Have you ever heard someone say, "He really knows how to push my buttons"? I heard my client say it the other day about someone in his life. It reminded me of the buttons I have. In NLP we call these triggers. It is the Read More >>
Cows & Sheep
Happy Chinese New Year! It is the year of the sheep (it is a goat actually but that's just being picky) and it reminds me of the story of my husband and I on his farm in New Zealand. On the farm there are cows and sheep (and a few wild deer but Read More >>
Love Strategies
It is the time of flowers, chocolates and red hearts. Some call it a marketing gimmick designed by the florists to make us spend more money. Valentine's day, whether you choose to celebrate it or not, is a day about love. What type of lover are Read More >>
Child Abuse
I was walking through the park the other day when it happened. I was just minding my own business walking by this father and son. I wasn't really paying much attention to what the son said to the father and then BAM it happened. The father hit the Read More >>
Strength in Numbers
Imagine a bamboo stick. It's a pretty hard substance. I mean, you wouldn't want to be caned with it, would you? But even though it is strong, if you put it in a river and stand on it, the strength of the bamboo wouldn't hold you up, Read More >>
3 Myths of Goal Setting
I was chatting with my friend the other day and she said something to me that made my ears perk up and say, "OOOH, tell me more…" She said that her and her husband give each other goals each year. "You mean you tell your husband what you want him Read More >>
5 Ways We Sabotage Ourselves
Probably the first thing that came to your mind when you read "sabotage" is procrastination so that's the one I'm not going to cover. Why? Because there's a simple solution. Schedule it and get it done. Now on to the other 5 ways we sabotage Read More >>
Broken Resolutions
Do you set New Year's Resolutions? I do. Well sort of. I don't actually call them New Year's Resolutions. I call them FLOW Goals and they are part of the Strategic Planning I do each year. This year, I was determined to get one of my personal Read More >>
Leadership Self-Discipline
I've noticed a few people around me who claim to be leaders in their given field display an amazing lack of self-discipline. The details are irrelevant. What is relevant is the behaviour. What I was noticing were these self-professed leadership Read More >>
One Step at a Time
I was in a wheelchair when I got off the plane. I had been in a skiing accident and I fractured my tibia plateau & tore both my ACLs (ligament in your knee). I had 2 separate surgeries and had been in a wheelchair for two months. I returned Read More >>