Climbing the walls: when you’re tired of your own rubbish
I love rock-climbing – throwing yourself at a wall and shimming up, crab style, towards the ceiling. Climbing is great for entrepreneurs, especially if you’re over your stories and tired of your own rubbish. Getting over the first hurdle The first hurdle to climbing...
Into the flow: overcoming procrastination
By Guest blogger, Nicola Rankin. A few months ago I had a really unproductive week (yes, a whole week). At first I thought the problem was the work was really hard and I wasn’t feeling well. But the real problem was procrastination. It was a tough week. But my...
Failures and final defeats: Problogger 2016 wrap-up
Australians love plumbing the depths of self-deprecation. Concurrently, we have a macho culture of “getting on with it”, being proudly independent and hiding any weakness. It’s an uneasy marriage, and when applied to self-employment, it often results in depression,...
Behind the scenes of five years of teaching face-to-face courses
Five years ago, I ran my first face-to-face course on digital marketing in late summer in Sydney. It was out the back of a divey café in inner city Newtown and it was a ridiculously hot day, even for summer. I remember the heat vividly. I tried to cool the room down...
Brook McCarthy is a writer, speaker, trainer and business coach with 17 years’ experience in communications. Brook enables organisations to magnify their impact online. When you build your brand, grow your reputation and enhance your credibility, you can do your best work. Brook is located in Sydney, Australia when she’s not off somewhere, galavanting around.
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