76 – It is important to enjoy your work and your daily life.


BY STAN KONTOS

We can learn much wisdom from others who have discovered what is the special formula that brings satisfaction.

I spent some time with a wise man recently who had retired from his world wide corporate role after over 35 years (travelling the world). He had to “rediscover” himself and reinvent his career (and hence his life) and he divided it into four key areas:

  1. Choose a career or occupation that challenges you mentally. It is important to grow in your thought life.
  2. Ensure this vocation is aligned with your purpose in life. This will bring you meaning each day.
  3. Retain autonomy. Everyone likes to be in control of their day and year.
  4. Ensure there are no negative people in your environment. People help make the experience of work enjoyable.

So in four key statements we have the secret to a healthy life transition and an enjoyable work environment.

I encourage you to sit down and reflect on your life and work reflecting on these four key areas. If any of them require work, address them. If you cannot achieve all four of them then you may need to restructure your life so that you can.

If you need any assistance, do consider coaching & mentoring with the SOL Results team.

We look forward to seeing you at our final Next Level Breakfast of the year on Wednesday 9 December 2020.




As South Australia’s foremost authority on “Peak Life Performance” and “Leadership Psychology”, Stan has a passion for the development of Human Potential through the use of Rapid Change Technologies.   Stan is a prolific reader of books and material on self empowerment and has attended numerous programs around the world on personal development, management, marketing, public speaking, and wealth creation. He is a worldwide accredited NLP Trainer (Neurolinguistic Programming).

His areas of passion include:

  • Coaching: Business, Executive and Personal
  • Mentoring: Leaders, Managers and Management teams
  • Therapy for rapid improvements in stress and personal blocks
  • Leadership Development
  • Life Enhancing Seminar Programs teaching Success Strategies and Personal Empowerment

Stan is an entrepreneur with business interests in various states across Australia.

Stan focuses on continuous and never ending improvement of himself and his teams of partners and associates as well as selfless contribution to others. He is an inspiring and motivating speaker, author, coach, and entrepreneur. He desires to expand people’s lives and to expand his charitable quests.

Best wishes to you as you live a life of passion, purpose and peace as an open minded progressive human being.

Stan is considered to be one’s “ultimate” life and business coach.

BY STAN KONTOS

This week I’d like to share with you the importance of investing sufficient time each week studying and working on ourselves.  

Every human being (including you and I) have weaknesses which need to be worked on with the view to overcoming them, as well as strengths which need to be further developed into a gift and given liberally to our workplaces, family and our friends. 

Let’s begin with weaknesses. These are revealed when we feel or express negative, unresourceful emotions:

  • Anger – at someone or something
  • Sadness – depression and feeling low (other than grief from loss)
  • Hurt – especially troublesome if it happens regularly because someone said something, or did not say something
  • Guilt – the inability to process self forgiveness from mistakes
  • Fear – also manifested as angst, anxiety and feeling stressed

We all have weaknesses and if we want to achieve all our inspired goals in life, we need to work on and eventually eliminate weaknesses. Weakness resides deep inside our heart and reveal themselves by coming to the surface of our mind as thoughts and unresourceful emotions. One of the personal prayers I say (almost) daily is “God reveal my weaknesses, cleanse my heart and mind,and renew a right spirit within me”. When I say this, it is incredible how a thought comes to the surface of my mind revealing to me what it is I need to work upon. As we grow each week by working on and overcoming weakness, we attain more inner peace and tap into more inner wisdom. This inner wisdom helps us make better decisions and brings clearer foresight in life, business, and career. We become more effective and are able to add more value to others both personally and professionally.  

Every human being on earth has weaknesses to work upon and overcome. It is this realisation that keeps a person grounded.  Happy people know that happiness comes from constant personal and spiritual progress, that no human being is perfect and the secret to living is in giving. 

Now let’s go onto strengths. We all can get better at almost anything if we have the right teacher (coach, mentor, business partner, boss, or friend) in our life. When we learn how to do something from the right source and practice, practice, practice we get pretty good. Repetition is the mother of skill. This is how we get to higher and higher performance levels in sports, relationships,and in our chosen career, or business path. However, there are also strengths which we are born with and need nurturing. I call these gifts that we are born with and need to be developed and shared with the people in our world. For some of us it is in the arts like music, painting, drawing or dancing. It may be linked to leadership such as speaking, teaching, influencing or it may be other forms of creativity like entrepreneurship, writing, gardening or even cooking. There are many gifts we are each born with, that we discover during our life journey.These gifts need time and effort to develop, you know they are gifts because they come naturally. These gifts grow in skill-set very quickly and they have a noticeable positive effect on those around us.  

