by Margie | May 1, 2017 | Build Resilience, Live Passionately
What does it take to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying. Well let’s just say that God has been having a good old chuckle at me over the last week because guess what? I’m moving to Singapore. And guess what else? This was not in my...
by Margie | May 30, 2016 | Live Passionately, Women Rising
Let’s face it, life will never be exactly as you’d like it to be. Or not for long anyway. There will always be things you’d like to be different. To have less on your plate or more certainty about your future. To have fewer bills to pay or more support from your...
by Margie | Dec 2, 2015 | Live Passionately
Earlier this week I spent an evening with Oprah. Yes, just me and Oprah… and about 12,000 of her other Australian fans. Having admired Oprah for many years, I’d been mildly nervous that I had my expectations set too high. I needn’t have worried. What...
by Margie | Oct 19, 2015 | Lead Purposefully, Live Passionately
On Sunday I decided to ‘show up’ at the starting line for the Melbourne half-marathon (21 kms, 13 miles). I’d been on the fence about whether to go ahead with it as, in between all my recent travels, I’d fallen off the rails with my training. But show up I did with...
by Margie | Oct 14, 2015 | Live Passionately, Speak Bravely
Need to find some “Tall Poppy Courage?” If you live in Australia, or have ever travelled here, you’ll have heard of the Tall Poppy Syndrome. It may sound like a medical condition, but it’s actually a cultural one, whereby people who become too successful...