Mindfulness
The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership
The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic Leadership That’s the title of my new book due for release in the coming months. It’s been a collaboration project since 2012 between myself, Dr Jeffrey M Schwartz, leading Neuroscientist on OCD and neuroplasticity at UCLA, and Art Kleiner, editor for s+b magazine. The book will…
Continue Reading17 Questions to Free Your Mind
A New Year… great. But a new year doesn’t mean a new you or a new life, especially if your mind is still boxed up in its comfort zone. You know this is true. You can’t live the same year 82 times and call it a life! What I’m saying is: don’t just think outside…
Continue ReadingBuilding Your Inner Resilience
“In April, after seeing you and after nearly a full year of mourning, I took the first step in moving forward with my life. I officially started the home-based business I mapped out over the past decade and always dreamed I’d build. I know my husband is watching over me, and I know he’d be…
Continue ReadingThis is the Answer you’ve been looking for
So many people set off in search for answers in their life. Some will consult ‘experts’, some will seek advice from friends, and many will travel far and wide to ‘find themselves’. And there are others who do something a little different. As many of you know, I have just returned from a two week…
Continue ReadingPost Traumatic Growth
My experience of the past two months leads me to write about a tough subject we’d rather avoid. Trauma such as the loss of a loved one or the diagnosis of serious illness can test us to our very limits – trust me, I know this first hand as I’m certain many of you do…
Continue ReadingRising from the Falls of Life
Just in this past two weeks I have known tragedy and loss, fraud and disappointment, shame and isolation, depression and despair, aloneness and regret, pain and defeat, sadness and grief. In spite of and despite all this, I have also known kindness and generosity of spirit, compassion and humility, love and care, encouragement and hope. …
Continue ReadingWhy life seems harder than it needs to be
Busyness!Busyness is an illness.Think about it: ‘I’m busy.’ How often is that your excuse? It used to be my excuse every single day. My schedule used to leave me zero time for unplanned presence and awareness. And I was proud of my busyness. I wore it like a badge. It gave me an illusion…
Continue ReadingGiving thanks
One of my greatest tips for increasing your ‘happiness quotient’ is to practice mindful gratitude. We must realize that we really don’t need ‘more’. We just need to appreciate what we have. It’s a beautiful and bittersweet way of thinking all at once. We may not have what we want right now, but we still…
Continue ReadingChange your thoughts and your life
Shadows? Some of our biggest problems often only exist in our head. The primary cause of our unhappiness and sense of ‘defeat’ is never the current situation but our thoughts about it. Happiness and success really comes down to two elements: the way we think and the way we act based upon our thoughts.…
Continue ReadingThrive and Shine
If we want to thrive in life, we need to take a good hard look in the mirror and then take small, consistent steps to self-correct if necessary. One trap I often see in my work is believing and insisting that life is simply too hard and too unfair. The truth is, it’s as…
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