Here we deep into the holiday season: …They say holidays are a good way to leave your troubles behind. I’d go one step further; they are an opportunity to leave your everyday life behind and to give your mind a rest. Sometimes we can get overly caught up in our minds, lives, jobs, issues and our relationships. A little space, distance and quiet will work wonders. Whether you’re going abroad or staying at home, take that time and space to get away from your life story. Put your life story on hold for a week or two and relax. The mind is like an engine – give it a rest and let it cool down. You will find that it and your life function much smoother that way whatever your circumstances.
Still Stressed: Finding it hard to unwind? I have a few tools to help you. My free ten minute relaxation meditation will help your mind calm and help you re-centre yourself. It’s ideal if you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed by what’s going on in your life and in your mind. You can listen to it on or download it from the resources pages on www.rasaru.com if you want to go one step further then check out my Become who you are the books, CDs and MP3s page.
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading coach, motivational speaker and author of The Gift of Inner Success
With Rasheed Ogunlaru & Helen Parkins: 10am-4.15pm British Library,London NW1, £60
When I started in business i knew little about running a small business. Fortunately I did know a lot about marketing me and influencing others. It served me well. Within a year I’d appeared on national TV, spoken at a major business conference and made key contacts. Today with around 4.5million business in the UK your ability to stand out as a small business owner is essential. As a small business owner the chances are that you may have little or no marketing budget. If so then you must “Be Your Own Brand” (booking details and info below).
Be your own Brand is a one day event for sole traders, consultants,small business owners keen to boost the profit, performance and profile. It will help you become clear about your brand, your values and your customers and to communicate with them in a way that will attract business. It will also help you look at ways of working collectively, collaboratively to gain business, profile, opportunities and to punch above your weight. If you are keen to write or appear in media (like i did)it will help you with that too.
Be Your Own Brand
“A unique one-day course to take you / your business to the next level”
Speakers: Rasheed Ogunlaru; be your brand, powerful communications & networking, promoting you. Helen Parkins; forging partnerships, joint initiatives, rules and regs, avoiding pitfalls.
Benefits of attending / areas covered:
* Develop a powerful sense of purpose and of your brand
* Become clear about your vision, values and mission
* Personify your product
* Become clear about your market, your customers and their wants/needs
* Be clear, confident and compelling in your communications
* Precise marketing: approaching the right customers directly
* Network effectively, develop strong partnerships and possibilities
* Develop brand loyalty
* Promote yourself as an expert in your industry or locality and in the media.
Who should attend? Small business owners, sole traders, freelancers, consultants.
Place: British Library Business & IP Centre, 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB (nearest stations: Kings Cross - 3mins walk. Euston - 5mins walk)
Cost: £60 (lunch not included - but available in the library’s cafe/ restaurant)
How to Book: email rasheed @ rasaru.com to book your place. When booking please include:
* Names of attendee(s)
* Name & type of business you run / are planning
* Email
* Phone
* If you have a British Library Reader Pass or not
* How you heard about the event
Event dates 2010
10.am-4.15pm Tue 21 Sept (registration at 9.45am)
10.am-4.15pm Thurs 25 Nov (registration at 9.45am)
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading coach and motivational speaker. His clients include entrepreneurs and entertainers. He is author of The Gift of Inner Success and Co-author of A Zest for Business. He coaches individuals, small business owners and within organisations and runs inspiring workshops and talks. The is a leading specialist in helping people find fulfilment in all areas of their lives and careers
Join me tomorrow evening 6.30-8.30pm for The Mind Spa at Molton House, private members club, London W1.
It’s an evening for professionals, business owners and those looking for peace and progress in all aspects of their lives.
It’s really an opportunity to connect to yourself: we have such busy minds and such busy lives. It will help you to relax, chill our and take stock. There’ll be a short relaxation meditation led by my guest and friend, yoga teacher to execs, Thierry Giunta. They’ll also be an opportunity to connect with others; many networking occasions can be soul-less. By connecting more deeply with ourselves we tend to be more open to others. The evening is an ideal space to make the kind of contacts that may be useful for us personally, professionally and business. I will also be doing a very short exercise to help you focus on personal and professional priorities.
Tomorrow is attracting a fair amount of media interest and the attendees also include a number of people from healing professions as well as some who are in corporate life or changing career. If that appeals then join me and our host Jessica Huie of JHPR for a lovely evening.
