FMQ’s

FMQ 508 An Important Question Why and How Often Do You Check Your Progress

August 12, 2025

You’ll learn:

Why too much checking can destroy momentum

Why not checking enough can cost you time and energy

The hidden fears behind your review habits (fear of failure or fear of success?)

A simple mindset shift to help you course-correct without self-judgment

How to schedule reviews that actually work for you

👉 This is your wake-up call to review with intention, stay aligned with your goals, and grow with purpose.

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FMQ 507 Standing is not An Option and is NOT OK

August 5, 2025

Discover why consistent progress is essential for self-improvement, confidence, and mental well-being. Learn how applying small daily shifts in mindset and behaviour leads to lasting transformation—without overwhelm. This is real, doable self-growth.

🎯 Takeaways

Standing still = slipping back
1% daily growth = exponential results
The myth of “maintaining”
Personal development isn’t a sprint—it’s an intention
Progress in one area ripples through the rest of your life

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FMQ 506 A Respectful Look at the Views of Others

July 29, 2025

ver wondered how someone can hold a belief so different from yours — even the total opposite — and still be right? Well, in this five-minute (ish!) ramble, we explore one of NLP’s most important presuppositions: respect for another person’s model of the world.

We all build our own “maps” of reality based on our experiences. But what happens when we genuinely listen to someone else’s? Can we learn from it? Can it balance, challenge, or even evolve our own beliefs?

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FMQ 505 Me and the Podcasts I like and Learn From

July 22, 2025

My Favourite Podcasts

Hey! Just sharing some podcasts I really love. I think they’re pretty popular, but if you haven’t checked them out, give them a listen.

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FMQ 504 I’m Stupid I don’t understand – They’re stupid they don’t understand me

July 15, 2025

In this episode, we dive into:

Why it’s your responsibility to be understood
How feeling misunderstood (or stupid) is a communication challenge, not a personal flaw
Simple ways to change the way you speak so your message lands
A mindset shift to stop blaming others (or yourself) when communication fails
The power of reflection and “musing over a G&T” to grow your emotional intelligence

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FMQ 503 How to Know If you Or Someone Else Has Changed

July 8, 2025

n this five-minute muse, we dive into one of the simplest ways to know if you’ve truly changed… and most of us miss it.

You’ll explore the power of behaviour as the only real measure of change — and why we often forget the progress we’ve made. It’s time to reflect, reset, and maybe even celebrate the changes you didn’t know you’d already made.

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FMQ 502 I’m Weird What About You

July 1, 2025

I’m ‘Special’ and Very Wierd and very proud about it too – Are you?

This 5-minute quickie is from the video I recently put out on my very random newsletter in which I ask, encourage you to show your Specialness, your Weidness and make this little old planet Earth a nicer place to live.

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FMQ 501 What You Didn’t Know Back Then

June 24, 2025

Here is a little something I like to use with my clients, and it seems to give them an understanding as to why we sometimes hold ourselves back from moving forward.

Please come with me and get a clearer understanding of how we can utilise this to move forward through difficult times.

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FMQ 500 How To Change Quickly

June 17, 2025

Do you want to change the way you feel or act?

Let’s see if we can find a way to change either of those quickly. I feel we forget to notice how it is now and how you would like it to be. It ends up being one or the other, but not both.

So, in five minutes or so, let me share my thoughts and share a ‘how to’.

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FMQ 499 Keeping On Target To Success

June 10, 2025

How Do You Know? Do you actually have a plan?

Do we measure from where we were to where we are now, and how much further have we got to go?

And how often do we need to check on our progress?

Let’s answer these questions and a couple more in this 5-minute muse.

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