Just because you don’t name the direction, doesn’t mean that you aren’t going in one…

SYI was created to encourage and inspire people to say, “yes,” to taking control and owning the direction of their lives,
both personally and professionally, through workshops/training and coaching.

 

Monthly Archives: May 2008

The Answers

May 27, 2008 – 6:23 pm

“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.”
Joan Baez
Sometimes we can be impatient.
We want what we want…now.
We don’t want to work at it.
We don’t want to wait for it.
We want to know the answers.
We want to have the results.
We want every dream to come true…
every day.
While it is important to believe that we [...]

If you love it…

May 26, 2008 – 7:04 pm

“Your chances of success
are directly proportional
to the degree of pleasure
that you derive from what you do.”

Michael Korda
 
By all objective standards, he was good at his job.
He was able to fulfill the job description without incident.
He had been a solid, stable employee for the past seven years.
He produced…and completed…and performed…very well.
But, when he talked about his [...]

What you do NOT do…

May 7, 2008 – 8:43 pm

“If you don’t go after what you want,
you’ll never have it.
If you don’t ask,
the answer is always no.
If you don’t step forward,
you’re always in the same place.”
Nora Roberts
You are right-
there IS a risk in taking a risk.
There IS an unknown.
There IS a possibility that something won’t work,
and a chance you will not succeed.
But, there [...]

Self maintained distractions…

May 4, 2008 – 3:03 pm

Do we ever stop and take a moment to think, “what am I doing this for?”
So many of us operate on autopilot, whether in our jobs or in our personal lives, and we don’t always stop and think about what we are doing, or why we are doing it!
It is easy, especially with the increase [...]