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Unlocking Success: The Power of Curiosity

Unlocking Success: The Power of Curiosity

by | Apr 10, 2024 | My Life, My Work

Unlocking Success: The Power of Curiosity

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”- Albert Einstein

Curiosity isn’t just a trait of the intellectually gifted; it’s a potent tool for professionals and businesses alike. The relentless pursuit of knowledge and understanding not only fuels innovation but also fosters resourcefulness. Curious individuals tend to make more informed decisions, devise creative solutions, and build stronger interpersonal connections.

How can curiosity elevate your career, business, or simply your enthusiasm for life?

  1. Enhance Business Practices: Deepening your understanding of your industry empowers you to refine business strategies, boost revenue, and enhance customer and employee satisfaction.
  2. Facilitate Better Decisions: Curiosity fosters a holistic perspective, guiding more informed decision-making processes.
  3. Foster Likability: Demonstrating genuine curiosity not only showcases intelligence but also makes you more approachable and relatable, strengthening interpersonal bonds.
  4. Cultivate Stakeholder Relationships: Genuine interest in stakeholders fosters robust, fulfilling, and loyal relationships with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.
  5. Address Customer Challenges: Curiosity drives proactive problem-solving by examining root causes and devising innovative solutions to enhance customer experiences.
  6. Learn from Failures: Curiosity prompts introspection, enabling individuals and businesses to glean valuable lessons from setbacks and refine strategies accordingly.
  7. Enhance Negotiation Skills: Curiosity about the needs and perspectives of all parties involved fosters mutually beneficial negotiations.
  8. Minimize Conflict: Embracing diverse perspectives and encouraging collaboration reduces conflicts and enhances group effectiveness.
  9. Drive Product Development: Curiosity fuels innovation by prompting exploration of product/service enhancements based on consumer needs and desires.

 

Fostering Curiosity in the Workplace: Research suggests that cultivating curiosity among employees leads to higher job satisfaction and performance.

  1. Maintain an Open Mind: Encourage brainstorming sessions and embrace novel ideas with an open mind to foster a culture of innovation.
  2. Embrace Novelty: Encourage employees to explore new experiences regularly to stimulate curiosity and creativity.
  3. Recruit Curious Minds: During the hiring process, prioritize candidates who demonstrate a natural curiosity and eagerness to learn.
  4. Lead by Example: Demonstrate curiosity by actively engaging with employees’ ideas and feedback, fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual respect.
  5. Solicit Employee Input: Regularly seek input from employees to identify areas for improvement and drive organizational innovation.
  6. Focus on Learning: Encourage employees to set learning goals, fostering continuous growth and development.
  7. Promote Skill Expansion: Support employees in expanding their skills and knowledge through further education and networking opportunities.
  8. Encourage Innovation: Host regular innovation sessions to brainstorm new ideas and challenge the status quo.

Remember, curiosity is a muscle that requires regular exercise. Set aside time each day to nurture your curiosity, explore new perspectives, and embrace the unknown.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”- Albert Einstein

Ferne Eliz King

Love Life Love YOUR Life

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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Health Scare

Health Scare

by | Jan 1, 2024 | My Life

‘Can you please come in to discuss your results?’

In 2019, the author, a 54-year-old mother with a 5-year-old daughter, was dealing with menopause and juggling multiple income streams and business interests. She was experiencing discomfort in her gut and was diagnosed with a serious condition. After surgery, she learned about the importance of quality food, drink, and home environment. As she enters her 60th year, she reflects on her life and wishes she had learned to ask quality questions earlier and listen to the answers. She also reflects on her health habits, such as purchasing fruits and vegetables from reputable suppliers and avoiding supermarkets. She also uses a super-antioxidant called glutathione, which defends white blood cells, removes free radicals, and protects against viruses. Although glutathione is naturally occurring, people over 20 need to supplement it to gain its benefits. The author uses a swish and skin spray as additional steps to their skin care routine.

Ferne Eliz King shares her personal experiences with improving her health and living a clean and green home. She uses high-pH water, which is more easily absorbed by the body, for better hydration and better functioning of her skin, brain, and organs. She uses a machine to convert water levels from 7 to 9.5pH. She also uses the same machine to clean and disinfect her home, using different pH levels for cleaning 11pH and disinfectant 2.5pH, and adding essential oils for different effects. She also uses Monat hair products, which she finds to be the best for her hair health. She also maintains a basic skincare routine, using products like Antipodes Intense Skin-plumping Serum, de Mamiel face oils, Dermaceutic K Ceutic cream, glutathione spray, natural soaps, and a face wash. Ferne advises others to research products and understand their own individual body’s strengths and weaknesses. She offers free discussions for individuals or groups to discuss challenges, opportunities, and choices for a better life and a clean green home.

