Inspiration vs Motivation – What is the Difference?

inspiration vs motivation

Inspiration makes changes to a person internally whereas motivation is more external. A question I get asked a lot as a speaker:  What is the difference between an Inspirational talk and a Motivational talk?  It’s probably not often that someone will jump onto Google and search for an Inspirational speaker rather than a Motivational speaker […]

You Are An Essential Character

Your character is essential

I wrote a little time back about being the hero of you own story and being in control of your own life and destiny. However, have you ever considered the role you play in other people’s stories?

Following Your Dreams is Never Easy

Moving Towards My Dream As I wrote about in my last blog here, I have made the decision to sell up and move to North Wales in pursuit of my dream life. In that article I shared how I was keen to get on with things and my plan for the process and dealing with […]

Handling Stress with a Change of Psyche

THE STRESS of MOVING HOME As I called my local estate agent to put my house on the market, the phrase “the two most stressful things in life are divorce and moving home” kept whirling round my head. The initial meeting turned out to be two hours long. As it was happening I could picture […]

Time for a Big Change

big change scenery

Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)] My Big Change for 2020 And here is how things have progressed since my last article: Whisper of change.. I was halfway up a mountain in the Snowdonia National Park. I was sat on a bench with the mountain behind me sheltering me from the wind, looking out over […]

The Value of Positive Regard

sentiment

Do you have positive regard for your colleagues and friends? It seems to me that today’s world is very good at tearing people down.  Everywhere I look if someone is doing well for themselves there are plenty of people looking for ways to destroy what they have.  Rather than saying ‘haven’t they done well, I […]