71 – Setting in Great Habits from the Great Reset

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.

70 – Behold, I will do new things

BY STAN KONTOS

I hope this Words of Inspiration finds you excited about the gradual increase in freedoms that are coming our way here in Adelaide and across Australia. Things we took for granted we will once again begin to enjoy although this time I am sure with greater levels of appreciation, I will certainly be very grateful for a restaurant meal, going to the gym and eventually a musical concert.

What new things will you do? What have you been inspired about the last couple of months, to be, do, or have in life? We have all had a lot of extra time to think, plan, reflect and come up with aspirations, goals and elements we will change in our life. This is the ideal time in life to think about the wisdom, “Behold, I will do new things!” I certainly have made some incredible advances in my thinking and realised the power of thinking, the power of meditation and the power of prayer in taking our lives to another level. If you are interested, join in to the SOL Results Spiritual Wisdom Live Event “Finding and Keeping Inner Peace in Uncertain Times” with myself and Manuel Karkafiris. The Event is Free and will be held on Wednesday 13th May at 7:00pm, click here to register.

I am excited about spending some time in a warm place like Darwin or Broome during our winter period, I usually go overseas for part of winter each year, however, this year I look forward to enjoying warm parts of my homeland here in Australia. 

I am excited about the opportunities in investments, business, property and sharemarket, for example, as we come out of the COVID-19 period and all the opportunities it will present. I am excited about all the new quality meals we have been cooking at home and will continue to do so moving forward (yes, we will also go out from time to time to enjoy the cafe scene). 

I am excited about where online meetings will fit in well, as much as I prefer in person meetings with people, I can also see great benefit with online meetings in certain circumstances which I didn’t realise before. I am excited about finding ways to be less busy, at times I was operating at a frantic pace, and create more time to think, plan and act, to be more strategic. To do more of the things that make a huge difference to myself, my family and other people. 

So, how will you change and take on a new way of living as we become more liberated? 

Here are some questions to help you: 

  1. What will I STOP doing?
  2. What will I START doing?
  3. What will I do LESS of?
  4. What will I do MORE of?

These four questions will give you the gift of discovering all you need from the COVID-19 lockdown period. Write them down and action them. 

These are the new things for you!

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.

69 – Are you ready to be flexible in your thinking?

BY STAN KONTOS

So, as we come out of COVID-19 lock down in the near future, how will you keep your mind free of unnecessary self imposed limited patterns developed these last few weeks? Will you continue to live with anxiety and rigidity like an inflexible statue, or will you be a flexible thinker adapting joyously to the freedoms our medical authorities encourage us to partake once again?

I know that I certainly will have greater gratitude for all the freedoms I once took for granted as they become available. As restrictions become lifted in the near future, observe your behaviour and the behaviour of others. At some point in time, when our government and medical authorities let us know that all is in good order and they support our change in behaviour, you will need to make a decision to be internally free from any thoughts of the past so that you can enjoy hugging a friend, enjoying a restaurant meal and shaking a hand. Of course I am sure our hygiene levels will stay at a higher level than before, for example, washing our hands regularly, and that is definitely a good thing. 

The key to success in life is learning to master your mind and not let old patterns master you. Flexibility is a key attribute of all successful human beings. The rigid will eventually break down whereas the flexible will survive and thrive. Become a flexible thinker able to master your thoughts with the changing environment and not fall into the trap of an inflexible statue. 

Look forward to a reinstatement of freedoms as they are in the not too distant horizon. Look forward to the simple joys in life. Look forward to being yourself. 

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.

68 – The One Thing, Everything

BY STAN KONTOS

The One Thing, Everything

Questions are the Answer

Live in Peace and Joy

I have always believed in a “one thing, everything” life statement. It is like a compass in life. For many, this is referred to as a “Purpose Statement”, the purpose of one’s life, or it could be called “One’s Destiny”, the direction of one’s life and ultimate arrival.

If we do not have a compass to guide us, how will we know why we are on Earth and where we are heading? One of the greatest benefits, and there are many, of the current Covid-19 living restrictions, is we have more time to reflect on questions like: 

“Who am I?”

“Why am I here?”

“How can I add value?”

“Who will I ultimately become?”

“What does the Creator of the Universe want for me?”

Some other questions which can assist you to arrive at a purpose statement include, “What would I do if I knew I could not fail?” and, “If time and money were not an issue, what would I be doing with my life?”