Ferne’s advice to anyone who is looking into improving their health please please do your research – learn to ask quality questions, repeatedly. Not all products are made equally, expensive does not always mean quality and cheap does not always mean inferior. Do not get disheartened by all the information out there.  Look to those that you feel are the best them in the best form and ask what they do, what they use.  Know your own body.  Your weaknesses and strengths physically and mentally.

She offers 2 free sessions a week to individuals or groups for 30 minutes to chat about challenges, opportunities and choices for good health choices and a clean green home.
Ferne is passionate about helping others and giving back, and putting all those research hours to good use ! ,

Book a 30 min call or email me [email protected]

Love Life ❤️ Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King 

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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Act on your passions

Act on your passions

by | Aug 2, 2022 | My Life

Act on your Passions

I don’t entirely agree with the expression ‘do what you love, and the money will follow.’ You might love what you do, and eventually the day may come where you are financially rewarded for it, but what will you live off in the meantime? Passion does not pay the bills.  We need to make a plan!

When you discover your passion, something you would really love to commit to full time, you must start developing your long-term plan and taking action on it TODAY. As much as we would all love to quit our job and jump into our new venture feet first, it is just not viable or practical for most people and for those that can – awesome and congratulations.  But that is not the norm. 

But dreaming is not enough, visualising is not enough .. we need to take ACTION to gain that experience and feeling you imagine from doing what you are passionate about. 

The good news is with the right mindset, quality questions and a plan, there is a way to succeed.

Where do I begin?

An exercise to identify your passions and establishing which of those could be used to create an income.

Step 1: Ask yourself the following questions.

  1. What are your strengths?
  2. What are you passionate about?
  3. Can you align your strengths with your passions?
  4. Where these passions and strengths align, would you be able to use them as a source of income?
  5. Is that source of income a service to others; will it benefit others or the world we live in?
  6. How will you generate revenue by doing this, what would be your differentiator?
  7. Can you anticipate the hurdles you will encounter along the way?
  8. How will you overcome these hurdles?
  9. What are your 5 short-term and long-term goals?
  10. What are your top priorities to focus on to begin achieving your short-term goals?
  11. What would you need to do more of, less of for short and long term plan? (including less of or more of which humans in your life) 
  12.  What will motivate you to continue reaching your goals, even when you encounter difficulties?
  13. Write a story about how you will experience or feel when you have realised a sustainable income from following your passion(s).  Who is the first person you would tell, how would you describe the journey to them? 

Step 2: Start Saving

Think about your finances. Eventually you will have the stability to commit full time, but during the initial stages, it is unlikely that you will have that luxury. It takes the average business 2-3 years to start making a profit. Begin to prepare your ‘back-up’ finances and start saving for start up costs. Cut out unnecessary spend now. 

Step 3: Start Networking

Start forming connections to expand your network. The accessibility of social media makes it easy to reach out to similar individuals for inspiration, support, and information. Having a supporting network before you begin your venture will be a great asset to your long-term success.  Limit yourself to research, dont get lost in what everyone else is doing, gain enough insights then get off the ‘research’ merry go round and apply your plan. 

Step 4: Get guidance from a professional

Run your ideas past a mentor.  Their role is to assess your circumstances and support and guide you towards a successful path, applying their experiences in a positive and inspiring way.  You have what it takes within you, this is your dream, your passion.  A good mentor helps you improve your intuition and where you trip up inspire to keep going. They might point out obstacles you have not seen, or mitigations to risks you had not foreseen, or even shift your focus to another way to create an income from your skills and passion. If you still don’t have any ideas after asking yourself all the above questions, a mentor is a good place to begin.

Step 5: Don’t wait around

Studies have found that the longer your dreams spend in the ‘one day pile’, the less likely you will ever achieve them. Make a plan and start to take action today and every day from now forward.  Even if it is only 15 min a day .. it is a step to your future. 

Your old career or pathway is always going to remain in the background, but the chance to make a change to achieve your dreams will not. It does take time, energy, persistence and motivation but it is possible and worth it.  It is time to put the excuses aside and start making a change – you deserve it.

Love Life, Love YOUR Life

Ferne Eliz King

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

by | Jun 22, 2022 | My Life

Mindset The secret to shifting your finances from fine to fantastic

We all wish for wealth. We want to be able to pay off a home without feeling the financial pressure, we wish to be able to live the life that will fulfill us and those we care for and the world around us. We want to be able to splurge occasionally without feeling guilt. We want to stop living in scarcity mode! But… If you are honest with yourself, you have probably caught yourself thinking about having so much more. You don’t dare to dream it for risk of being avaricious, but it pops into your mind from time to time. There is a stigma around wealth and how people perceive it. I am challenging you today to shift that mindset if you have it.  It does not serve you.  There is NOTHING WRONG with dreaming big, in fact, I believe it is critical for success.

