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Grace Murray Hopper
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Inspirational Links

Over the years I have formed many close working and personal friendships with business associates who provide services and products which may also be of value to you. Like many of my clients and friends you may also find the following list of inspiring people and websites of help and assistance to you.

PLEASE NOTE - To access the link to a website, click on the orange heading above the profile.  

Business Services and Resources

    Bright Ideas Business Development and Marketing
    Bright Ideas is a business development and marketing consultancy with a ‘can do and let's do’ attitude. Sandra Bullon - principal of Bright Ideas is an experienced, approachable, caring and resourceful business development and marketing consultant who will help you to identify, develop and then implement those bright ideas that will strengthen and grow your business.

    Healing Wings
    At Healing Wings you will discover the natural way to health & wellbeing through a variety of professional services to promote mental, emotional, physical, & spiritual balance. Remedial Massage, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Astrology and Angels Readings are some of the treatments used for Holistic Healings.

    Hilton Consulting Group Pty Ltd
    'PEOPLE ARE YOUR GREATEST ASSET' The Hilton Consulting Group provides a complete package of recruitment and staff selection services. Roger Hilton is the principal consultant and is highly regarded for his totally professional and ethical approach in working with both his clients and candidates.

    Mark Horton
    Mark Horton is one person who exemplifies in every way, how having the right attitude will help us all to overcome the many obstacles that we face in life. His book 'Power to Choose Challenge to Change' is a great read and well worth the investment, and his conference and key note presentations are inspirational.

    McKenzie Carrick Australia
    McKenzie Carrick Australia is a firm of dedicated, passionate professionals who are experts in the field of talent management. Recognised Australia wide for their skill in attitudinal and behavioural change, individually and at the organisational level, they have assisted many companies for twenty years to be more effective, productive and profitable. Organisational psychologists assist with selecting the right people for roles, while our learning staff enable professional development through quality tailored programs across a broad range of business needs. Customer confidence as well as company culture surveys are a particular area of expertise, as is consulting across a wide range of people issues.

    enflexion Pty Ltd
    enflexion designs unique easy to use websites that are managed by the simple to use Sliced Bread Content Management Solution. 'A Gift Of Inspiration' has been designed and developed by enflexion.

Inspirational Products and Services

    Bella Italia Tours
    Inspire your senses and spirit, savour the delights of a rich Italian lifestyle, culture, history, food and wine with a relaxed and intrepid group of adventurers. Great for first time travellers or those with an unquenchable passion for authentic Bella Italia. Find out more about these inspiring tours by visiting the Bella Italia website.

    Clarendon Forest Retreat
    Clarendon Forest Retreat is the perfect setting for that unique and special inspirational event. Situated on 1000 acres and nestled in the Kiwarrak State Forest and National Park on the Mid North Coast of NSW. South of Taree and north west of Forster, Clarendon Forest Retreat is just over 3 hours drive north from Sydney - you will be inspired by the atmosphere, the scenery and the service .

    Dr Paddi Lund and Building The Happiness Centred Business
    Dr Paddi Lund is a remarkable and inspirational dentist who has adopted a very unique approach to running his dental clinic, which is based in a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. Paddi is the author of 'Building The Happiness Centred Business' a book which is a must read for anyone in business. The book tells the story of how Paddi changed his dental clinic with some amazing results for his clients (customers) as well as his team and himself. I highly recommend a visit to his website to discover more about Paddi Lund and the other services he offers. 'Building The Happiness Centred Business' can be purchased via the website.

    Inspirational Posters - Surround Yourself with Beauty
    Designed and printed with you in mind, you can customize your own poster to reflect your positive thoughts and quotes or purchase our standard designs. The first 250 people to visit us will receive a FREE 9x12 Poster. Remind yourself of the beauty that is always around you. Beautiful enough for the home or office.

    Marcome - Celestial Music
    Marcome (pronounced Marco-may) is a Canadian singer songwriter. Celestially voiced, she blends English lyrics with a unique wordless language that bring us into a vibrant and atmospheric universe. Marcome carefully and artistically fuses together certain middle-eastern sounds with jazz style vocals and blends new world beat music with new age music. Her remarkable debut album Seven Seas went around the world for years now and her new upbeat Elixir River of Soul is now riding the waves.

    Tom OToole and The Beechworth Bakery
    Tom O'Toole is the charismatic and inspirational 'Baker' from Beechworth who has built his bakery into one of Australia's greatest retail success stories. The Beechworth Bakery has become the highest earning single retail bakery in Australia and Tom happily shares his secrets of success on his video 'Making Dough with Tom O'Toole'. It is a sensational and inspiring video and well worth the investment.

    Youth Motivation - Monique Howat
    Monique Howat is a youth motivator and the founder of Confident Girls and Guys. She presents self-esteem and character building workshops at elementary and high schools in and around the Toronto area in Canada. Monique offers training on the principles of self-esteem, public speaking, coaching for parents or teens, leadership for women and consultation services for at-risk youth programming.

