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.

 

Author Archives: Carrie

If you love it…

“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 [...]

If you wish…

“If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate,
become loving and compassionate yourself.
If you wish to diminish fear in the world,
diminish your own.
These are the gifts you can give.”

Gary Zukav
I recently had an interesting conversation with a mother that was very upset
over “the state of the world,” and what that meant in the future [...]

You are the sun…

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.
The sun’s rays do not burn until brought in to focus.”
Alexander Graham Bell
How many of us live our lives feeling:

Scattered?
Rushed?
Stretched?
Distracted?
Overextended?
Unfocused?

We are constantly “doing,” yet seem to get nothing done!
This state of distraction has become the new version of what it means to be successful.
You must be important [...]

Waiting….

“Waiting always seems longer
when you are relying on someone
to do something
you can do for yourself.”
Enzo D’Alimonte
A lot of us are waiting.
We are waiting for people at home to notice how much we do, and how much we give.
We are waiting for people at work to notice that we can do more, we should be paid [...]

New endings…

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,
but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson
I have talked to a lot of people that wish that they had a different “beginning” in life.
Some talk about the “beginning” in terms of a different life growing up
(with more talking and less yelling…more affection…more warmth…more [...]