How much would you like to earn to live abundantly?
What would the experience be, how would you live, what impacts would you make, what legacy would you leave .. so many questions.

Shifting your Money mindset
Your money mindset is how you approach and make decisions about your finances. Your overall mindset towards money can have a big impact of your success so the first thing we need to do is address is any stigma you have around money. What is your earliest memory of money? Was it positive? The answer is almost always no, whether it be overhearing your parents worry about the bills, being deprived of something you really wanted because of money such as a school camp, a trip to the movies, or a toy that everyone else seemed to have, or overhearing trusted adults speak negatively about other people’s wealth. What we heard influences us.  How many heard “money does not grow on trees you know”? While it is very healthy to be exposed to the concept of money and budgeting from an early age, it may also put you in scarcity mode, it may stop you from putting yourself out there for fear of how others may perceive your success.

A big part of this journey is to be comfortable in yourself and remember that ‘those that mind don’t matter, and those that matter don’t mind.’

Surround yourself with people that will celebrate your success and be proud of you.

Take a moment to consider these questions.

  1. What is the worst thing that could happen if you succeeded in earning all the wealth you could imagine?
  2. What is the worst thing someone would say about you? Does that person really matter?
  3. What is the best thing that could happen with your abundance of wealth? How could you use that wealth for good?
  4. What are the best things that people would say about you?

Do your answers to 3 & 4 outweigh the answers to 1 & 2? If so, congratulations, you are on track to shifting your mindset. I often say in my bloggs… the experience you imagine when realising your goals needs to outweigh your fears.  If your fears outweigh the experience of the gaol you will fail to achieve what it is you dream for.   Either up the anti on the experience of the goal, or decrease your fear – balance the scales in your favour. 

Creating a positive relationship with money

  • Be positive, and use positive language (and believe it)
  • Be thankful when money comes to you, in your wage, in a gift, if you find 2$, be thank ful and say it out loud, say it to yourself, believe it
  • Don’t focus on your problems, focus on your solutions (focus on the things you can control)
  • Break bad habits by keeping your goals in mind (e.g. go from spending less on take away food to have more money for bills, to spending less of take away to have more savings to purchase something that will help you achieve your goals).
  • Know where you are right now in your financial situation, be real about your starting point
  • Think of 6 month, 12 month and 5 year financial goals
  • Write your goals down and keep them where you can see them everyday
  • dont be afraid to ask for help if needed, but I find that 90% of people have it within them to make this shift, others do not alter your mindset, you do

It is okay to dream, it is okay to set your aspirations high, it is okay to want more. Greed is the root of all evil, but money is not!

 

Ferne Eliz King

Love Life Love YOUR Life

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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How many people are you helping this month?

How many people are you helping this month?

by | Jun 22, 2022 | My Life, My Work

Selling My Services!

What would happen if we begin to measure success by the number of people that we have helped instead of a dollar amount? I know money is important and ‘good feelings’ don’t pay the bills. But I have recently explored this concept and while it may not be for everyone, I thought I would share what I have discovered.

I have always loved what I do and I get a massive kick out of people doing something different tomorrow because of their engagement with me today.  I am finding myself more motivated than when my focus was meeting financial targets.

To state the obvious, by helping X number of clients, I am still going to be generating X amount of revenue, but this mindset shift has helped me with my Achilles’ heel, the one area of my job I have never felt comfortable: Selling My Service!

I know I am not alone. No matter the passion, or how amazing you are at what you do, the reality is: Selling makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

Entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, Dean Graziosi explains the secret to selling is to “change what selling means to you. Start thinking “I’m happy to sell them this because I know it can make a positive impact on their life” …I love what I do and the service that I offer. I know I’m making a difference for people, so much that I feel I’m doing a disservice if I don’t get them to take action.”

Let’s refresh the way we look at generating the revenue we need to live.

How will your product or service help your client? What would be the consequence to your client if they did NOT purchase your product or service? Keep reminding yourself of that consequence, you are HELPING your clients improve their quality of life. Your business goal is to offer an amazing product or service that will be of value to your clients.

So instead of thinking and experiencing “doing what you love and watching the money follow”, amend this to “do what you love and see the difference you make to peoples lives” – and be proud of that services and valued for the payment you receive for it.

How many clients do you want to help this month, what is the value of that service to them, be proud!