This period of life is an excellent time in the history of humanity to reactivate the art of thinking. Thinking is the process of asking and answering questions. What you think about most of the time will be where your life moves toward and where you end up. I encourage you to invest some time in the art of thinking and discover what is the purpose of your life and who you will become. 

Here is a hint, as I have done this exercise with clients hundreds of times… everyone’s life purpose is always about discovering one’s gift and then giving their gift to others and to the world. 

Discover and give, and you will live in peace and joy all the days of your life. 

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.

67 – Learn to look back from the future

BY STAN KONTOS

One of the greatest “mind exercises” I learnt years ago was the ability to fast forward in one or two years, then look back in time, back to the present moment. By doing this, it always eliminates anxiety and unhelpful worry. 

If we do this exercise right now and look forward in two years time, we can see the world is now a much better place where everything is “open for business”. Scientists have now really understood the Coronavirus and we can understand, how contagious it really is, how it can be treated or prevented, how we could have reacted better in 2020, who should and should not worry about the virus, who is specifically at risk and how the conspiracy theories posted on social media are totally futile. 

The world lockdown is a historical event, just like previous, past events and now there are new issues appearing that we need to think about. At some stage, every issue or challenge passes, we all get the learnings, we move on and we prepare for the next challenge in life. 

So, if you ever have anxiety about a present event, just take your mind into the future and see the event passing and a new world in formation. Then you will be more present in the present, and less distracted with fear and worry. 

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.

66 – Believe It and Achieve It

BY STAN KONTOS

If you reflect upon every exciting and great goal you have ever achieved, it was because you opened your mind to possibilities. Then you began believing in these possibilities. Following this belief, you took action when you saw an opening that could lead you to your aspiration. And eventually you achieved this aspirational goal.

I want us all to begin in believing in a better world. My belief is if we each create a series of empowering beliefs, we will then take the actions necessary to bring this into our reality at the appropriate time, once it is right to do so and collectively humanity can restore the world.

Here are positive empowering beliefs we can all begin reflecting upon daily from today onwards:

  1. Thank you for our world and people’s lives being restored.
  2. Thank you for the many people walking the streets, eating in cafe’s, enjoying a beer at the pub, attending a sporting game, going to a festival, and singing with joy in a concert, karaoke bar, church or theatre event.
  3. Thank you for gyms, pilates studios, and health and beauty establishments being open.
  4. Thank you for once again being able to enjoy working with my colleagues and having a laugh and a coffee with them.
  5. Thank you for retail therapy and the buzz of a shopping experience.
  6. Thank you for the celebration of weddings, barbecues and parties.
  7. Thank you for full classes in schools and universities and for the many events they host for parents and teachers to enjoy watching the future of our nation rise.
  8. Thank you for safe travel both interstate and international and for holidays to rest and restore our soul.
  9. Thank you for our health being protected from pestilence so we can all enjoy the journey of reaching old age.
  10. Thank you for humanity being restored where people can safely shake hands, hug one another and enjoy genuine caring human touch.
  11. Thank you for the gift of freedom, a healthy life, love amongst our family, neighbours and friends, ample jobs for everyone and thank you for peace.
  12. Thank you for teaching us the gift of appreciation where we now realise even more how fortunate we are and for realising the importance of assisting others in our communities. As well as assisting those less fortunate in other parts of the world, so they too can have the good life that has been restored to us.

I encourage you to read this daily and to share it with your friends.

“Believe it and Achieve it”.

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

Stan Kontos 

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.

65 – Be Anxious for Nothing

BY STAN KONTOS

Wouldn’t it be great to get rid of anxiety, anxious thoughts, angst, fear, stress and any fearful thoughts and emotions?  

I am sure at some stage in our life we have heard of the “flight and fight response”. In simplicity, the response of flight (fleeing, running away), or fight (to face it head on) was designed to protect us from extreme danger. It was never meant to be used on a daily basis because of a media story we read, or in reaction to what someone says. We are not meant to get any anxiety other than in life threatening situations. 

We are essentially meant to live without anxiety or fear, but instead, with a sense of power, love for self, others and the world, and with a sound mind that is always able to think straight. So how can we retrain ourselves to be “be anxious for nothing” people? We need to realise that life is too short to keep worrying about things that may never happen. We need to understand that stress in any form is unhealthy, unhelpful and unwanted by people who want to live a more abundant life.