Inspirational Websites and Newsletters

    Achieve! 60-Second Nuggets of Inspiration
    Join Steve Brunkhorst, professional success coach and motivational author, for the stories of your life - a glimpse into your desires, hopes, and dreams. Achieve! is a powerful mini-ezine that will inspire and motivate you to higher levels of personal and professional achievement.

    Entertaining Angels with Jaye Lewis
    Jaye Lewis is an award winning writer and contributing author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Jaye lives happily with her family in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and is on the last stage of re-editing her book Entertaining Angels. I encourage you to visit Jaye's website to read some of her wonderful inspirational stories.

    Heartwarmers
    Free inspirational publications that enrich your life. Start your day with an uplifting short story emailed to you every weekday about strength, hope, courage and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.

    Inspirational Quotes
    Famous inspirational quotes and sayings to inspire you and start your day on a positive note.

    Mind Synergy - Goal Achievement
    Brian Leaning-Mizen director of Mind Synergy is dedicated to helping anyone who says; 'I want to be more successful' to achieve that goal! Brian Leaning-Mizen is known affectionately to his many clients and friends, as The Guru of Goal Setting. Visit his website and click on FREE to subscribe to his powerful newsletter - Strategies for Successful People.

    MotivateUs - Start Your Day With Something Positive!
    Motivating Moments strives to continually offer words of encouragement to help give you the self confidence and self esteem you need for motivation and inspiration. Personal growth and success are within all of us. Read what we have to offer and you will see that nothing is impossible at MotivateUs.com

    Phil Evans and People Stuff
    Phil Evans produces PeopleStuff a regular weekly inspirational e-newsletter and you can subscribe by visiting his website. There are also lots of other inspirational resources on the website that you can access.

    Positive News Network
    Dave Boufford or 'Mr Positive' as he likes to be known - produces a great inspirational newsletter as well as a regular e-mail of wonderful quotes to help you start or finish your day on a positive note. Visit his website to look at all the other resources and services he provides.

    Ripplemaker
    Riplemaker is dedicated to promoting acts of kindness and publishes three different e-newsletters. 'Starfish' is a daily mailing of original stories by our writers. Some of them have published hard-cover books which are available at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com. 'Sand Dollar' is mailed 3 times each week to subscribers who like Christian related stories and spirit lifting articles. 'Driftwood' is a Saturday publication of 6 original poems. You can to subscribe to any or all of these from the subscription page on the web site.

    The Thursday File
    An online folio of information which is emailed each week for pure enjoyment, this includes uplifting thoughts and quotes. To subscribe to The Thursday File please visit their website.

    Wisdom-and-Philosophy.com
    What is life about? A very big question! Phil Booker has spent 25 years pondering this question. He has checked out other people’s views and to his surprise they all had one main theme - to be HAPPY and everything positive comes out of being happy. Visit Phil's website and sign up for his free Wisdom4U newsletter, by clicking on the link above.

    Your Life Support System
    Steve Goodier is the founder and publisher of Your Life Support System, an e-zine with 150,000 subscribers since 1999. Through this daily e-mail newsletter, he sends out hope and encouragement to a worldwide community of readers. He is also the author of numerous books about personal development, motivation, inspiration, and making needed life changes. Visit Steve's website and sign up for his free inspirational newsletter by clicking on the link above.

    Your Seeds of Success
    Your Seeds for Success is an innovative, twice-monthly Successzine published by Fran Briggs that helps you live a happier, healthier and wealthier life. You'll enjoy exciting issues sent directly to your e-mail box on the 1st and 15th of every month. To subscribe click on the link above.

Inspiring Writers

    Carol Roach
    Carol Roach is an author, freelance writer and publisher of Storytime Tapestry E-zine. Angels Watching Over Me is her latest novel and is the inspirational story of a courageous young girl who leaves her home in rural Canada to travel to a large Canadian City over a thousand miles away. Though much hardship awaits this young girl, she overcomes all odds with the protection of her angels and and her love for family.

    Kathleene S. Baker
    Kathy is a wonderful inspirational author who is a significant and supportive contributor to A Gift Of Inspiration. Her stories and poems are regularly featured on many websites and in numerous newsletters and publications throughout the world. You can view more of Kathy's stories and poems by visiting her website.

    Kathy Whirity
    Kathy Whirity, who describes herself as a writer by heart, is a newspaper columnist who shares the realities of family life in a humorous, touching way. Her column, "Kathy's Kaleidoscope" is published in Village View newspaper and FrankTalk magazine. Her "From the Heart" column appears weekly in the Mt. Greenwood newspaper.

    Michael Smith - Hearts and Humour
    Michael Smith is a part-time writer and full-time manager in the telecommunications industry. Michael often wonders how he ended up where he is today. Over the years he has moved more times than he wants to remember. It was a journey that took him from his native Nova Scotia in Canada to within a few miles of the New York. He loves to write humour, but believes his true calling is writing from the heart and in the importance of sharing a smile, a wave, a kind word, and a tear. Michael is not a professional in things that touch the heart; he just writes about things that touched his heart and hopes it reaches out to touch another heart.

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