Hi All & Thanks for visiting my Blog,

It is a few days since I added to my Blog.  I have been quite busy doing things I love to do such as working with Amanda and Matt Clarkson’s Bidding Buzz eBay Magic Training and Weekly Coaching, learning heaps and heaps from these, Listing and Selling on eBay, as well as learning and implementing heaps from John Thornhill’s Coaching Program.

As I said before I think both these programs, and sets of people, are brilliant and I only wish I had known of them over 18 months ago, before much outlay of costs and time given to other programs that did not deliver for one reason or another.  I did meet some shonksters on the way, and we did part with much money believing in what they had only to be out of pocket big time and left wondering if there were really any decent, honest people out there.  We would have been much better off financially if we had met Matt, Amanda, John and Daniel before, that is for sure!

I would like to praise the whole team at Bidding Buzz.  Matt and Amanda Clarkson are extremely successful young eBay entrepreneurs and experts, but are also brilliant at sharing their knowledge and experience with anyone who would like to know how to run a successful eBay business.  They are also genuinely nice, honest, down-to-Earth and caring people, which is also extremely refreshing.  I have not had the opportunity of working with the whole team at BiddingBuzz yet, but would like to praise Tamra Forde and Genta for their amazing supportive and training work. How clever they are!

I would also like to commend Daniel Sumner at John Thornhill’s Coaching Program for his supportive work on the Technical side and also John Thornhill himself.  They have been most patient, supportive and informative.

It is great to have found 2 wonderful programs to be able to work with, and love, that come along with a brilliant support system, and it is also great to find people who really are there genuinely to help you on your journey.  It’s not all about the money.  You really do matter to them.  How important is that?

I have found that when you love something, and are truly passionate about doing, then to me it is not work but thorough and utter enjoyment to participate in.  I get up each day excited now about my day, planning how much time to put in to each of the areas I am enjoying working on and learning, so I can continue to grow.

That was how it was for me with Teaching too.  It was never a chore teaching children.  I totally and absolutely loved it, which was great because Teaching didn’t always pay well.  I was never in it for the money, otherwise I would have taken up my Law Scholarship, or left Teaching a lot earlier to take up something else, which never entered my head.  I was there because I loved it and had always wanted to be a teacher ever since i could remember.  I can think of no other vocation that I would rather have been in for those 29 wonderful years I put in to this brilliant career,  and I will never forget them – all the wonderful experiences I was fortunate enough to have had.  It was a thorough delight to work with children and see them grow and know you played a part in this.  I took my job of working with children extremely seriously.  I knew I was to play a major part in their learning whilst they were in my care, and so I put in as much time to my own learning and growth, as well as planning etc to ensure I was giving the best learning information available to them, in the best way possible.

There are not words to describe the feeling when someone you have taught meets up with you again, or emails you, or, whatever, maybe years later, and tells you that you were “A Great Teacher”,  “The Greatest Teacher Ever”.   Many tears of joy and pride have been shed from these types of wonderful experiences, and, fortunately they have been many.  It is a sheer delight to be out somewhere and have a past student run up to you and throw their arms around you.  It is spine tingling to find out about the amazing careers many have gone on to pursue and know you played a part in it.  It is even more special when you lost your beloved career due to an unfortunate accident, every day wishing you could return, to meet up with someone you have taught, or a parent or fellow teacher, who says some great things to you that reignite a wonderful feeling within.

I still Tutor today, which I love,  and have never advertised.  Word of Mouth advertising, for the right reasons, is a very important thing.  Respect is so important. I have had many students I have tutored over the years and many wonderful things have been said to me by the Parents and Students themselves.  I am honoured at this and wouldn’t have it any other way.  I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night knowing I had not been highly thought of.

It was also wonderful at the end of the year to have so many students wanting to be in your class for the next year of learning, to hear the buzz around the playground and in the classroom – “I hope I get you next year, Mrs Harridge” or “I hope I get Mrs Harridge next year”.

I truthfully look back with pride at those years and will hold them in my heart, and cherish them forever.  I believe they were a gift to me from above.  I believe my Teaching career was a privilege given to pursue to the best of my ability.

I always had an open-door policy for my student’s parents which was very appreciated by them.

I have always had a wonderful rapport with the majority of parents I have interacted with over all these 40 years of Teaching in one form or another, and in my Network Marketing days from 2002 to 2007, before moving over to inputting more time to Internet Marketing learning, when training and supporting my Network Marketing team, I was fortunate to have my team totally respect me and how I worked with them, most praising my training, support and friendship.  Most are still my very close friends.

It was awesome to have so many believe in me they would come on my Weekly Conference Calls and Webinars no questions asked, inputting and working together as a Team, even though often they may have been in different legs of the business to each other, that in another place could cause competition.  That did not matter to them they could be in different legs, and it did not to me either.  We were a team and together we could achieve anything.  We became a family.

I have always been a Team player.  TEAM is very important to me.  It was in the classroom.  It was when working with the Staff in my Executive role.  It was with the Parents too so that we worked together for the benefit of their child with them and with their child.

Together Everyone Achieves More.  How true is this!   The world is a wonderful place.  So many wonderful people with so many gifts and talents to share.  When we come together as a Team, in the workforce, in the Classroom, in the Staffroom, on the Sports Field – wherever, we are hard to beat.  We have that combined spirit, and the desire to work together for the best results.  Working on one’s own on something can be rewarding but working together as a team and knowing you have a team to go to and share with makes you feel not alone, and achieves even greater results.

I have witnessed the most amazing results in the Classroom and elsewhere when united as a team we brainstorm ideas together.  Wow!   I have seen results from these sessions that would blow one’s mind away.  I have been fortunate enough to have been given some talents to work with in this lifetime, but how great it is to interact with, and learn and grow from the input of many different people and their incredible talents and knowledge.  I learned very early in life I do not know everything.

One of my true beliefs is that we are here in this Earth School to love and be loved and to Learn and Teach.

When one spends the majority of 6 years in hospital going through some incredible health and medical experiences, one really begins to look at the world and people differently.

This is a topic I am most passionate about as I have seen so many things not succeed purely because of greed, money and power.  The most successful things that achieve is where Teamwork and respect play a part.  I would much rather work in a Team situation than with someone who just wants power, jealousy, competition or greed.

I have been fortunate to lead School Musicals where the entire Primary and Infants School – students, teachers and parents, worked together to produce these Musicals.  I did not control these, even though I started out as the Leader.  No-one would have worked with me if I had.  Every teacher in the school worked happily with me.  All of their talents were able to come to the fore.  The united teamwork and talents created brilliant Musicals where everyone walked away proud of the major part they had played in each of their areas of contribution.  Everything was worked out with discussion, not my control.

Any rate these are just my feelings on things and I do appreciate you taking the time to read my Blog.

Have a great rest of the day and speak to you again soon!

Carol