Kirsty's Blog

As I write this I’ve just received my first Christmas card of the season. It’s from a fabulous lady called Namita I met maybe 3 years ago in Darwin, Australia and she’s a prime example of how to ensure your Christmas cards aren’t a waste of time. What can we learn from Namita: 1. Leader of the p...

In my early days managing my real estate agency we used to have a client who was an Aussie ex pat living in South America. He once signed off an email to me with “adios” (Spanish for goodbye). Not wanting to be outdone, I started my next email to him with the only Spanish word I knew that wasn’t...

Action exercise for today: Get out a shiny piece of blank A4 paper. On that piece of paper write at the top My Definition of Success. Write under that everything you will have achieved, everything you will possess (skills, belongings, everything) and everything that you will be when you’re a suc...

Ladies… prepare to get jealous. I’m married – to a fire fighter. And yes, he looks spunky in his uniform and yes, this morning he came home with video footage of a huge fire he was in last night and yes, sometimes I imagine him as Mr. August in a fire fighter’s calendar (too much information?). ...

Where: www.joesgoals.com What is it: Online super simple goal tracking site. Why I love it: It’s free, it’s very visual and it’s so intuitively easy! Check it out yourself.   Where: www.springwise.com What is it: If it’s cool and new – they write about it here Why I love it: Check out this story...

I once went online to view the ad for one of my vacant rental properties. After reading the advertisement three or four times I realised something quite stunning. After no less than 12 years experience working in real estate, owning my own real estate businesses, selling and renting real estate ...

“I’m a perfectionist” is the most common answer I receive when asking people to name one of their weaknesses. In thinking back to my own experiences interviewing for jobs, I think I even used it once or twice myself! I believe people like to list perfectionism as a weakness because it sounds lik...

Goal setting can be a painful process. As I write this, my lower thigh is bunched and labouring under thick sticky tape which is pushing my iliotibial band in a direction it just doesn’t want to go. Earlier this morning for the third time in as many weeks a lovely lady with a deceptively sweet s...

In many parts of the world including the Australian state of Victoria, where I have two of my rental properties, rental property demand is at a massive high at the time of writing this article. For people renting residential properties this can mean consistent rent increases for those already in...

Advance to Go, Collect $1 Million By Kirsty Dunphey and Lynne Payne Little bit Aussie battler, little bit sassy entrepreneur – Kirsty’s story is truly honest, thoughtful, credible and inspiring. From the cover of BRW to Women’s Money magazine, Kirsty is being sought for comment on not only prope...