Make a decision today that you will never let any media story, any person, or any event cause you stress, unless it is life threatening and you need to escape quickly or fight it off. Make a commitment that you will not allow emotions to cloud your mind by distorting your thoughts after you read the media item, speak to the said person, or experience an event. 

One of my very early advisors said to me, “Master your mind son. Learn to master your mind then you will have anything you want from life”. Yes, I know you will be thinking, “Easier said than done Stan!” I sympathise because yes, it sounds simple however it is not easy. It does require a lot of practice, however, when you arrive you will experience a self control that is quite profound and will allow you to prosper so much more in life. The secret is beginning today with a decision that you will become a, “Be Anxious For Nothing” person, and you will do whatever it takes to achieve this.   

Decisions come first and answers come second. Once you decide that you want to master fear and all its variances, you will have entered the royal road to lifelong personal development and it is on this road that the destination will appear for you.

Best of luck – all I can say is it is a wonderful journey, the journey of self mastery.

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

Stan Kontos 

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.

64 – Affirmations

BY STAN KONTOS

One of the most powerful tools to switch our mind fleeing away from the subconscious impact of media negativity and drawing night toward the light (positivity), is to declare positive statements over your life.

Construct a list of phrases that make you feel good with a sense of hope and excitement for the future.

Here are examples that may resonate with you, or you may wish to make up your own list:

  1. I am blessed
  2. I am confident
  3. I am victorious
  4. I am exceedingly abundant
  5. I am protected
  6. I am surrounded by great people
  7. Promotion and increase are coming my way
  8. Only good things come into my world
  9. I will never live in fear and fear will never live in me
  10. I am courageous
  11. I am kind
  12. I am compassionate
  13. I am creative
  14. Life is great
  15. I am grateful
  16. Great opportunities are appearing before me

I hope the above inspire you. Make it a habit to say them everyday (even better twice a day) and watch how your mindset shifts. 

Remember the toughest steel is forged in the hottest oven.

Let’s turn every challenge into an opportunity so we can come out stronger, better and wiser than before.

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

Stan Kontos 

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.

63 – Out with the old, in with the new

BY STAN KONTOS

Have you ever noticed that history repeats itself? 

For those of us that studied history (I did a long time ago in High School), it is incredible how many times we human beings repeat the past. Let’s look at the share market, there is always a period of growth (the bull market) followed by a period of losses (the bear market). Or how we do relationships with others – always a period of good relations followed by a period of some awkwardness (or issues). Or even our health – good periods and not so good periods. One of the keys to all issues is they eventually pass, “this too shall pass”.

I have been reflecting on a wisdom from the old testament as follows, “Do not remember the former things, nor reason about the things of old. Behold I will do new things, which shall now spring forth, and you shall know them: and I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the waterless places”, which effectively could be translated into, “Out with the old and in with the new- let’s now look for the positives that will occur”. What this wisdom is saying to us is that we need to stop focussing on the problem all the time or the mistakes of the past. What’s done is done, we need to let it go. What we now need to focus on is the future, we need to generate hope and joy and go into the future seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

So it is whether it is a personal challenge, or a community challenge, or a world challenge, the laws of life do not change. 

We all need to stop focussing on the past and stop getting caught up in the problem and begin instilling hope into ourselves and others around us for a bright and exciting future. If we take into account the present coronavirus situation, continually looking at the numbers rising or listening to the media (the media is always trying to alarm us), it is not healthy for our thought life. We need to begin affirming what we want and bring hope filled words into our vocabulary.

Perhaps we could think and declare the following:

  1. It is great to see the world coming together, humanity will win, I am sure a solution is on its way
  2. How amazing that we have all slowed down to spend more time with our loved ones, it’s so nice to slow down and connect deeper with ourselves and our loved ones
  3. There are hundreds of scientists working around the clock for a medication or vaccine or both, there are exciting times ahead. With every race is a winner
  4. What incredible leaders we have to help steer us all to safety – thank you Prime Ministers and Presidents for being great stewards

When we program our mind to think this way and we speak this way, we begin to feel so much more empowered and hopeful. And when a nation of people has hope, inevitably a solution is found. You see, to become creative (to create a solution), we need to feel good, we need to feel inspired and we need to be “can do” people, a “can do nation”, and a “can do” world. Let’s all get excited and take our mind into the sphere of creativity and hope as that is where the solutions to all of mankind’s issues are. This is where the “roads in the desert and rivers in the waterless places” exists. 

