stay
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Happiness is hard to find and even harder to hold. Have a guess. How much happiness do you think you can handle at time? 3 hours? 8 hours? 12 hours? Nup. Scientists have measured it. Want to know how much happiness the average person can handle? 4 seconds. That’s it. Maybe if […]
T-Bomb: Do you have one of ‘the three wealth curses’?
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Don’t have what it takes? That might be a blessing. When I first started out on my journey as a property investor, I was a bit bitter about how far back in the pack I was starting. I was a single mum, running a struggling business. I had barely two-cents to rub […]
T-Bomb: Why I don’t want to be remembered
Truth Bomb Tuesday: If your motivation is a eulogy, you’ll never get far. “After you die, how do you want to be remembered?” I was filling out some interview questions for a glossy magazine a while ago. They were doing a special on ‘Women in Business’ and they were giving me a run. The questions […]
T-Bomb: Why do we fear what we love?
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Are we hard-wired to fear the things we love? Humans are pretty strange creatures. We are a mess of contradictions and competing drives. How we get anything done amazes me. And the more I work with people (and I mean really work with people – getting past spreadsheets and feasibility studies into […]
T-Bomb: The 100 coffees theory of emotions
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Emotions aren’t scary. Dosages are scary. I was talking to a friend recently, an older friend, who had just lost her husband. And she was saying something like she just can’t face the grief. The grief is too much. And it got me thinking, it’s not the grief that’s too much, it’s […]
T-Bomb: Why investors shouldn’t trust intuition
Truth Bomb Tuesday: I use my intuition. You shouldn’t. “Listen Dymphna, I’ve just got a good feeling about it.” “No you don’t. You just think it looks cute.” We were looking a potential investment for Jenny. To me, the numbers weren’t stacking up. It was an older house, and it looked like it needed a […]
T-Bomb: too generous for our own good?
Truth Bomb Tuesday: To avoid energy vampires, we need discipline. Most times, we choose the wrong discomfort. I think this is probably true generally. When we make a bad choice in life, it’s rarely because we chose the painful option over the pain free option. Most times it’s because we choose the wrong discomfort. We […]
T-Bomb: How to get yourself going
Truth Bomb Tuesday: Sometimes the first step is the hardest There’s a quote I’ve seen attributed to popular horror writer Stephen King: “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just have to go to work.” While this might be a little rich for someone who farms out the actual writing of his novels to […]
T-Bomb: Why your first step is always a power move
Truth Bomb Tuesday: How to make sure your goals aren’t empty dreams. Help us out here. I’m road testing a new motto. What do you think? “Invite tomorrow, empower today.” Catchy? Can you see on it on a motivational poster with some dolphins and stuff? I’m trying to catch a really important balancing act that’s […]