The One Ingredient That Will Ignite Your Influence

by Karena Thomas Internet and Businesses Online, Self Improvement, Communications
Here’s one thing I know about you. You have the potential - right now - to be a masterful influencer. Don’t believe me? Think about a sumptuous, warm sticky date pudding, with a dollop of creamy vanilla ice cream. With the right ingredients and recipe, you can make a cake that prompts people to physically drool, get a fork, and step over their own mother to shove that sugary goodness right into their face. Similarly, with the right tools and education, it is possible to ...
Read More

Content Marketing Plan for Beginners

by Karena Thomas Business, Internet and Businesses Online, Communications
For every minute spent organising, an hour is earned. Annonymous Launching my own online business this year has taught me the value of being SUPER organised. While I don't pretend to have totally nailed my ability to plan and distribute content, I have certainly come across tools and tips that have helped me progress on my journey. One of the biggest challenges I am currently overcoming is the OVERWHELMING amount of ideas for content that swim around in my head. It can feel almost ...
Read More

FEAR: How to stop running and start using it.

by Karena Thomas Internet and Businesses Online, Self Improvement, Communications
"If want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” Thomas Jefferson. One thing I’ve realised about building a business, is that it shines a light directly on undealt with fear and murky beliefs that are not in line with what we want to create in the world. Challenges arise all the time, which call us to step up and become someone greater, more courageous and committed. The best way to speed up your results is to determine ...
Read More

Tired of ‘figuring out’ your purpose? Try this instead.

by Karena Thomas Internet and Businesses Online, Self Improvement, Communications
Want to know one of the BIGGEST LIES we could ever subscribe to? When I figure out my purpose, THEN I’ll become a leader… When I figure out my purpose, THEN I’ll become successful… When I figure out my purpose, THEN I’ll start sharing my ideas and making an impact on the world…                         This whole notion of ‘figuring out our your purpose’ is very seductive – because it makes sense right? I ...
Read More

Is your comfort zone is killing you? Here’s how to tell.

by Karena Thomas Business, Internet and Businesses Online, Self Improvement
Is your comfort zone is killing you? Here’s how to tell. Do you suffer from the following symptoms? You trudge to work day everyday with a feeling of anxiety and dread. You sit in your cubicle bored out of your brain. Your micro-managing boss doesn't trust you to do your job, so there's not real growth for you. You go through the motions day after day, week after week. Months slip by without you feeling any real sense of achievement or progress in your work. You ...
Read More

Does your copywriting suck? Here’s one way to fix it.

by Karena Thomas Internet and Businesses Online, Communications, Writing and Speaking
Does your copywriting suck? Here’s one way to fix it. Don’t panic. It’s going to be ok.  Maybe you are like me - a brand spanking new online business owner, navigating the choppy waters of copywriting, blogging and online advertising? Navigating… or should I say, trying not to sink…. ahem. With ZERO experience in anything to do with copywriting, marketing or advertising, I have spent the last week trawling the internet in search of copywriting gold that was going to help me improve my ...
Read More

How To Quit Stalling & Start Showing Up For Yourself

by Karena Thomas Self Improvement
How To Quit Stalling & Start Showing Up For Yourself. Perhaps you can relate to the following situation? In the past, I was someone who had brilliant ideas, was great at talking about all the things I wanted to do and then did very little to actually to realise them. These unrealised ideas weighed me down and depleted my self-esteem. My confidence in myself to ACTUALLY follow through was deflated like an old, flaccid balloon hiding down the side of a cupboard from ...
Read More

How to Reframe Your Emotions and Get Stuff Done

by Karena Thomas Self Improvement, Communications
How to Reframe Your Emotions and Get Stuff Done Humans are incredible. We were born with an in built operating system designed to help us grow and progress in life, and speaks it to us everyday in the form of emotions. From an early age though, we have been taught to apply certain meanings to specific emotions, labeling them as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. If an emotion feels ‘good’, we want more of it. If an emotion feels ‘bad’, we want to ...
Read More

The Habit of Complaining: 6 Steps to Kicking the Addiction

by Karena Thomas Relationships, Self Improvement, Communications
Picture this... You're at a wedding, dressed to the nines, having the time of your life catching up with old friends and laughing about the dumb crap you got up to in High School. The wedding band strikes up a song... it takes you and your friends right back to being teenagers again. You cut loose on the dance floor, feeling muscles in your body that you, quite frankly, forgot where even there. The Time Warp... ah, classic... As the song finishes, a ...
Read More