Ferne Eliz King

Love Life  Love YOUR Life

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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The connection between Emotional Intelligence and Success

The connection between Emotional Intelligence and Success

by | Jun 11, 2022 | My Life, My Work

The connection between Emotional Intelligence and Success.

Did you know…

  • 90% of the top performers in business have a high emotional intelligence?
  • In 70% of cases, people with average IQ’s outperform those with a higher IQ? (This is linked to the individuals emotional intelligence)
  • People with high emotional intelligence earn an average of 29k more each year
    (Source: Inc)

Your emotional intelligence is an element of your emotional strength. Your emotional intelligence involves how approachable, observant, and empathetic you are, how well you listen, the way you handle interpersonal problems or failures, and the way you lead or work in a team. Your emotional strength goes beyond that to daily behaviours and habits to continuously improve your quality of life. While your overall emotional strength is important for a healthy work ethic you need strong emotional intelligence to succeed. The great news is unlike your IQ, your emotional intelligence is like a muscle and by doing the right exercise, you can improve yours.

Exercises to Improve your emotional intelligence

Before we begin, understand that increasing your emotional intelligence involves hard work and dedication. It is hard work, but it is worthwhile.

Small beginnings

Rome wasn’t built in a day. Don’t try to change too much too fast. Focus on one or two of the below areas to begin with and as they become natural to you, move on to other areas.

  • Tomorrow is a new day. It might be a cliché but reflecting on your performance each day is one of the most effective ways to improve your emotional intelligence. Recognise what has gone well and how you have made yourself proud, but also reflect on what you could improve on. Start fresh each day knowing you will be better than yesterday.
  • Set goals for yourself. Use your daily reflections to start setting personal and professional goals for yourself. Display them visually to keep yourself on track. Having a goal means your are always working to improve.
  • Be accountable. This one is a bit confronting, when things go wrong it is human nature to find someone or something to blame. You are in charge or your life and your decisions. When something goes wrong, challenge yourself to take responsibility. When you hold yourself accountable you begin to discover why things have not gone to plan you are more likely to learn from your experience.
  • Give your Emotions Time to Process. We all have different personalities and with that comes different reactions to the same experience. Immediately reacting is not going to do you any favours. Reacting with anger can cause you to ‘shoot yourself in the foot’ long term, reacting with excitement can cause you to overcommit and does not create trust with peers. Regardless of your feelings, always stop and give your emotions time to catch up and try to consider reason before you react.
  • Handling Stress. Discover healthier mechanisms to cope with your stress. After a hard day, there are some common habits a lot for us use to relieve stress such as alcohol, devices/TV, or unhealthy eating. Find a healthy alternative that you personally enjoy. For example, light exercise, reading a book, a relaxing bath, cooking a meal, calling an old friend, spending time with the family or journaling.
  • Work on your mindset. Consciously start choosing not to let problems beyond your control affect you. Choose to push negative thoughts aside and focus on something positive or at least productive. Your mindset affects your relationships and your motivation, so make an intentional decision to improve it.
  • Increase self-discipline. Try to improve your discipline by a small amount each day. You can teach yourself to be more disciplined, but the mistake is to go too hard too fast, the only pitfall is making too many plans and only taking 1 action or minimal actions.  Make less plans and action all your plans. 
  • Decisions. Think every decision through. Challenge yourself to think from different angles, from the perspectives of others and before you make your final decisions consider the risks associated and how you will manage them. Consider consequences, consider the feeling and emotion you will experience when that decision is realised – is that feeling greater than the fear of not making the decision? 
  • Just do it. It is normal to have apprehension when trying new things. If you have an idea to progress in your business or career, don’t let that fear hold you back! If you want to start creating memes for your socials, start a newsletter or develop a new product- go for it!  Test, learn, refine .. but above all – take the first step.
  • Know your limits. Business can be challenging, know your capabilities. Don’t allow yourself to burn out because you have too much pride to admit you need help or support.
  • Take the challenge. Aim to do 1 difficult task each day. Experts claim that challenging yourself once a day will significantly increase your mental strength, resilience, knowledge and overall success.

Exercise your emotional strength each day, gradually improve your emotional intelligence celebrate the long term benefits in your career and personal relationships.  Track your progress !

Ferne Eliz King

Love Life  Love YOUR Life

About Ferne

Ferne is globally recognised and called upon for quickly accelerating complex change to achieve business strategies.  Translating strategies to actionable plans, prioritisation of those actions, engagement from the right people, bringing business architecture to life or your life plan if individual and in many cases driving the change as a program director.  The bottom line is Ferne accelerates businesses or individuals to achieve outcomes and enabling that is her passion.

What's the consequence if you take no action?

“If you do the same thing today as yesterday, your tomorrow will be the same as today”.  Ferne Eliz King

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