The beautiful thing about age and getting ‘older’, is that experience is gained, knowledge and wisdom is in abundance (Hopefully, but not always the case of course) and you don’t need to worry about numerous things.
Things like not needing to worry about getting wrinkles or grey hair, because you already have them or Toothache, because you’ve lost all your teeth – Joking!!

It’s ironic though that when a person reaches close to 50 they are considered old and ‘past it’ and are on their road to retirement, when in fact they are coming into their prime for making quality contributions. They have the knowledge, the experience in their fields, experience in relationships and have a greater understanding about what really is important in life. All of this can be passed on to those that will listen and hopefully learn.
The number of times that I have talked to Singapore Taxi drivers who were once working in the corporate sector as advisors, consultants or middle and senior management and then suddenly, ‘oops sorry your too old’ and are then relegated to sitting in a car taking the general public and corporate managers around the town picking them up and dropping them off – A bitter pill to swallow and does nothing for self esteem. What a waste of potential. (By the way, I am not saying that taxi drivers do not or cannot contribute – It’s the rationale behind the transition).

Just look at the age of the Astronauts over the past 20 years – all or most are/were in their early to mid forties. In fact the oldest person to go into space was John Glenn in 1998 at the age of 77. The oldest person to pilot a space craft was Mike Melvill in 2004 at the age of 63. Some had to wait in excess of 20 years before getting into space.

Well I am not retired and far from it, and would like to share my experiences regarding what has and has not worked for me and help and point those who would care to look and listen, in a direction they wish to go.   It doesn’t matter what age you are.
So my first suggestion is READ: You need to educate and continue to educate yourself and understand the fundamentals about yourself, yours and others’ behaviours and thought patterns. I am amazed at the number of people who complain about their lot, and fail to pick up a book to be mentally stimulated.
Some religious text are thousands of years old and hold great wisdoms, but so do books that are more recent in comparative terms. Try starting by reading or re-reading these books:

-    Psycho Cybernetics –Maxwell Maltz M.D.
-    Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
-    You Were Born Rich – Bob Proctor
-    As a Man Thinketh – James Allen
-    The Science of Getting Rich – Wallace D. Wattles

Invest in yourself and start or continue with these life-changing books.

Regards
Des

After spending 20 years running workshops mainly within the corporate sector (Less in a public capacity), it requires some thought rearrangement in regard to how you actually help someone, online.  By help, I mean offering something that will assist in achieving a desired objective. (Not that a person is incapacitated and needs ‘help’ – 000 or 999 will do that thank goodness).
How or if a person can be helped, obviously depends upon what kind of help a person thinks they need.
So this site is dedicated to helping people by pointing them in a direction where they can receive the tools, products or learning’s that will help them work their way towards their objectives. It is a hub, a core location where action will achieve results.

So how do you help someone online – Simply help them get what they want.

If your looking for money, sorry – but I can help you focus on what you need to do to get it.

The areas we will be covering as we build a presence, are based upon our very successful corporate workshops and materials and products that support what we have been teaching. The areas or categories are:

-    Work Matters
-    Home Matters
-    Health Matters

Of course they are totally interrelated because if you are unhappy in any one (or more) of these areas, it directly affects the other. We will cover a substantial number of subjects and topical issues as we build our database. Just some of the topics are:

-    How to build resilience to pressure at work
-    How to stop worrying – Learn how to worry happily
-    Books that will change you
-    Your Health, Your Relationships & Your Achievement
-    Take the Relationship ‘Happy Test‘
-    Take the Work ‘Happy Test‘
-    On-Line Workshops that will improve your job satisfaction and performance
-    How to quit your job and create your own On-Line business
-    Removing fears and phobias
-    How to get a good nights sleep the natural way
-    How to impress your manager and get that raise
-    And many more…

The overall objectives are to help focus, offer knowledge, teach strategy and methodology and validate the outcomes in relation to your goals.
If you have any particular question in relation to the above please post a comment.

Thanks Des

If you have never taken the step to ‘get connected’ then you may not be aware that a couple of the hardest things is considering the direction of where you want to project yourself and the vehicle(s) you wish to use on the journey to get where you say you want to go.
I have been very fortunate to have found a fantastic ‘Fleet’ of vehicles to help me on my way, and I’ll share these later as they will help you too, if you wish to ‘get connected’ and use the power of the internet.

The only thing you can’t buy is where you want to go, as that is an internal desire, and even that can change. But remember it is always ok to change your mind as you go along. If you have ever raced in a sailing boat you will know exactly what I mean.

