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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!
Today's post is not so much a personal development 'lesson' as it is a discussion and exploration into how blokes and chicks are wired; a look at something which interests me. As always, I don't have all the answers but I do have plenty of questions and thoughts. Being as I'm not a female (mostly), I may be completely off track... so feel free to enlighten me girls.
As a scientist, personal development bloke and fascinated observer of people, I love to see what people do (and don't do) and then try to figure why they do (or don't do) whatever it is that they're doing. Or not doing. As the case may be. Or not be. If you know what I mean. Hey, don't you complain... I'm confused and I'm writing it!
Anyway, there's two interesting observations I've made lately.
Observation 1 In most of my open-to-the-public workshops (as opposed to my corporate gigs) the vast majority of my audience is typically women. The weekend just past we ran our Melbourne RYL program (photos up soon) and over eighty percent of the attendees were of the more attractive and sweeter smelling gender. A couple of weeks ago I gave an open-to-the-public keynote presentation (health, fitness, lifestyle, psychology stuff) in a large fitness centre here in Melbourne and nearly ninety percent(!) of the audience were women. These kinds of percentages are pretty common for my presentations. Now, if I was a young, good-looking, stud-muffin with a six-pack and a severe case of Brad-Pitt-itis that might give us some insight into the skewed numbers, but clearly I'm not, and clearly, people are coming along for the information, the motivation and the education. Even when I do a presentation where many of the people in the audience don't really know who I am, we still have a much higher percentage of women book in and attend.
Observation 2 The vast majority of commentors on this site are women. While it varies a little from article to article, the ratio of female to male contributors is quite amazing. Recently I took a stroll through some of my past posts and the percentage of female commentors is regularly up around the ninety percent mark.
So the obvious question is, "why does this happen and what does it tell us?"
You're right; that's actually two questions.
Well, I'm not really sure but I'll throw around a few possibilities...
1. All the men are out hunting. 2. Only a very small percentage of men can read and write. 3. What I write or speak about isn't applicable to the males of the species. 4. I'm not manly enough to connect with the blokes. 5. Women need more help than men. 6. I don't write enough articles about monster trucks or cage fighting.
Naaah, probably not.
Perhaps...
1. A higher percentage of blokes (higher than ten percent that is) actually read my stuff but they are not as comfortable to comment as the ladies. 2. Growing up, blokes are not 'trained' to talk about relationships, feelings, emotions, fears, weaknesses, problems.. etc. 3. Perhaps some guys consider having a need for 'personal development' to be a sign of weakness (which would make me... pathetic). 4. Blokes don't have the same level of emotional intelligence or awareness as the girls. Or maybe they just don't show it.
Or possibly...
1. Women are simply more aware and more in touch with their emotional selves. 2. Women are more prepared to admit (and deal with) flaws, weaknesses and destructive habits and behaviours. 3. Women are more proactive (about creating positive change) while blokes are more reactive - they wait for the catastrophe to happen and then slip into their Superman outfit. 4. One of my (female) staff suggested that women 'search' more because overall they're not as happy as men. Don't yell at me - a woman told me that.
Maybe...
1. The way I communicate resonates more with women. 2. Perhaps the site needs less photos of sunsets and more images of blokes and their power tools. 3. Women just like talking.
A final thought...
Maybe some of us alpha-male-warriors need to climb down from the security of our monster trucks and go and see Sex and the City tonight.
Or perhaps give another bloke a hug.
Help a confused male out; let me know your thoughts on this perplexing issue.
I'm off to hunt.
Er, I mean do Yoga.
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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.
