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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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Craig Harper is Australia's leading motivational speaker and educator (according to Google Australia). 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!

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Sunday, December 24, 2006
Tis the Season to be Grumpy
Tis the season to be jolly.... but someone forgot to tell the idiot that I watched abuse a lady and her two kids for not walking fast enough on a pedestrian crossing today...

The kids were about two and four, and mum was laden with shopping.

Poor guy; having to wait an extra two seconds while the selfish, thoughtless woman ambled across the street, rug-rats in tow.

Ho, ho, ho.

If I wasn't so balanced and sensible, I would have punched him in the head.

Damn all those personal development books and workshops.
I was so much more fun when I was irresponsible and preoccupied with my biceps.

Gotta grow up some time, I guess.

So it's December 24, and to me, it feels like everyone is staggering towards Christmas like exhausted runners on the home straight of their first marathon. Sometimes I think we talk ourselves into exhaustion; it's like we mentally and emotionally switch off and collectively hit the wall somewhere around mid December.
We finish the year on auto pilot, fall over the finish line and then stuff ourselves with turkey.
It's a great spectacle.

Christmas is an interesting time for us students of human nature.
I dig it.

People get a little freaky.
Emotions go crazy.
Some get philosophical and deep.
Some get sad or angry.
Or both.
Some come to amazing realisations.
And make resolutions which are rarely followed through on.
Some create long to-do lists.
And then lose them.
Some eat until they are sick.
And some drink their own body-weight in beer.
Or both.

And they say animals are dumb.
We humans are the smartest... and the dumbest species.

I don't know if it's just my personal experience, but people seem to be getting grumpier, ruder, and more impatient. Christmas cheer has made way for Christmas sneer, and the fat bloke in the red suit doesn't seem to represent what he once did.

For me Christmas is a time to kick back, reflect, assess the year that was, be thankful for what I have, hang out with friends and laugh.

And eat baked cheesecake.

What about you?
Why will next year be better, different, more fulfilling and rewarding?
It's good to set goals and to plan.
It's better to follow through.
It's good to identify what needs to change.
It's better to change it.
It's good to live, laugh, learn and love... and give the anti-social behaviour a miss.

At the end of every year we talk about how next year will be different, amazing, incredible.
Imagine if this year, we all actually did it rather than just talked about it.

I know that about fifty percent of the visitors to my site are from outside of Australia (I am in Melbourne) so I am interested to hear from my international readers (and you Aussies, of course) about the Christmas Grumpiness Syndrome. Let me know your thoughts and where you are from... is it just an Australian thing... or is it global?

Just hit the comments link at the bottom.

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