People around the world are dissatisfied at work. Why? Check out this video, but if you’re a manager, be prepared for a shock… The problem may be you!

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If you struggle to keep focused on heading where you want to go in life, battle to finish projects, or find it hard to implement stuff you’ve learned in seminars and workshops, here are some great tips and tools that will help.

In Episode 7 of his blog series, “Personally Branded”, John Carroll discusses how to live true to your life purpose by finding perceptual discrepancies and creating synergy between your life purpose, your self-perception and how others perceive you.

Check this video out. Have some fun with how you see yourself-John Carroll’s “Personally Branded” Episode 6.

Success is about what we give, not what we get. How successful you feel depends on your perceptions of yourself and other people’s perceptions of you.

John Carroll explains how small changes can make a big difference and how we can feel more fulfilled by taking responsibility for improving our own working lives.

See how your life and the work you do fulfils “The 5 Pillars of Purpose” in the latest episode of “Personally Branded - A Step by Step Guide to Finding Meaning in Everyday Life”.

The Sydney Morning Herald on 7th July says the farting dog is back! Great news for the Mambo brand and an interesting lesson in how a brand is not just the name, or the logo, or it’s advertising.

When Mambo became part of the Olympics and new brand owners, Gazal, ditched the farting dog and tried to go more mainstream, the brand crumbled. People clearly didn’t want a mainstream Mambo label. It just wasn’t Mambo. It didn’t deliver the irreverent Mambo values that people associated with the brand.

Our personal brands are no different. I don’t care how many people tell you you can get that job or the promotion you’re after by changing the way you look - you might fool them initially, but it won’t work for long. If you don’t know and show what it is that makes you “you”, no amount of window dressing will stop others from eventually seeing through you. Faking it is a short term fix and the road to long term disaster.

New Mambo MD, Angus Kingsmill, clearly understands branding. “The fart has been put back into the dog and reignited,” he said. The newest owners are making Mambo “Mambo” again. Go Mambo!

So do you know and show the real ”you”? Or does the real “you” need to be reignited?

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 If you’re feeling disillusioned, disengaged, frustrated, or bored with your working life or  life in general, John Carroll’s “Personally Branded” blog series will guide you through a step-by-step process to finding more meaning in everyday life.