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10 tips to getting the best out of your books


also posted in Articles, Jane's Blog

(This is the article in this week’s Spirit of RichThinking newsletter)

You will already probably know the importance of reading books as part of your personal and business development journey. Many of the business ‘gurus’ tell us we should be reading one book a week at least if we want to be successful. This is either daunting or exciting depending on where you are coming from, or whether you have learnt speed reading or not. But how do you actually read your books, and how might this process in itself affect your success? Here’s my top ten pointers to successful learning from books, discovered over the years:

1. Have more than one on the go, on different topics, so you can pick up whichever (more...)

The Power of Inspiration, Imagination and Action


also posted in Articles

Recently I was interviewed by Paul Harvey of www.market-that.com on the subject of How to Manage in Troubled Times. I spent an enjoyable hour basically sharing with people how I manage my own worries and concerns, what I’ve learnt to do that works, and what doesn’t work, and inviting people to try some of the tools out for themselves.

One of the things I use is the power of my imagination. Commonly known as visualising, don’t be put off by this term if you are not someone who thinks in images. I do think in pictures, but my husband doesn’t, so I am well versed in the challenges of people who don’t ‘see’ things in their mind’s eye, but rather hear, or feel, or even just (more...)

Putting thinking rich into practice — again!


also posted in Jane's Blog

Ah, the irony!

After a very enjoyable interview last Thursday evening with Paul Harvey of www.market-that.com, entitled How to Manage in Troubled Times, I came off the phone feeling great, very buoyant, and pleased with how it had gone. So far so good. Then in the wee hours of the morning, 2.30am to be precise I was awake. I didn’t think I was worrying, but something had certainly woken me, so I was immediately given the great opportunity to reflect on what I had shared in the call about my Middle of the Night Survival Kit (a list of what to to when you wake up worrying in the night).

Yes, I got to walk my talk just a few hours after I had been sharing my (more...)

How not to operate your blog


also posted in Jane's Blog

I’m shocked! I just saw the last date that I blogged here was nearly two weeks ago. Amazing how time passes.

This is not the way to blog, I do know that. But because I haven’t yet set up a system, let alone operate one, to remind myself to blog regularly, of course it doesn’t happen, and that’s when time seems to slip away.

So lesson one in blogging — decide why you’re blogging and how often you want to do it. There’s lots more souls out there who know more about this than me, but even just from a common sense point of view, if you want to keep in touch with people visiting your site, and keep them up to date, then a blog is (more...)

How valuable is your time? Calculating your hourly rate


How valuable are you? Well of course, you’re unique, and therefore priceless, that goes without saying. Whether you believe this or not is another matter, but that’s not what this article is about. Instead this article is about what your hourly rate really is – and it’s not the one you charge to clients!

To find out how valuable you are, get your calculator and work out the following:

  1. Think about how much money you want to make over the next year.
  2. Calculate how many weeks you want to work to earn that money.
  3. Calculate how many hours in a week you want to work
  4. Multiply the no. of weeks by the no. hrs per week you’ll be working
  5. Divide the total no. of hrs you’ll be working in the year into the amount you (more...)
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