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Happy New Year

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BE INSPIRED It's a new year, a new day, a new page, a new story. Live this story and don't let pages from the past ruin this new beginning

Posted by Sarah Brown on 30 Dec '13 | Tags: inspiration goal setting

How did Edison light the world - a little known fact and a huge goal

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Thomas Edison set the goal of lighting the world so he not only had to invent a great light bulb but he had to ensure there would be electricity to power it.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 11 Oct '13 | Tags: goal setting entrepreneur inspiration aspiration charity social enterprise

Is the route to success finding your passion and following it?

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Are you doing what you are passionate about? Seeing young people at the beginning of their career finding their passion and realising work can be fun is inspirational.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 15 Sep '13 | Tags: entrepreneur social enterprise inspiration

Showing people can change - the power of nature and belief

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This month I have come across inspirational examples of heroin addicts and ex-offenders who are being changed by opportunities to be in the natural world.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 22 Jul '13 | Tags: inspiration socent charity

Is seeing believing?

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The power of the brand. Once people have a belief then it can be very hard to shift so it is critical to protect your brand by acting consistently at all times and being true to your values. I think many people will be surprised about where this picture was taken - I hope I am wrong.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 16 Jul '13 | Tags: marketing inspiration local authority strategic development

How to change the world with marketing not charity

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An inspirational story of how understanding a market others might ignore can work for a company and change the lives of the poor. And also a surprising statistic about the biggest selling mobile phone.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 05 Jul '13 | Tags: entrepreneur charity social enterprise marketing inspiration collaboration focus on action

Better Decision Making

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We make decisions every minute of every day even if the decision is to keep doing what we are doing but scarily too many decisions can work out wrong. Based on Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath I've developed a tool "The Decision Improver"(c) to help you make better decisions. Firstly be aware that it is rare a decision should be whether or not - widen your options, then test your assumptions, reduce the emotion, get your distance and then prepare to be wrong in either direction - overly successful or failing.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 25 Jun '13 | Tags: entrepreneur charity goal setting social enterprise strategic development inspiration business planning action decision making

Focus on action

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Action without focus is what the headless chicken is famous for, focus and goals linked to action make you unstoppable

Posted by Sarah Brown on 31 May '13 | Tags: entrepreneur goal setting social enterprise inspiration tools aspiration action

How understanding people is critical to business success

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If we don't understand how and why people change then how can we attract new customers? I've just finished reading Switch by Chip and Dan Heath it was great, with some really powerful examples of how to help people change, make decisions and bring about change in organisations or even countries.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 17 May '13 | Tags: entrepreneur goal setting social enterprise strategic development marketing inspiration aspiration

U-Mix opening - a day of social enterprise in practise and theory

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Having been involved with U-Mix project supporting with funding bids, business planning and the practical development it was great and quite emotional to see it open today. The event was well supported reflecting the mix of people that have helped to make it successful and a credit to FURD who organised it. Before that I was at the Working Capital Conference which had some interesting comments from the head of Bid Society Capital.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 12 Apr '13 | Tags: charity social enterprise business planning strategic development inspiration collaboration local authority public sector

An unexpected tale

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Inspiration can happen at the most unexpected moments, listening to a tale about a rich Chinese man on holiday has had a lasting impact.

Posted by Sarah Brown on 23 Jan '13 | Tags: aspiration inspiration goal setting travel

How coaching keeps you motivated on the roller coaster of life

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Some weeks give me a chance to benefit from my coaching and keep on going. “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Edison

Posted by Sarah Brown on 04 Nov '12 | Tags: coaching entrepreneur inspiration

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