About This Site. This site is the website of motivational speaker Craig
Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop
information, inspiration, education and motivation
station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally
free resource for anyone who is serious about moving
from mediocre to amazing in any area of their
personal or professional life. With hundreds of
articles covering a wide range of subject matter,
great interviews with cool people and inspirational
video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to
keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!!
Enjoy.
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Life Coach
Melbourne - Craig Harper
If
you are interested in maximizing your potential,
stepping out of that 'holding pattern' and being
privately coached by Craig click here.
Business Coach Melbourne -
Craig Harper
If you're a personal trainer, gym owner or studio owner
who is interested in growing your business and/or your
career, then mentoring with Craig could be a valuable
part of your overall success strategy and professional
development journey.
Biological Age Testing
- Craig Harper
In a recent test, Jan Frazer, who has a chronological age (the
number of years she's been on the planet) of 67 did a biological
age test which showed she has the body of a 37 year old female.
Pretty Impressive! How old is your body! Find out here.
Nutrition Melbourne -
Craig Harper
Many nutritional
experts are confusing people with jargon and pseudo-science.
Craig's HPN Service provides remote access to Craig's Director
of Nutrition to cut through the dietary confusion and
contradiction.
Public Speaking Melbourne - Craig Harper If you've ever
thought about becoming a professional speaker or
improving your public speaking then you can be privately
coached here.
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life-long change is more about the
dieter, than the actual diet. This book is perfect for people who have a
history of 'almost' getting in shape.
DVD
or CD - Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Craig Harper is a leading
motivational speaker
and educator. He is a highly
sought-after corporate coach and is considered to be
a leader and pioneer in the areas of personal and
professional development. Working with hundreds of
teams, companies and a wide variety of organisations
on numerous continents over the last twenty years
has given Craig a unique insight into, and
understanding of, human performance and all its
variables. Craig has an ability to educate, inspire,
challenge and make people laugh all at the same
time!
By the time you Crazy Kids read this I will be in sunny Fiji doing a gig for a company called Financial Lifestyle Solutions. Sure it's a tough assignment, but hey, someone's gotta do it. Yep, the life of a professional speaker is not an easy one. Oh, the pressure. It's a good thing I'm resilient. An international trip to a tropical island to give a forty five minute presentation; now that's a job. Anyway, I'll be thinking of you all while I am sitting by the pool working my ass off and pushing myself to the limit.
On with today's post....
Ever noticed how deep, philosophical, honest and real we get when we're faced with disaster, tragedy and/or catastrophe? How all of a sudden we seem to have absolute clarity and certainty about what's important and what's not? What needs to be done and what needs to be said? Where once we struggled to find the words, now the words flow? Where once we struggled to hug or touch, now we can't let go?
The few times in my life when I have been around tragedy have taught me great lessons. Lessons about what matters the most. Lessons about human spirit, courage and love. Lessons about honesty, humility and selflessness. And amazing, life-changing lessons about genuine communication. People are never more honest, open, direct or real than when they are dying, or someone close to them is dying. All the ego, issues, barriers and bullshit disappears.
All that's left is love.
What a pity so many of us wait for so long to tell certain people what they mean to us. Watching one of my best friends die taught me one of my most significant life lessons. That's irony isn't it? All of a sudden the thirty year-old alpha-male (me) with all the issues didn't care what he looked like or sounded like. My stupid ego took a hike. Finally. As I sat next to my dying friend who was on life-support, I had an incredible and instant awareness of what was important and what wasn't. What mattered. I hugged him, kissed his forehead, watched him, held his arm, talked to him and cried like a baby with his family. And for maybe the first time, I totally didn't care what anyone thought about my behaviour or what I looked like. Mr. Self-Control let go and it was liberating and enlightening. Necessary even.
Letting go...
As a younger man, the experience taught me that I had invested too much time, effort and energy into things which ultimately, really didn't matter to me; the superficial, the temporary and the pursuit of the material. Somehow, I had made un-important things important. Instead of being largely about the 'physical' (I did own a gym remember), I began to work consciously at developing the psychological, the emotional and the spiritual me. To learn more about myself. I started to think and communicate differently. I stopped worrying about, and focusing on, the small stuff. It changed me forever. I started to like me more. Of course it's not up to me to define what should and shouldn't be important for anyone other than me, but sometimes I think it's a good idea for us all to take stock of our lives to see whether or not we live a life which is reflective of our core values. When questioned about their core values (what's most important to them), most people will talk about family, friends and health as being absolutely integral to happiness and fulfillment in the long term, but when we take an honest look at how many of those same people live their lives, there appears to be a big gap between their core values and how they actually live.
If a television crew followed you around for six months and filmed your life without you knowing it, what would we 'viewers' of your life conclude was really important to you?
So...
What is important to you? Who is important to you? When did you last tell them? What are you gonna do about it?
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DVD
- Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. (Also
available on CD).
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life long change is more about the
dieter than the actual diet.
Food for thought
- Craig Harper
In this book, Craig Harper
walks the reader through his 21 rules to Permanent Weight Loss.
So you've decided you want to get in shape (again)
- Craig Harper
Imagine a pocket-sized fitness book that takes just twenty minutes to
read. Craig Harper addresses the REAL getting-in-shape issues.
