Stress

A magical dose of beauty and wonder

I don’t know about you, but I can get totally immersed in the “doing” of  life (even stressed sometimes), spending hours at the computer dealing with a deluge of information or with pesky administrative issues. (The actual coaching and training is usually magical though).
Or I feel sad or worried for loved ones’ plight or for [...]

A really fun video that will inspire you to be yourself

I just saw a video that pulled my heart strings because it spoke to two of my top values:

My love of animals
The fact that we need to be who we are rather than try to mold ourselves into what we “should” be, and that’s for our own happiness and because we’ll be much more successful [...]

Sensitive people can be prone to deep burnouts; what Rue Hass recommends to prevent it

Rue Hass is a well-known intuitive mentor/counsellor/coach and author of: “This Is Where I Stand; The Power And The Gift Of Being Sensitive” and we had a really interesting conversation about sensitive people:

The special gifts they bring to business
And the pitfalls they have to avoid

One of those pitfalls is their vulnerability to burnout especially if [...]

Challenges of being a sensitive person in business

In the last post, I described some of the ways in which an entrepreneur, executive or manager’s sensitivity would be an asset in doing their work.
Most sensitives would tell you that it’s been difficult functioning in our mainly action-oriented, fast-paced and attention-seeking culture and business world. For example, sensitive persons would tend to:

Find confrontations [...]

Worried about this or that? Read this

The following is a reprint of a blog post that touched me. It was written by Andrea Stenberg, a friend of mine who specializes in teaching entrepreneurs to use social media profitably.
“I just came back from a family reunion in Hodgeville Saskatchewan – population 150ish. One day my Uncle Felix and Aunt Hilda began telling [...]

Gratitude as a selfish act

I was just reading a recent issue of the Finer Minds newsletter entitled: “3 Reasons Why Gratitude Needs to Be Part of Your Daily Routine.”
Now you and I know that we “should” be grateful, that it’s an evolved, spiritual thing to do. We also experienced how good it feels.
In my experience, lots of us haven’t [...]

Putting Up a Good Front Isn’t So Good After All

When I was in the corporate world, putting up a good front was seen as a necessary part of the job.
Putting on your suit and your panty hose felt like putting on armor. I remember a colleague actually describing it in those terms so it’s not just poetic license.
Both men and women felt they had [...]

Getting out of overwhelm: 6 suggestions

We get into overwhelm when we feel there is too much to do and too little time.
That’s pretty obvious. What’s less obvious is what to do about it.
Most of us feel like there is little we can realistically do in our current circumstances.
We’ll get relief only when those change; when our sales reach a certain [...]

Finding clients: If you can help people with these two things, you’ll be in demand

It’s really hit home lately how people, especially entrepreneurs, feel distressed by two things more than ever:

They are overwhelmed by the array of choices: strategies to implement, tasks to complete, technology to learn or outsource, etc.
They are facing this alone and will fully bear the consequences of their choices.

Gone is the established set of procedures [...]

Pre-planning; the most overlooked factor in successfully starting a business

The post title might surprise you, because so many people who have a dream to start a business get stuck in the planning phase, so how can I say it’s overlooked?
What happens is that the planning never gets finished, either because it’s too vague (and therefore more akin to day-dreaming) or lacking in a cohesive [...]