The Mind Spa
“Connect & progress”
@ Molton House,
43 South Molton Street | London W1K 5RS
6.30-8.30pm Tue 13 July 2010
Last year two film-makers asked me to work with David, one of thousands of gifted Britons made redundant due to the global economic downturn. My job; to get his career back on track- here’s what happened. Top Tips below:
Throughout the UK and indeed across the world many people are losing their jobs. One of these people may be you or a loved one. In the past redundancy was rare. Now it’s common place - it may not just happen once but two to five times in your career. Whilst redundancy can be devastating it can be the birthplace of you finding a life and career that you really feel happy with. When I run my workshops over 90% say it proved to be a blessing. However it takes time. And if you or a loved one has, is or may face redundancy then a few tips will help you to use this opportunity to create a profession from your passion.
1. Give yourself time and space to be, breathe, reflect and even grieve. It is a major event and taking this time will help you move forward for more happily.
2. Find out exactly what the redundancy will mean: and your options / entitlements. Now is not a time to be shy and retiring and you need to get what you’re entitled. Once you do this list and identify your monthly budget and outgoings and set a ‘survival budget’. If you get a redundancy sum budget and use it wisely it may take months to settle into your next role.
3. Seek support and start to network: from friends and loved ones - and professionals in / beyond work who can help you. Above all share it with those you trust and love. You may also find that there are professionals in your circle who can help you move forward. Don’t suffer in silence
4. Take time: to consider what you really want to do next in your life and career and follow your heart. Redundancy is your opportunity for you to really identify what you are passionate about and to make a profession out of it.
5. Practicals: Brush up your CV and your interview skills, identify all your strengths and skills. Ensure you stand out. Include a powerful personal statement at the top. Make sure that it highlights your accomplishments and keep it to two pages maximum.
6. Get hold of my ‘Moving ahead in your career free guide’ - visit my resources page on my website www.rasaru.com . It will help you focus on what you want in a job
7. Write a list of all the people you know who can help you (inc contacts, friends, former colleagues and who they know). Call or make appointments to meet and chat with anyone who may be able to help you. Less than 50% of jobs are advertised. Increasing numbers of people find their new careers throughout networking. Explore how you can help them too, life is merely changing and exchanging energy.
8. When applying for jobs: keep spoken/ written correspondence clear, crisp, concise and captivating. Be personal, professional, passionate and prompt. Always shine and smile. These elements will help you stand out from the crowd. Being you is key.
9. Spread the net: include internet, networking, agencies, contacts as well as newspapers for your job search.
10. Tell people: You probably know 200 people or more tell them what you’re looking for…together you may find it… It’s a small world.
Finally take it in steady steps. Know when to work and when to rest. Learn from setbacks and disappointments and know that these will make you even sharper and stronger over time. You may find, like myself, that redundancy actually becomes the moment that you move from a job to the very reason that you are here – utilising all your skills and talents.
Hurry folks, it’s your last chance to book onto “3 Steps to Success to Business Success in 2010″ a free one day workshop I’m running this Wed 23rd June at Central Hall, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, SW1H 9NH for Business Link London.
The event is ideal for you if your a small business owner or sole trader keen to move further ahead. The event will help:
1) Develop clarity and a sharper focus on gaining and maintaining customers
2) Boost belief, confidence, efficiency and motivation
3) Develop a crisp, clear and practical plan of action to enhance your finance, marketing and operations.
To book simply click here onto Business Link’s site:
3 Steps to Business Success with Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading coach and motivational speaker. His clients include entertainers and entrepreneurs. He is Co-author of A Zest for Business and the Business Coach partner of the British Library’s Business & IP Centre
“If we were to stop this game of hide and seek - who would we be?”
It’s quite possible that life can be completely bypassed in the search for happiness, fulfilment, wisdom, wealth - and even in the search for self, love or spirituality.
What would your life be if you were to stop seeking to find completion in any place, person, post or possession? It is easy to become possessed by these things and by the thoughts of what they may bring. It is easy to get lost in what has been, might have been, should have been, yet might be… and by what you’d like to be and see.
But what if the search were to fall away? Who in fact is seeking anyway? What is the problem that needs to be solved or indeed resolved?
Where is the line between you and me? Where is the divide between what you seek and what you see? Where is the line between what you experience personally and what you understand to be happening outside and globally?
Are you who you think you are - or are you what resides below, beyond and between those thoughts. Ironically by going in search of who is looking may be more illuminating. What if you were the hider as well as the seeker?
