Creating Lasting Change

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jul 5, 2010 in Dealing with Problems, Think Differently | 19 comments

Today's post is by Matthew Needham, a UK based professional interim manager and qualified accountant. He is the writer for The Big Red Tomato Company and member of the Infopreneur.net TIP Team. You can connect with him on Facebook or on Twitter or subscribe to his RSS feed. If you have an business problem you want to chat through you can hire him for a one hour brainstorm/consulting session.

Remember the film Ghostbusters with the catchy theme tune by Ray Parker Jr? Whenever you had a problem you called the Ghostbusters who would clear up any problem ghost? Well, that's kind of what I do, except I don't deal in ghosts.

I work as a professional interim manager and help organisations during times of change. So whenever they have a problem, they call me. I deal in change. I deal in change a lot.

One of the things that my clients pay me for is to quickly embed change into their organisation. Whether that's changes to business processes, changes to culture or simply providing an extra pair of hands when times are tough.

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Friday’s Virtual Business Lifestyle Homework

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jul 2, 2010 in Dealing with Problems, Success, Think Differently | 20 comments

After the success of the Matthew Needham week last week (it was so successful it even caused Mrs BRT to give birth to their first son), I thought I'd run another individual themed homework post this week. This time it's the turn of my good friend Chris Ducker from VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com.

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The Success Interviews – Matt Draycott

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jun 30, 2010 in Motivation, Success | 8 comments

This success interview is with a good friend of mine Matt Draycott who is a successful entrepreneur, lecturer and entertainer with a passion for developing young people's enterprise dreams. I first met Matt at an event in Grimsby, UK where my company was helping him launch a young enterprise project. I was blown away my his presence on stage as well as his passion for young people and enterprise. Matt won the coveted "National Young Enterprise Business Adviser’ award in 2008 and is currently working as a lecturer at Wrexham University, UK where he continues to inspire young people.

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Living With Intention – A Guest Post

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jun 28, 2010 in Think Differently | 28 comments

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Today's post is by Alicia McLucas is a Life Coach and a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher for adults and youth. She also developed a program teaching the principles of mindfulness meditation to high school teens at Insight Meditation Center in California. To learn more about Alicia visit her website at www.aliciamclucas.com or feel free to connect with her on Facebook.

Have you ever found yourself beaming with passion, and a sense of determination over a new goal? Then, a few days or weeks later, you notice that that burning desire has dwindled to a spark. How did this happen when you were so sure of yourself?

Haven’t we all had the experience of being in dialogue with someone where we reacted inappropriately and caused harm when it was not our intention? What happened there?

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6aliens.com becomes part of something much more

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jun 27, 2010 in Success | 22 comments

So I'm really excited about today. I've been building to today for a while now and I'm really excited to be sharing something very cool with you all. This is a really big shift for both me and 6aliens.com and I hope you can all be as excited as me.

From today, 6aliens.com is part of thebenlumley.com, my own personal site that is going to allow me to offer my services to a much wider audience and ultimately help me to achieve my dreams of helping and supporting as many people as I can. The blog will remain the same but will simply now become a part of the new site, so no need to change your RSS feeds, links or the like.

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