This next week I encourage you to work on at least one weakness and acknowledge at least one strength that you will put effort into growing.  

The more you know and understand thyself, the more you will begin to realise that you were put on earth for a reason and that there is a life journey that is unique just for you!  

We are all interconnected and are there to serve one another with our gifts. 

Live with passion, stay on your life purpose, and always be at peace.

Stan Kontos 

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As South Australia’s foremost authority on “Peak Life Performance” and “Leadership Psychology”, Stan has a passion for the development of Human Potential through the use of Rapid Change Technologies.   Stan is a prolific reader of books and material on self empowerment and has attended numerous programs around the world on personal development, management, marketing, public speaking, and wealth creation. He is a worldwide accredited NLP Trainer (Neurolinguistic Programming).

His areas of passion include:

  • Coaching: Business, Executive and Personal
  • Mentoring: Leaders, Managers and Management teams
  • Therapy for rapid improvements in stress and personal blocks
  • Leadership Development
  • Life Enhancing Seminar Programs teaching Success Strategies and Personal Empowerment

Stan is an entrepreneur with business interests in various states across Australia.

Stan focuses on continuous and never ending improvement of himself and his teams of partners and associates as well as selfless contribution to others. He is an inspiring and motivating speaker, author, coach, and entrepreneur. He desires to expand people’s lives and to expand his charitable quests.

Best wishes to you as you live a life of passion, purpose and peace as an open minded progressive human being.

Stan is considered to be one’s “ultimate” life and business coach.

BY STAN KONTOS

For those of us in Australia, we are beginning to see the gradual staged return of activity in our society, like the resumption of work in offices, for example.


During the lockdown period, I am sure we all experienced benefits that we would like to keep in our life going forward. For some of us it may be the games night and the extra movies we watched together with our family, or the extra effort we put into making our meals a tastier experience, or the sitting down talking without rushing, or the extra daily walks in the parklands, or the greeting of our neighbours, or the extra reading we enjoyed, or the profound meditation or prayer we engaged in, or the extra time we spent with our pets, or value of technology in communicating with others, or whatever else you noticed that was simple yet valuable.


Whatever benefit we have received during this lockdown experience, I encourage you to write it down and ensure you look at it everyday as a reminder of what new habits are now important in your life. Let’s not fall into old habits which may not be resourceful anymore, rather take those new world habits you discovered with you as you gradually resume your old world. If you do not have a way to preserve these new world learnings then they will become a distant memory and this personal growth experience will not have as much impact.


Every cloud has a silver lining, so decide right at this moment what it is you now value in your life, what is really important, and make it your very own new habit. Your life is a series of habits and I hope one day we can all reflect gracefully from a position of old age that we saw the good in every experience and kept incorporating the best habits as we discovered them, such that our life was gradually constructed like a work of fine art, go forth and continue to make your life a masterpiece.

Live with passion, stay on your life purpose, and always be at peace.

Stan Kontos 

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As South Australia’s foremost authority on “Peak Life Performance” and “Leadership Psychology”, Stan has a passion for the development of Human Potential through the use of Rapid Change Technologies.   Stan is a prolific reader of books and material on self empowerment and has attended numerous programs around the world on personal development, management, marketing, public speaking, and wealth creation. He is a worldwide accredited NLP Trainer (Neurolinguistic Programming).

His areas of passion include:

  • Coaching: Business, Executive and Personal
  • Mentoring: Leaders, Managers and Management teams
  • Therapy for rapid improvements in stress and personal blocks
  • Leadership Development
  • Life Enhancing Seminar Programs teaching Success Strategies and Personal Empowerment

Stan is an entrepreneur with business interests in various states across Australia.

Stan focuses on continuous and never ending improvement of himself and his teams of partners and associates as well as selfless contribution to others. He is an inspiring and motivating speaker, author, coach, and entrepreneur. He desires to expand people’s lives and to expand his charitable quests.

Best wishes to you as you live a life of passion, purpose and peace as an open minded progressive human being.

Stan is considered to be one’s “ultimate” life and business coach.