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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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Welcome to Craig's site.

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, January 12, 2009
Craig's Principles for Living (Principles 7 and 8)
Hi Team, I hope you had a great weekend. I hosted a three hour radio show on SEN, ate more food than I probably should have, read a little, went for a motorbike ride up into the hills, did zero exercise, watched some sport from the comfort of my big-ass couch and saw the saddest film ever - if you're a dog person that is - Marley and Me. Let's just say there was no shortage of snot, tears and tissues at my local cinema on Saturday night. The alpha-male nearly dislocated his spleen trying to hold back the tears. I failed. There were indeed tears. An abundance of them. And snot. It's official; I'm a big girly-man. Okay, it's not the best movie I've ever seen but it did manage to take us all on something of an emotional roller coaster. I came out frickin' exhausted. Anyway, enough about my less-than exciting personal life. Today we're continuing on with our current series...

Principle 7. Get out of the way! Without doubt, I have always been my biggest barrier to success. For a time, it was a major challenge for me to learn how to get out of my own way. Yep, I have been both the problem and the solution and when I eventually stopped finding new and exciting ways to waste my time, talent, energy and potential, I actually started to achieve some pretty amazing stuff. While I have been confronted with numerous external, not-created-by-me challenges over my journey (as we all have), it's fair to say that my biggest challenges have mostly come from within; the infamous internal saboteur. A.K.A. my mind. Oh yes; too fat, too uneducated, too stupid and of course, not talented enough. And you thought you were the only one. Oh no my friends; it's a pretty large club. While I'm a little more evolved, educated, confident and aware these days, there was a time when I would shoot myself in the foot, if not the head, on a daily basis. Although I see him less and less these days, the insecure fat kid still resurfaces from time to time just to remind me how inadequate, talent-less and deluded I am. Gotta love the fat kid.

Principle 8. Humility. The moment we start to lose our humility is the moment we start to lose perspective, objectivity, teach-ability and appeal. For me, arrogance is the least desirable human trait. It leads to so many other undesirable and destructive outcomes, ranging from minor arguments and social disconnection through to intimidation, intolerance, abuse and even violence. We see this not only in personal relationships but also between various organisations, companies, religious groups and of course, countries. Take a peek at the news tonight and you'll see what I mean. Humble people don't feel the need to be right, they don't have to constantly prove themselves and they are a joy to be around. Fortunately, I have always had people like Marj around me to help me stay grounded, humble and practical.

*Note: Don't confuse humility with weakness. They are very different things. Some humble people are very strong, powerful and even aggressive (in a good way) when they need to be. And conversely, some arrogant people are actually quite weak, insecure and fearful.

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