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!
Hello Groovers... a little house-keeping before we get under way with today's post.
1. As you may have noticed, we have had a strong and positive (almost overwhelming) response to our Accountability Partner concept (see yesterday's post). As we speak (okay, as I write), the Bald Man is doing his best to figure out the technical and logistical stuff to be able to make this idea a working reality. Clearly, I'm the creative and he's the tech-head brainiac. I have trouble using a microwave oven, so I'm gonna be no help to him at all. If you have experience, knowledge and/or skills that might be of value to Baldy, drop him an email via the 'email Craig' menu option thingy. We should have it all figured out within the next few days and hopefully the project will be operational within a week or so.
2. After a couple of false starts, we have decided to proceed with our Renovate Your Life program mid 2008 - date to be announced in the next week. The program will be facilitated by Mr Bossy Pants (me) and will run on a Sunday from my Brighton Centre here in Melbourne. It will be a big day, starting at 8.30 and wrapping up at about 6.00 ish. There's a slim chance that Bobby Cappuccio might be out from the States (only one of the best speakers on the planet) to share the stage with me (I'm currently twisting his arm) so stay tuned... Either way it will be an awesome day. If you would like to register your interest early, simply email us.
3. Johnnie often gets requests from visitors to our site looking to purchase a DVD of one of my presentations. Well, I just recently completed a corporate gig which happened to be filmed and the DVD will be available for purchase in the next few weeks. It will be relatively affordable; probably about $25.00 (in Aust.) or $30.00 (overseas) including postage. It's a sixty(ish) minute presentation about 'change' with a focus on the body stuff - it's called Renovate Your Body. And of course, I'm hilarious and the presentation is amazing.
Okay, on with today's post: So Educated but so Stupid.
If the Personal Development movement and it's ever-expanding range of offerings (books, programs, seminars, CD's, Gurus) was in fact proving to be an effective resource in helping humanity pull itself out of it's collective crap, then globally we should be seeing things improving by the day. After all, we've got more of the Fix-Your-Life stuff available right now than we've had at any time in our history. You and I live in the self-help age and the information-overload age but despite being so enlightened and informed as a species, it seems that we're as stupid, lazy, irresponsible and destructive as we've ever been. Maybe even more so.
In case you haven't been told, as a group numbering about six billion or so, we're not really travelling that well. We're either fat or starving, we're addicted to drugs, we spend more than we earn, we kill each other for a cause, we mutilate our healthy bodies with cosmetic surgery because we're obsessed with our appearance, we're constantly in therapy, we're angry at the world, we medicate with alcohol, we share the most intimate physical experience with strangers and we continue our destructive behaviours despite the fact that we know better.
And then there's our planet; it's not really having a good time either. However, if we can find a way to overlook the rapidly declining state of our forests, oceans, arctic regions and air quality, then there really are no problems. Er... that is as long as we don't think too much about those numerous species of animals that become extinct each year. Who cares; there's still a whole bunch left.
You may or may not have noticed, but right here on the big blue ball we have a few serious problems. There's the war thing of course; we keep killing each other (always for a good cause though). Then there's the globalobesity thing - fortunately it's not our fault; it's all those horrible fast food companies and their clever marketing people. And at the other end of the scale there's the starvingpeople thing in those countries with weird names - you may have seen the World Vision advertisements on the TV. We also have the personal debt thing - most of us are getting further into debt every day; because of those seductive advertisers who prey on our feeble minds of course - but at least we have our gigantic plasma screens in each room of the house to ease the pain. Apparently in some countries, the people don't have any money at all - who'da thought? Oh well, we don't live there so it's not really a problem for us. And then there's that other small challenge that we've been having for a few (thousand) years. You know, the religion one. Apparently we're right and they're wrong. Or is it the other way around? Not sure. Anyway, it's a good thing that the various religions around the globe are all about love, forgiveness, tolerance and enlightenment - otherwise we could end up with some kinda religious war on our hands. As if that would happen.
Here's an idea... what if from now on, instead of being angry at the world, constantly finding fault in others, blaming my parents for ruining my life, hating people who don't believe what I do, destroying my body with food and drugs, putting my head in the sand and doing my best to make others look or feel bad... what if I change what I can - me. Perhaps I'll start to put those five hundred self-help books that I've read to some use. Maybe I've read enough for the moment. Maybe I should apply what I know and work hard at making me a better human being.
Imagine if we all did that. We might change the world.
There's a thought.
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