Your Best Year Starts Here! with Nigel Risner and Neil Martin

Neil was only late ONCE, but Nigel really isn't letting it go... In this episode of Your Best Year Starts Here! Nigel uses it as an example of how the formula E + R = O works in practice. So what is this simple formula? It is a way to look at your life and understand why you get the outcomes you do!

"If you want to get your dream together, you need to get your team together" In this episode of Your Best Year Starts Here, Nigel and Neil talk about teams, support networks and the importance of communicating your vision. Being a couple of monkeys, they also get sidetracked a bit and go old school, talking about personal development cassettes and having a 'car university'. Oh, and if you are lovi...

Planning for the future? What should you do FIRST? As in, what should you do BEFORE you start thinking about the future? In this episode, Neil and Nigel talk about the importance of looking back and celebrating your successes!

Are you focusing on the things that REALLY matter? Do you make a declaration to move on and do the important stuff? In this episode Neil and Nigel discuss forgiveness, letting things go, moving on and recognising the things that matter. Oh and Nigel highlights an issue with Neil's lateness... All 11 minutes of it. But is he being serious?

The final episode in the "It's a Zoo Around Here" special... And this one is about the dolphin.  Dolphins are open and unassertive, warm, supportive, and reliable. However, the dolphin sometimes is seen by others as compliant, soft-hearted, and acquiescent.  Dolphins seek security and like to feel they belong. Like the elephant, the dolphin is slow at taking action and making decisions....

Episode 4 of the "It's a Zoo Around Here" special... And this one is about the Elephants. People who have the elephant behaviour are both indirect and guarded. They seem to be very concerned with the process of thinking, and are persistent, systematic problem-solvers.  But they also can be seen as aloof, picky and critical. Elephants are very security-conscious and have a strong need to be ri...

Part 3 of the "It's a Zoo Around Here" special... This one is about the Lions. The direct (and at the same time) the guarded.  Lions exhibit firmness in their relationships with others, are oriented toward productivity and goals, and are concerned with bottom-line results.  Closely allied to these positive traits, however, are some negative ones: the lion can be stubborn, impatient, toug...

Part 2 of the "It's a Zoo Around Here" special and this is the one about Monkeys... These are the ideas people and they can get VERY enthusiastic about their plans. However, others may see them as manipulative. Monkeys are more comfortable with "best guesstimates" than with carefully researched facts. They always seem to be chasing dreams...  They are socialisers: creative, dynamic and able t...

So at the end of the last episode Neil and Nigel invited the audience to send in questions... The first question received was a video shot in a jacuzzi (yes, really!!) And that got us thinking... Nigel and Neil keep talking about Monkeys, Lions, Elephants and Dolphins but haven't really explained why. It's all about a book Nigel wrote called "It's a Zoo Around Here" on personality types. So this w...

Do you have a bigger 'thing' than just a goal? In this episode Nigel and Neil talk about the importance of having a VISION... something that you could achieve in your lifetime but is too big for you to know exactly how you will make it happen.

So what happens for most people when they wake up in the morning? They go to their phones, and the first thing they do is they spend 10 minutes (or longer) deleting stuff. Too many people get bogged down having too many things to do. They have 50+ items on their to-do list and they will never get them all done. They finish their day with an incomplete mind...  And then they feel annoyed, they...

In Episode 6, Nigel and Neil talked about why SMART goals don't work and how to upgrade to SMARTER goals instead.. But then, they ran out of time. Yep, we're sorry to all the Elephants out there. We know it must've been tough for you to wait a whole week only knowing the S, M and A. The good news is Neil and Nigel pick up exactly where episode 6 ended and this time they make it all the way to R. O...

Ever tried using SMART goals to improve an area of your life or business? Well, we've got news for you... THEY DON'T WORK. In this episode Neil and Nigel talk about weight loss, celebrating, pizza and chocolate. But that's just the intro... The interesting bit is when Nigel and Neil both share their personal mission statements and why YOU need one too. Oh, and then they explain why SMART goals suc...

We ended the last episode talking about goal setting and defining your NUMBER ONE big goal. We start this episode with a FIGHT between Nigel and Neil. Why? Because Nigel has a BIG PROBLEM with the 'one big goal' idea. Neil and Nigel talk goals, visions, missions, outcomes, BHAGs and dominos (not the pizza, much to Nigel's disappointment). Oh, and there is a bit of science too!

Every morning when we get up and get ready for the day we choose the clothes we are going to wear... What if we could choose our emotions in the same way? In this episode of Your Best Year Starts Here! Nigel and Neil talk about choosing and managing emotions... Oh, and they talk about choosing WHO you decide to surround yourself with. Who is on your team? And will they call you out on your truth (...

Less than 30 seconds into this episode Nigel catches Neil out with a spelling test... Yes, really! But that's not really what episode 3 of Your Best Year Starts Here! is about. This episode is really about the question "Am I Ok with Myself?" Not just in the good times, but when under pressure and when things don't go to plan. Thing is, we always have a choice. And when we recognise that life is a...

There are people in your life that want you to fail. In fact, there are people who will be listening to THIS podcast that don't want us to succeed. Who are the people who will support you in your dreams? And who are the dream thieves? Where do people have their own agenda that is derailing yours (and the greater good)? Who do you need to let go?  (oh and on a completely unrelated note, will w...

This is episode one. We are still figuring things out... But, here is a question for you, are you trying to figure out how to create your best year yet?  Well, it doesn't matter if it is 1 January, 19 November or ANY other day of the year, the goal of this podcast is to make sure Your Best Year Starts Here! Oh, and as it's episode one, the podcast starts here too. So seriously, do we need an intro...