Peter Nicholls
Australia's People Gardener
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Personal Growth Through Enjoyment Expert
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- Enjoy Being You
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- Life Member of Parks and Leisure Australia
I am Australia's People Gardener - Growing better people! The formula involves fertilizing natural abilities with passionate interests and mix with positive like-minded people.
Ok that's the hook stuff! My professional background is in the field of recreation and leisure strategic planning and development. This has been the product of a lifetime of passionate interest in what makes people 'tick' when they are enjoying leisure, recreation and sporting interests. I have worked professionally in parks and recreation for over 40 years. Through this I have developed a unique understanding personal growth and development. Key words in my business include enjoyment, self esteem, self confidence, self belief, sense of self worth, creativity, innovation, lateral thinking, commitment and goal-achievement. All vital to enjoy work, home and play.
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Why Employees’ Leisure Interests are Good for Business
Remember the last time a long-term employee left your organization? Remember all the valuable things he/she could do that weren’t required in their job specification? The unofficial event organizer, counselor, mediator, computer whizz, to name just a few. Sometimes the person is remembered more for those reasons than for the work they were paid to do.
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I Wanna Be a Kid Again
Gee I loved being a kid. Living for the moment, laughing for the sheer joy of doing so, letting my imagination run wild, not trying to be someone I wasn't, saying "yes I can do that" to everything I wanted to try, even if I wasn’t any good at it. I didn’t have to worry about getting a job, a relationship, or pay off a mortgage.
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Boomer to Bloomer - A New Life Phase for Baby Boomers
Field hockey was for many years my sport. I played at the top level, trained hard and enjoyed the battle of mind and body. As I got older I started to feel the pressures, the harsh training and the fitness demands. I didn’t want to quit though, so I moved to playing in the Veteran Grades.
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What Are You Like at Growing People?
Science fiction? Advice to mothers? No, just a different way of looking at staff development programs. How do you help your people to develop their skills, maximize potential and promote vigorous personal growth? Employers who attract and keep the best people focus on what I call people-investment programs, rather than human resource management. Employers of choice build on the knowledge that people are the same 24/7 and don't suddenly change into Superman or Wonder Woman when they arrive at the office.
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How to Manage Work Life Stress
Recent studies have shown that ‘work life balance’ is the number one want of workers – even higher in priority than salary. And it’s not just younger people. It applies also to ageing workers, especially those who are starting to look to a second adulthood, one in which passion takes over from pay. What I read into this however is that people are saying they want to enjoy life and ‘work/life balance’ is the in-phrase that comes nearest to expressing that want. But the fact is that work/life balance is an unrealistic time management concept:
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7 Steps Towards Turning Your Work/Life Pain into Pleasure
Does this picture fit you? • sleeplessness • being angry a little too often • frequent frustration • increased absenteeism from work • presenteeism (going to work when you were so sick you should have stayed home) • reduced conce for customers/ clients • emotional exhaustion • a reduced sense of accomplishment • unable to switch off from work These are some of the pains you feel when the demands of work and personal life are all too much for you. They can be summed up in one word - stress.
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Who's Writing the Script of "Your Life"?
Imagine you're attending a live theatre show with friends. It's interval and the inevitable question comes up: What do you think of the show so far?” This particular show is rather different and it's vitally important to you - it's called “Your Life”. You're the star, the director, producer and script writer. So, what do you think of your life so far? Like the stage show, there'll be parts you've liked and parts you haven't, people you've liked and people you haven't. Are you hoping the second half of the show will be as good as, or better than, the first half?
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How Passion Unlocks Potential
It's after knock-off time and you're still at the office, working on a project you feel was made for you. You've become so absorbed in your thoughts and ideas and the sheer enjoyment of the experience, you haven't noticed everyone else has gone home. Your mind, body and spirit have come together as you pour your natural talents, skills and abilities into a product that only you could create. It's a feeling sometimes described as a ‘state of flow'.
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How to Start Becoming a Better Public Speaker
You're asked to make a presentation to a meeting or seminar. No matter how brilliant the material you plan to present, it can all fall apart in the telling. Here are some simple but powerfully effective check points to help you make winning presentations. Research your audience as much as possible - male, female, ages, interests. Identify as much as you can why they there to listen to you. What is the core message you want to get across? Design everything you say to assert and support that message. Speaking is one to one communication:
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Five Keys to Promoting Positive Human Behaviour
There is little need to speak in support of promoting positive human behaviour. It’s axiomatic to say positive human behaviour opens the mind, body and spirit to being more expressive, enthusiastic, creative, opportunistic, lateral-thinking, aware, receptive, enquiring , motivating…the list goes on.
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Maturity is About Being True to Yourself
You have reached your 50’s. You certainly aren’t old. The new 50 is the old 35, the new 60 is the old 40 and all of that stuff. You are not feeling any sense of decline. You are at the peak of your working career and getting many of the benefits of your hard work.
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How to Sustain Your Inner Strength in Business
Did you know that, as a rule of thumb, a tree's root system is something like one and a half times the depth and width of the tree? This is the real source of its strength and stability to withstand the forces of nature and more. What you see is only the ‘tip of the iceberg'. Of crucial importance is the fact that the purpose of the root system is to seek out and supply the energy needed by the tree to grow, survive and blossom to its full potential. Without a constant supply of new energy the tree will wither and die.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Peter Nicholls
Here's some quotes from my book "Enjoy Being You":
"What better way to express yourself, develop your abilities and find your purpose in life than through doing something purely for the joy it gives you"
"When you lose yourself in an interest you love, you find yourself".
"Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane".
"Freedom thrives on the freedom to do, rather than the freedom to do nothing"
Contacting Peter Nicholls
peter@apg.life or mobile 61 0417 817 027