Hello again and welcome to another Own Your Life Club Newsletter!
It's been an exciting week here in Adelaide! The annual Christmas Pageant, highly-anticipated and much-loved by all the kids of South Australia, meandered through the streets of Adelaide on Saturday 8 November. A South Australian institution and icon, this event traditionally heralds the start of the Christmas season.
First held on 18 November 1933 with just 8 floats and 4 bands, the event has grown to be the one of the largest pageants of its kind in the world with 84 different floats and numerous bands, clowns and musicians taking part, covering a route of 3.35 km. The event celebrated 75 years this year!
The first Christmas Pageant in 1933 attracted 200,000 spectators - and on Saturday 325,000 lined the streets to watch this wonderful, colourful event. Thankfully the forecast rain (welcome as it would have been in the drought) failed to arrive, with just a few spots falling.
This magical parade makes the streets of Adelaide come alive with all the spirit and joy of Christmas, bringing smiles to the faces of spectators of all ages. Once the Christmas Pageant and Father Christmas have arrived in town, everyone knows Christmas is just around the corner!
Here's a taste of the colour and magic of the 2008 Christmas Pageant!
Today's success tip comes from John Buchanan.
Creating Winning Teams
Celebrated as the most successful Australian cricket coach in history, John Buchanan says that creating a winning team is about putting simple procedures in place.
“In cricket there are precise goalposts you need to pass along the way if you want to win, which business can replicate. These start with getting the fundamentals right, which include selecting the right talent, creating a culture of longevity, sharing the vision with the team and constantly improving your systems and procedures. If you get these basics right from the outset everything else falls into place.”
We have a special gift for you today, a half-hour Audio Interview with John Buchanan - where you will discover:
- How to build a team that produces results.
- How to keep your team members motivated to keep producing results.
- The primary role of a leader so you can lead with direction.
- Some of the problematic areas of leadership that can cause your team to fail.
- How to place realistic expectations on your team so they can achieve their goals and become champions.
- Vital skills you will need to be the most effective leader and skills that will get your team to respond to you in the best way.
You can listen to this free Audio Interview with John Buchanan by clicking on the Play arrow below or you can download the file to listen on your mp3 player whenver you like! A fine example of the incredible content available for you to download as a member of Own Your Life Club!
Shelley Taylor-Smith
Here's the fourth in our series featuring the amazing people we met in Sydney in August. Shelley Taylor-Smith is a familiar name to sports enthusiasts, in particular anyone interested in the world of swimming.
Shelley Taylor-Smith has overcome extreme hardships to reach the top of her field and now uses her life stories to inspire others in her public speaking career.
Shelley was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1961. At an early age, she developed an enthusiastic passion for swimming and would often fall asleep at night still wearing her bathers. At a time when Shelley suffered from crippling scoliosis and was described as having ‘no natural talent’ for swimming her biggest fan, her father, died from cancer. Before he died he told her: ‘No one knows you like you know yourself. You’ll wearthe green and gold and be a world champion one day’.
In 1990, Shelley won her first world marathon swimming championship title. Since then she has set 15 world records; scored 51 first places in international marathon swims; received two world championship gold medals; been the first Western Australian to swim the English
Channel solo; won the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim five times; and been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records twice – among many other achievements.
Behind the scenes of her success and fame, Shelley was faced with numerous struggles and hardships, including partial paralysis, several major and minor car accidents, a breast cancer scare, a collapsed marriage, a financially devastating situation that left her cleaning toilets to survive, and two torrid battles with chronic fatigue syndrome.
What helped Shelley through on every occasion was what she calls her Champion Mindset®.
Today, Shelley is a powerful and inspiring motivational keynote speaker, international best-selling author, business trainer and success coach. A truly remarkable and lovely lady!
Shelley Taylor-Smith has several inspirational and fascinating Audio and Printed items in Own Your Life Club. Click here to listen to her fantastic Audio Presentation 'Inside the Champion Mindset'. Enjoy!
Until next time, here's to your Success,
Richard and Julie
Creators of *Own Your Life Club*
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