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!
At the risk of sounding like a self-indulgent box-head, I thought I would do this exercise for the simple reason that I get regular emails from people who (curiously) want to know more about me. I'm not that exciting but here goes nuthin....
1. I'm an only child.
2. I'm left handed. I write and play tennis (all racquet sports) left handed and play golf and cricket right handed.
3. My best friend is Vin... he's a man's, man... has a 'real' job (works on an oil rig) and wonders when I'll get one (a real job not an oil rig).
4. In 1990 I ruptured my pec (tore my chest muscle off the bone) bench pressing. It hurt.
5. When I was young-ish (and silly) I worked for three years (three nights per week) as a... err.... crowd control technician (bouncer). I got hit a lot. That may explain a few things.
6. I got head-butted and had my nose broken in the first hour of my bouncing 'career.' It also hurt. My mother doesn't know this story. Er, didn't. Dad... don't tell her.
7. I have played guitar since I was eight. I'm not as good as I think I am.
8. I once went through a three-year obsessive running phase where I ran twice a day, every day of the year.
9. My middle name is Anthony.
10. When I was twenty(ish) I established a screen printing business. It did okay. I sold it a year later.
11. I was engaged (as in, to be married) in my early twenties. The wedding didn't happen. Lucky girl. I may or may not have commitment issues.
12. I owned and rode motorbikes (on the road) for five years before my mother even knew I could ride.
13. My parents hate motorbikes and hate that I ride.
14. As an adult my weight has fluctuated between 176lbs/79kgs (runner) and 257/117kgs (bodybuilder and occasional fatty giratty).
15. I would love to do stand up comedy but I am too gutless. I love comedy and I love clever, creative comics. The thought of talking on TV to a million people doesn't bother me at all but the thought of doing stand-up in front of fifty people terrifies me.
16. I have two offices. Here (home) and at one of my gyms (Harper's). I work most days until lunch time in complete solitude and silence (at home) and then I head in to the mayhem that is the gym.
17. I was called Jumbo all through school. Even when I lost the weight.
18. I cut my own hair fortnightly.
19. I can spin a basketball on any finger on my left hand for as long as I want. I perfected this skill when I was a teenager. My parents didn't see the point. It seemed to make sense at the time.
20. When I wasn't an obsessive runner (when I was young), I was an obsessive bodybuilder... following the how-big-can-get-for-no-sensible-reason program. This also drove my mother nuts. I was annoying.
21. For my twenty-first birthday some friends (who own a poultry farm) gave me a box of fifteen dozen eggs as a present... I ate them all within two weeks.
22. I have had girlfriends called Liz, Lizzie, Libby, Linda, Lindy and Leanne. Next time I'll tell you about the M's.
23. I have cheesecake issues.
24. I don't drink alcohol ever. I have never been drunk.
25. I have never taken a recreational drug.
26. I have great vision with my right eye and crap vision with my left. So if you wanna attack me.. do it from the left.
27. I had two operations on my left eye when I was young and wore glasses with a patch on my right eye to make my left stronger (so 1970's)... it didn't work. But geeez I was sexy. Just what a fat ten year-old needs; a patch. Nice.
28. Some of my friends say I'm a perfectionist and periodically childish. What would they know? Am not, you are.
29. On a trip to Sweden I went for a run in -6 (temp) in a singlet and shorts. When I walked through the hotel foyer in my singlet (on the way out the door) the concierge told me that I would freeze. I told him I would warm up as I ran. I didn't. It hurt a lot. Clearly, I am stupid.
30. I was born in a country town called Ballarat in Victoria... I was gorgeous.
31. Until I was one.
32. I have worn a 'slave bracelet' on my right wrist for twelve years. It doesn't (can't) come off. It has no clip or catch. It has my initials and the initials of one of my best friends who died, on it. He was my first trainer, we worked together all day every day. His name was Matt. I still miss him.
33. I trained an AFL team (NFL equivalent) for three years (St. KildaFC).
34. I once owned a beauty salon (for four years). No, I didn't work there.
35. I can't drink coffee because I have an arrhythmia - the caffeine affects my heart beat.
36. I have an original KISS pinball machine in my kitchen. It works. Chicks dig it. But not as much as blokes.
37. I'm not sure... but I think I have a man-crush on Matt Damon. I'm okay with that.
38. I have a 'thing' about body odour. I don't get how stinky people can't smell their stink, when we can smell them from fifty feet.
39. I eat vegetables but I'm not a fan of fruit. Fruit Schmuit. Lions don't eat bananas.
40. When I was nineteen I lived in Western Australia (other side of the country) and worked on a construction site during the day (as a rigger-working up high), in a gym in the early evening (as an instructor) and in a club at night (getting punched by drunk blokes).
41. I have (personally) completed over 40,000 personal training sessions (since 1987). My trainers currently complete about 80,000 sessions (individual appointments) annually.
42. Most days of my life I eat oats, unprocessed bran and skim milk for breakfast. I am an excitement machine.
43. I have a business partner called Sam who owns the kid's gym (Gecko) with me. He is annoyingly good looking. The Yummy Mummies (Mommies) don't even notice me. He (essentially) runs that gym by himself. He's ace.
44. I have a junior business partner (Mikey) who owns Harper's with me. He's learning the managerial ropes and doing great. Last week I bought him his first (brand new) motorbike. Right now he's lovin' me a lot. I'm gonna milk that for a while.
45. I'm the least handy bloke in the world. Don't get stuck on an island with me. I can tell you about the meaning of life and explain gluco-neogenesis but I won't be able to open that friggin' coconut or start a fire with those two sticks.
46. I'm single. There's a shock.
47. In 1999 I went to South Africa to do some charity work with kids suffering from HIV. I went with my buddy Bryan for a Charity he founded called Door of Hope. It made me realise how pathetic and precious I was.
48. While I'm an only kid, my parents are both one of six. My dad has a twin brother. I don't know him.
49. I do about one hundred talks per year. At least three of them are good.
50. A year ago I didn't know what a blog was and then the bald man (Johnnie) came into my life. Love you Baldy.
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