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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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Monday, November 10, 2008
A Report From the Tropics
Sunday November 9, 9:10am

No real lesson today, just a little update from the top bit of the best country in the world.

So here I am in Paradise. Well a tropical, somewhat humid version of Paradise anyway. I'm in Port Douglas to speak at a conference. I'm staying here at the Sheraton Mirage and I gotta say, I've had tougher gigs. Like when I used to get punched in the head for twelve bucks an hour as a crowd control technician in the 80's. And then drive home with blood on my shirt. Aaaah, so many lessons. And bruises.

I'm not From Around Here... Can You Tell?

When I left Melbourne yesterday morning it was about 11C (50F) with no humidity (to speak of) and I when I arrived here last night it was 35C (nearly 100F) and about four thousand percent humidity. Pretty much. Being the mental giant that I am, I went straight to the gym, started heaving some weights (as alpha males do) and nearly spontaneously combusted. I'm not sure, but I think my fluorescent white skin, my profuse sweating and my inability to cope with the heat may have alerted the locals to my "I'm not from around here" status. Somehow I don't think I'll adapt to the heat in the course of my twenty four hour stay.

Heat Exhaustion and Hypothermia... in the Same Room!

When I stay in the tropics I always struggle to get the air-conditioning and the fan things right in my hotel room at night time. I'm either swimming in my own body fluids or giving myself hypothermia through air-conditioner mis-management. Last night I alternated between back-stroking in sweat and scraping the frost off my nose. I clearly need to do some kind of air-conditioning workshop. I'm hot, I'm cold. I'm up, I'm down. Blankets on, blankets off. Tossing, turning. TV on, TV off. Any advice?

The All-You-Can-Eat-Breakfast...

I just got back from doing a sound check (they do that with big auditoriums) and eating my breakfast. I am on stage at 10:40 and presenting to about three hundred people. The sound check wasn't particularly eventful but I must say the 'all-you-can-eat-breakfast' at a holiday resort is always guaranteed to be an entertaining, interesting and at times, logic-defying spectacle for the casual observer. I wrote an article the other day about focus, well if you want to see real focus, come to a place like this and watch some people at the all-you-can-eat buffet. They are motivated, focused and committed to eating. At any cost. It actually makes me sad to see people destroying their health with gluttony. I know they don't want my advice or help but part of me wants to rip those muffins and croissants out of their fat little fingers and shake them. I watched a huge lady this morning load up her plate with a (big) cooked breakfast three times. She didn't fit on her chair and without trying to be rude, there was more of her ass off the chair, than on. Much more. Okay maybe it was a little rude. And a lot honest. She would have weighed 150kg (330lbs), been five foot three or four and about thirty five years old. I hope she makes forty.

The Happiness Scale

I've made another interesting observation since I've been here; on the happiness scale, a lot of people seem to hover somewhere between mildly content and completely miserable. Well, their faces seem to anyway. Now, I know what you're thinking, "how can they be miserable; they're in paradise." Well, I agree with you but listen to my experience...

Some Field Research

To get anywhere here, you need to do quite a bit of walking because it's a massive resort. So I've been walking all over the place. Walking to breakfast this morning I walked past at least twenty people going in the opposite direction. Being as it was only them and I on that part of the track, I would try to make eye contact (as I do), smile at them and say "good morning". Person after person avoided eye contact, looked at the ground and didn't acknowledge the needy only-child at all. In the course of my fifteen minute walk to breakfast (I went the long way), one person looked at me and said good morning. He was a friendly old guy. I love friendly old guys. Not to be confused with creepy, annoying old guys. As I looked at these people, the majority just didn't seem very happy. Not a smile to be seen. I wondered if I was imagining it, so I decided to conduct an impromptu study; a little field research in the tropics.

So I did two trials...

Trial One: In the first trial I walked past thirty people (not a massive sample I know), looked at them and smiled if they happened to make eye contact with me. Of the thirty subjects, twenty three made no eye contact with me at all (keep in mind that we were walking towards each other on a foot path), and of the seven who did make eye contact, three returned a smile and one of the three said hello. Bonus! Four (of the seven) actually looked away when I smiled at them. That may say something about me! Of course there are many variables and factors which can influence results but it was an interesting observation and outcome nonetheless. Perhaps shyness plays a role. Interpret the results as you will. If for example, I was an attractive female researcher instead of.... well, me... perhaps the results may been different. Or not.

Trial Two: For the second trial, I went on the attack. Again, my sample size was thirty. I said good morning to every person I passed, even the ones who didn't look at me and clearly weren't up for a chat. I was annoyingly friendly. Here are my results:

* Six didn't look at me or respond at all; they completely ignored me (even though I spoke to them).

* Of the twenty four who did respond, only four smiled back at me (twenty six non-smilers).

* About half (not exactly sure, it was research on the run) of those who did reply, didn't seem particularly happy to be spoken to.

I could interpret this data and come up with some philosophical theory on the matter but why don't you tell me what you think. Can you imagine being in paradise and not being happy? Maybe happiness is not about our external environment but our internal one? Hmmm. Perhaps it's possible to be in Paradise and hell at the same time? It would seem that misery is portable; some people take it everywhere with them. Oops, time to go. I have a crowd to address.

November 9, 2:08pm

Wow, I cut that a little fine. I lost track of time (hello, my name is Craig and I'm a blogoholic) and got to where I needed to be with about ten minutes to spare. When you fly interstate to give a presentation it's always good to actually turn up for it. Strangely, the conference organisers seem happier when I show! Something about value for money...

My gig went well, they were a great crowd, nobody threw rotten fruit and we had lots of fun. I'm sure I offended a few. Maybe ten. Got some very nice feedback and had a great lunch with some of the conference attendees. The funny thing about eating lunch with three hundred people after you've just hammered them for seventy five minutes about diet, exercise, lifestyle and attitude is that EVERYONE comes to see what the freak is eating for lunch. Clearly they don't know about my cheesecake issues.

Anyway, I need to get out of this hotel room, stretch my legs, get off this computer, enjoy a little sun and then start the epic journey home to the thriving metropolis of Melbourne. Tell me your thoughts on my 'research'. How do you interpret the results? See you tomorrow.

Enjoy your Monday x

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