Kicking off the series of podcasts all about 'Self help Classics', put together by @Tom Butler-Bowdon, is James Allen with As a Man Thinketh.

He is not the first to say that we are can be the master of our thoughts but he says it eloquently and is often quoted.

Listen to this short introduction to the book which I hope will either move you to read it, or if you already know you can master your thoughts you move onto 'how can I do that?'.

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Ready to listen to the latest episode of The Leadership Woman podcast?

I have put my head above the packing cases for a while to give you an update of what is happening in my life and introduce a new series looking at self help books over the years. I am calling it the GOLDMINE series and I wish I could coin a different phrase other than 'self-help' because that implies we are below par. However, all of the books I will talk about will come from a more positive perspective of unlocking possibilities to be even more capable and successful!

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Episode 60 of The Leadership Woman podcast and I am thrilled to have interviewed one of my mentors and a great coach, Ed DeCosta.

I met him in 2012 when he was working as a Faculty member for the John Maxwell Team and even though we haven't met for about 7 years, he was so easy to talk to and we had a good conversation. So good in fact that I had to break this into a few podcasts!

Here is the beginning where he talks about being called 'smart' at school and being upset that that meant more work not less!:-)

For the people in the Aspiring Leaders group, this is the "Plan the Work: Work the Plan" guy that I promised you.