Back home after an amazing two and a half days on the crew team for Joanna Martin's Presentation Secrets seminars. It was a powerful learning environment, seeing things from the 'other' side and I've brought back loads of ideas to implement into my own events. They were long days (7am - 9pm) for the crew with only 3 [...]
These last few days have been ‘odd’ for me. I realised that I was grieving, but couldn’t think of why I was doing that. There had been no deaths in my circle of friends and family and yet, there was a sense of loss in me. It took a while for me to realise what [...]
We all strive for success and have many disappointments along the way. Sometime the disappointment is so strong that we give up and turn away from our dream. When we first start out on this journey of becoming a success – whatever success means to you – it is tempting to see others who have [...]
It's raining this morning, raining hard. The traffic is slow and there are lots of 'incidents' along the roads. It has taken me 45 minutes to travel just 7 miles, a journey which usually takes 15 minutes. I arrived and parked and on the way into the hotel, I notice a lot of [...]
We have emotional peaks and emotional troughs. It is a natural part of living that we experience these highs and lows. I don't know about you but I have often found myself to be consumed by the feelings I experience during the lows of life. So much so that nothing else seems to exist , or [...]
This last 2 weeks saw the outpouring of Grief in two very different contexts. The first involved an unexplained coach crash in a road tunnel in the Swiss Alps; twenty eight people died, with twenty two of them being children returning home from a school trip. This obviously caused huge pain and suffering for those closely involved [...]
"If information alone changed people's lives, everybody would be skinny, rich and happy!" Les Brown It’s true isn’t it, and we all know it. So why do you constantly seek more information in order to become successful at something? There is nothing wrong with information per se; it’s just not the only important factor in [...]
How often do you fight things you don’t like? Things people say. Things people do. Things that happen in the world. What do you do when someone is having a go at you, for not being the person they would like you to be? For not being good enough. For being a lousy father/mother/parent/son/daughter/etc. What [...]
How often do you fight things you don’t like? Things people say. Things people do. Things that happen in the world. What do you do when someone is having a go at you, for not being the person they would like you to be? For not being good enough. For being a lousy father/mother/parent/son/daughter/etc. What [...]
I was having a conversation today with Sejual Shah (no relation!) who is practitioner and teacher of an Emotional Intelligence technique known as the Emotional Freedom Technique. During our discussion, the question was asked why so many obviously intelligent people struggle with Emotional Intelligence (EQ). The answer lies in the recognition that we have different [...]