Sailing boats when they start a race usually head in a direction that appears to be taking them away from the finishing line as they do not head straight towards it. There is also a lot of confusion for the decision maker (Skipper) about making the ‘right’ decision. Very, very, rarely is a course set and you sail straight to the finishing point.
Adjustments have to be made in relation to the environmental conditions and you may appear to be going in a different direction (which you are) but you are still moving closer to where you want to go.  The more you adjust the clearer the strategy on how to get there can become.
It’s a bit like life really. We start off hopefully with some idea of what we ‘want to be’ and the actual experience of attempting to get there, can cause you to self evaluate and adjust and take you in a seemingly different direction(s), yet all the time you are gaining experience and confidence which will inevitably help you get there.

If you really want to understand the dynamics of how to overcome the obstacles of a changing environment and know how to adjust accordingly and develop what it takes to continuously move forward, then an essential guide you must have is “Psycho Cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz. A small but brilliant, classic read and recently been revised. A must have.
On this note I am going to change tack and finish and start to set up a list of what I believe are Must Reads. Throughout the years as I have helped and coached people, I have continually been asked, “what books do you recommend or suggest I should read“, so what better opportunity than now, to do just that.

‘See’ you in the next blog. And thanks for taking the time to read this

Des Allen

In January 2011 I wrote a blog on our company website www.humanhorizons-intl.com about working cultures, and wow have the months flown by – It’s October already and the Christmas barrage is already happening as Christmas trees and trimmings are in full swing in the department stores.

So how has the working culture been for you so far, this year? Anything change for the better – would love to hear about it and also what caused the change.

The markets are screaming warnings of downturn and the need for financial ‘baleouts’ before another 2008 occurs and Wall Street and other city icons around the world are ‘under seige’.  People are becoming more and more dissatisfied and vocal with the pressures emanating from both within and outside of work and also with the unequal distribution and control of the wealth. Worry, uncertainty and fear are common companions that arrive usually just before you try to go to sleep, which exacerbates the problem.

How do you cope with all of this? – as regardless of what happens  – you have to.

Is there anything I can do? Do I just have to grin and bear it?

Answers: Yes and No.

Keep your eyes posted over the next few days, weeks and months as I will be offering greater clarity on how You stress yourself out, How You ruin your sleep (barring neurological damage) and how You cause your health to deteriorate!! (Sorry but you actually do it, I know circumstances can appear to say otherwise, but ultimately you create your experience). I’ll also be offering ways to help you change your experience and move to more effective and proactive ways to achieve what you are looking for.

Our repetitive and habitual nature can sometimes take us down the preverbal ‘Rabbit Hole’ and finding a way out can be difficult. I have spent over 20 years working in the private and corporate sectors, helping people find that way out and it’s time to help even more people; hence this blog – so stay tuned.

Des Allen

I have been procrastinating for a very long time about establishing a blog site that focuses on helping people and guiding them into various directions that are in line with where they want to go. I certainly do know how to help people at various levels, after all I have spent 20 years doing precisely that. As many things in the world have changed, I believe it necessary to also change the way I can help.

Everyone I asked regarding getting a real internet presence so that you can help more people, said “Just get online and blog away about anything to start with”. “People read anything” was a common phrase I heard.

“Who would be interested in anything that you had to say” said the voice somewhere in the back of my mind, every time I thought about it – hence the procrastination.

In talking with a new business acquaintance very recently, a guy called Randy Smith from the UK, he said something that really inspired me.

During our chats he mentioned certain situations and circumstances that he had experienced; things that I considered quite personal considering I had just been introduced to him (Things that I probably would not have shared with anyone – until I at least got to know them).

I thanked him for sharing these experiences. “Hey”, he said, “It’s my story it is who I am and it’s part of my life – I don’t mind sharing, I don’t care”.  Often we can be very quick to judge others as we make comparisons with our own experiences and values – but it’s just part of their story.

Growth occurs beyond the edge of the comfort zone.  So here I am venturing into the unknown (and inevitably will be judged by many – hopefully, well at least they will have read something I have written) with a genuine desire to continue helping people in a new technologically driven way, across two distinct but connected areas. Work & Private Life.

I can’t help but repeat my favourite personal development poem:

“Some men die by shrapnel 
and some go down in flames
but most men perish inch by inch
playing at little games”
                                          author unknown

We all have the rest of our life to create, so here goes and see you in the next blog.

Des Allen

For Categories to show in your Blog Home Page you must first post a blog to it. So:

1) Prepare a brief Blog
2) Prepare a Category Name
3) Go to Add New (Under Posts)
4) Create your post
5) Add New Category
6) Allocate the Category to the Post
7) Publish

Hope This Helps

Des