Mankind has always risen above challenges because it understands the workings of the mind given as a gift from the Creator to each and everyone of us. We were designed to experience life and its issues and to rise above all challenges and from this, become better human beings than before – the elevation of our consciousness.

Hope, inspiration and creativity with a  can do attitude will bring results in any area of your life.

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

Stan Kontos 

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.

62 – #covid19 (Coronavirus): here’s my research to date (at 25 March 2020)

BY STAN KONTOS

Here is my research to date for us to gain a better understanding around Covid-19 (Coronavirus) and how to be a part of a great Australia staying on top of the spread, so we can slow down the impact on our hospital system.

  1. Our government is doing a great job; they got off the mark quickly and are using a staged approach from best practice seen in other countries. Note: Singapore is by far the best. 
  2. The far majority of cases to date have been linked to overseas travel, hence why our Prime Minister closed the borders to international travel. 
  3. 80 per cent of people who happen to get it will experience simple cold flu-like symptoms. Note: this is not influenza, however, has similar symptoms.15 per cent will need to see a doctor. However, 5 per cent may need high level medical care (hospital) and most of these will be the vulnerable people of our society.
  4. The vulnerable are: elderly and people with pre-existing illnesses (e.g. heart issues, diabetes, immune issues such as cancer). 
  5. The strategy used by our government is to “flatten the curve”. What this means is keep the spread low so our hospitals can cope with any potential influx of the 5 per cent who need urgent attention especially over the winter period coming up. 
  6. The overall worldwide death rate of 4 per cent shows it is something we need to be diligent in its management – most deaths are skewed to the elderly and to those with pre-existing illnesses. The good news is, I see trends in other countries (e.g. South Korea) of current death rates being under 1 per cent (it is still a bit early to be conclusive here, but it certainly is looking good) and Singapore is also below 1 per cent and are managing it well (I think they are the best in the world). If we want to be a high performing country, we need to model excellence, just like being the best at anything – model success. 
  7. The key includes cleanliness – wash your hands regularly with soap and water is key; no need to worry if you cannot find hand sanitizers guys. Just keep clean and avoid touching your face and have common sense in following the government policies around self-isolation. 
  8. Heaps of background work is happening with vaccines and drugs – not sure when a breakthrough will occur. 
  9. Countries that have high levels of testing and management programs, for example, tracking systems being used in Singapore and South Korea are working well. 

What can we as a country and state do better? 

  1. More readily available testing. For example, South Korea is doing something like 8,000 tests per day.  
  2. Have better tracking systems (use of technology would be helpful).  
  3. Faster testing – taking up to 48 hours here this past week to get results is way too long. Singapore gets results in 4 hours! That’s why they are the best.   
  4. Have a back-up plan of hospital beds. We are getting there here in South Australia with creating another 188 beds via the old Wakefield Hospital and a site located on North East Road. 

What can we each as individuals do to make things better?

  1. Calm people down and encourage others that our government is best in class with the right strategies in place.  
  2. Stop the fear overreaction – toilet paper and food will not run out.  
  3. Stop comparing ourselves to countries that were too slow off the mark and are now struggling –the media is irresponsible here.  
  4. Avoid anxiety in yourself or in your fellow man as this may bring a future spike in mental health issues from hyper sensitisation (stress).  
  5. Be kind to people, encourage them, educate them and help them as your fellow human beings. Be happy and positive. It is a virus and we all need to do our part to keep the numbers down so we can keep the death rate down, it is all about management until a vaccine or drug is discovered. 
  6. Don’t fall for incorrect articles in the media. At the same time, please follow government policies as they are there to help us all. Stick to the facts. Death rates are very low at the moment but we need to get total infection numbers stabilising.  
  7. Think about our economy. Panic and fear just makes things worse – support small businesses where possible. 
  8. Live daily as our Prime Minister has told us recently. If the government wants us to change anything because the numbers are going the wrong way they will tell us – they are watching the numbers for us in advance with the medical professionals and making decisions. Just follow the strategy and we will continue to be a high performing country. If the numbers show we need to get tighter with strategy they will let us know.  
  9. Live and enjoy each day and stay away from worry or stress. Be diligent. 
  10. Let’s all project positivity for the future for a significant breakthrough – a vaccine or drug that will put this to bed (just like we did with the flu and other issues in the past, e.g. smallpox). 

I hope this information is valuable to you.  

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

Stan Kontos 

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.