If these questions resonate with you you may find that Seekers Corner does too. It will especially resonate if you’re keen to let the questions and need for answers to dissolve. It was founded by a good friend of mine who went in search of the answers to these questions and found nothing - and perhaps it is nothing rather than something that is where you may wish to look. It may be the one place you haven’t looked. Don’t be surprised if you don’t find what you’re looking for : )
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading coach, motivational speaker and author of The Gift of Inner Success
Trying to change another person? It is faster and more effective to change your perspective.
Yesterday I met with a good friend of mine who was somewhat displeased with the actions and poor and sporadic communications from one of their friends. Understandably he found the situation frustrating and annoying - especially as this has been an ongoing problem.
Perhaps this scenario has or is happening to you. That you’re annoyed about how somebody else is. Or perhaps that you want them to act or be somehow different to how they are. There are really two issues here:
1. Know what your standards and values are and to communicate them clearly and kindly to those concerned
so that they know what their ‘contract’ with you is. It is a two way street so they should feel free to do the same and you hopefully agree and live by this code.
2. If someone continually does not meet your standards / values or ‘contract’ then it is ultimately an issue for you and not them. People are at where they are at - for that time in their lives at least. It may be unrealistic to expect a second division footballer to play to a premiership standard. In other words it may be that they are unable and or unwilling to be how you want them to be. If this is the case then you must decide what you want to do - live with it or move on.
These issues will arise for almost of us at one time or another. In fact it will arise many times in life in personal, romantic, working, business, family and social relationships. If this is arising for you now then welcome the frustration that you feel. Listen to it’s root. What is it telling you. If you have done step 1 to communicate this and if there is no progress it may time to downscale or even move on from that relationship.
If you do part ways do it warmly, kindly and wishing the other well. It may quite rightly be time for new possibilities and people more apt to where you are both at, or heading to, to come into your lives. in this way life is fluent.
But when all is said and done it is wiser to change your perspective than to try and change another person. Changing the first of these only is within your gift.
Successful businesses have a clear vision, belief in who they are and what they do and take focused-flexible action. Yet many do not achieve their potential by failing to know where they’re heading or how to get there.
This inspiring and practical Business Link event run by leading coach / motivational speaker, Rasheed Ogunlaru will help you clarify and achieve your goals and stay ahead of the competition in 2010.
This workshop will enable you to:
* Clarify and strengthen your vision, values and goals
* Identify the strengths, skills and resources you have as well as what you need to build on
* Identify where you want to be in 3-5 years time
* Map out the steps required to achieve your goals (long to short term)
* Achieve greater inspiration, motivation, focus, effectiveness, confidence and passion in business
* Take action, stay on track and coach yourself to success
Who should attend? Small business owners, sole traders.
Place: Central Hall, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, SW1H 9NH
Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading life & business coach, motivational speaker and corporate coach. His clients include entrepreneurs, entertainers and organisations. He is author The Gift of Inner Success and A Zest for Business. He regularly appears in the media and is the Business Coach partner of the British Library’s Business & IP Centre. His mission is to help people ‘become who they are’ by embracing life and their own possibilities - from within.
Be your own Brand - Wed 26 May 2010 British Library 10am-4.15pm
When I started in business I knew little about enterprise but lots about PR, promotion, presenting, customer service and connecting with people. Little did I know it but these are vital if you’re a sole trader / small business owner. As a result I appeared on national TV, as a speaker at the Business Start Up Show and attracted good clients and big opportunities within a year of setting up - all on a shoestring budget.
Are you a small business owner, sole trader or freelancer? Do you have little or no by way PR / marketing budget? If so then you too must ‘Be your own Brand’. Join me, Rasheed Ogunlaru and lawyer-turned-business adviser, Helen Parkins for this special workshop which will help you:
* Develop a strong brand and clear mission
* Become clear, crisp and compelling - to attract more of business
* Develop powerful links, partnerships and joint ventures
* Establish yourself as an expert in your field - inc tips on attracting media coverage
* Understand where your business is coming from and how to get more of it.
Be your own Brand Price £65 inc lunch and refreshments. To book email me rasheed@rasaru.com
I was just watching BBC London News and was thrilled to hear that little Harvey Parry, whose story we featured on The Rasheed Show (my pilot TV show) is on his way back from the USA… with new prosthetic legs. This is fantastic news and is down to the tireless efforts of Harvey, his family and fiends and media support including the BBC coverage. Wonderful news and well done to the Harvey Parry Appeal Fund and everyone who has supported them
Leading life coach and inner fulfilment speaker, Rasheed Ogunlaru
explores how to balance being true to your ‘self' with finding a
‘meaningful' life path in today's material world. [read more / hear extracts]
