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!
The question is not "does shit happen?", but rather, "what do we do about it?"
Of course shit happens; it's part of the human experience. It's even written on T-shirts, so it must be true! And yes, the term 'shit' represents different things for different people. Things only have the meaning we give them, so in this context, shit is completely personal. One person's major problem or challenge - "I'm going through some big shit right now" - won't even register on another person's radar - "I have a small issue; it's no biggie".
The Perfection Obsession
Taking the bad with the good is what we do. It's what we must do if we want to not only survive, but thrive here on the big blue ball. Despite what the movies might portray, you and I don't have the option of living in perfection. Not in our physical world anyway. For some of us, our propensity to obsess about perfection is part of the problem. The perfect partner, the perfect body, the perfect teeth, the perfect parents, the perfect child, the perfect house with the perfect view and the perfect existence. The three dimensional, physical world that you and I inhabit is flawed, corrupt, unfair (whatever that means), unpredictable and unforgiving; far from perfect. However, it can also be an amazing, magical, mystical, beautiful and healing place; sometimes it depends where we look, and how we look. It's rare that two people who are looking at the same thing will actually see the same thing.
A Personal Response?
One person sees shit happening, another sees a great opportunity and yet another sees a timely and profound life-lesson; one person's crap is another person's genesis for transformation and personal growth. One person complains about the bad weather while another chooses to dance in the rain. Misery or happiness; a personal reaction. One father gets angry at his son for crashing the car while another celebrates the fact that his child was not hurt in the accident. Over and over we see that in life, our personal experience (our internal reality) is not about the situation, the circumstance, the event or the environment but about our individual reaction to, and interpretation of, our external world and the events of that world; what we do and what we don't do. How we process, how we react and how we deal with that particular life experience.
Steering the Ship
Fortunately, many of us have a desire to turn the bad into the good. Or into a good lesson at the very least. That's a great start. Some of us will choose to fight the shit, overcome the shit, learn from the shit and deal with it as best we can and sadly, others will choose to lay down. Some will control their situation and circumstances, while others will be controlled. Some will steer their own ship, while others will be helpless passengers. By choice. Some will learn, grow, improve, adapt and become better versions of themselves, while others will become angry, bitter, resentful and self-pitying. And those in the second group will build themselves an emotional prison of which the foundation is fear.
But....
Now, I know what some of you will be thinking... "but some things are out of our control". Yep, you're right. I'm not for one moment suggesting that everything is in our control but what we can control is us; our choices, reactions, conversations, behaviours and habits. One of my friends has been battling cancer for five years - six different forms of it. Of course her choice would have been to not have the disease - she wasn't given that option. The question for her is not, "will I have cancer?", it is "what will I do about it?" She continues to do what she needs to do because she wants to live. When her 'shit happened' she could have given up. She didn't; a personal reaction to a major challenge.
A Letter From Hellen
This morning (writing this Sunday), I received an email from one of my regular readers; Hellen. Early last week I had been informed by some of my other readers that she lives in Kinglake; the bushfire zone here in Victoria. For several days there had been much concern about Hellen and her safety. Fortunately, she is fine. No house, no car, zero material possessions, but fine. I haven't been able to contact her since she sent me the following letter because she has no computer to receive emails on - she sent me this message from someone else's computer. As I have been unable to talk with Hellen, I could not seek her permission to print the letter but I have decided to take a chance because at this point of her journey I don't think she is too precious about anything - especially if her story and insight might help the rest of us gain some perspective and clarity. The letter is unaltered except for the two things in brackets which I added to explain some acronyms.
Hi Craig,
I'm Hellen and I've been posting on your blog for a little while dilly dallying around about GMST (getting my shit together). Well... I live or lived in Kinglake and as you know we were hit pretty hard on the weekend with the fires. Can I say that there is nothing like a near death experience to make a person get their shit together! Life will never be the same but in the best possible way. I appreciate every breath I take now and life is wonderful despite us losing all the material things, house, car etc. we have lost so many families it just makes the material losses so insignificant. I just want to say that having been visiting your blog for a while I know that there are wonderful people in the world but I have been blown away by the compassion and enormous generosity of people. We have a free home for as long as we need, a car, the kids are fully clothed and have toys - the list is never ending. Total strangers have comforted me when I have fallen apart, which has been often. I have gained a lot of comfort by thinking back to some of your blogs and i want you to know that about being strong mentally, knowing what you want and doing something about it, not just talking about it. I think it will give me some good skills to build on. I've been a single mum for years and have piss farted around about every big decision put in front of me. No more. I am getting my shit together big time and life from here on in is going to be awesome. My WW (Weight Watchers)cyber friends have been lovely and every little bit of support helps. Just wanted to let you know I'm still here - your work does help people in a real way - and this Princess is sucking it up big time and loving it. xx
Hellen Fisher No Fixed Address (hehe)
Well Hellen, now all the theory has become a reality and you are learning, growing and changing like never before. Life will never be the same for you and you will never be the same. I won't offer you sympathy - you don't need it - but I will extend my love, support and unconditional friendship. If I can do anything to help, let me know. I genuinely mean this. I don't normally speak on behalf of others, but right now I'm pretty confident in saying that there's a large on-line community here at me-dot-com who would also do anything to help if possible. Let us know. We're available and we care. You are a brave, amazing woman and we are all proud of you. When you get a chance, can you get your phone number to me, I'd love to chat with you and I have a gift for you. Some big hugs and kisses for you and your kids ((XX)).
Today's Message?Shit is not optional but our reaction is.
Feel free to send Hellen a little cyber-love or if you would like to help her out in a more practical way, let us know and we'll connect you via email when we have her details. As always, I'd love to hear from you.If you're not sure how to leave a comment, clickhere. If you've never left a comment before then why don't you change that today? Don't let your fear or ego stop you from connecting with others.
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