Category Archives: Inspiration
Emotional Intelligence Workshop
Upcoming Workshop
Thursday, September 25th - 8:30am to 11:00am
Emotional Intelligence:
People Skills for the Business World…How can you stand out?!
Enterprise Center, 121 Loring Ave, Salem MA 01970
Emotional Intelligence (EI) describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one’s self, of others, and of groups. Self-awareness, self-management social awareness and [...]
The Power of Your Battle
“When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever.
As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power.”
Anthony de Mello
What are you waging war against?
What struggle, issue, battle or injustice are you dragging around with you…
day after day…
month after month…
and, for some,
decade after decade?
Some are very busy with what went wrong…
what didn’t happen (and should [...]
On the move~
“Little by little, one travels far.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
She said that she didn’t feel like she was making progress. She swore that nothing had changed, and she had been doing nothing…
not one single thing to make her life more of what she wanted.
As we were talking she started naming what had changed in the past year,
and we [...]
Write it down!
“The discipline of writing something down
is the first step to making it happen.”
Lee Iacocca
Some say that they don’t have time,
others say they don’t need to,
but the bottom line is, writing a goal is a commitment.
A commitment to you, and a commitment to owning what you want.
Yet so many aren’t willing to commit to what they [...]
Pure Power
“Listen…
Are you breathing just a little
and calling it a life?”
Mary Oliver
This captures it all, doesn’t it?
Read it.
Read it again.
Now, answer the question…
Are you?
Think about it…
Are you??
And, if you’re breathing “just a little,”
and it’s been that way for far too long,
what are you going to do about it?
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Living…or just thinking?
“You cannot plough a field
by turning it over
in your mind!”
Anonymous
There is a point to planning, and thinking, and developing a direction in which you will head.
But, for many, they stay there…for too long (and some stay there forever!).
You cannot iron out all the wrinkles from the couch.
You cannot do everything in your head, or on [...]
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 [...]
What you do NOT do…
“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 [...]
If you have it, give it
“Feeling gratitude
and not expressing it,
is like wrapping a present
and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
I’m going to say something that may surprise you.
You may actually (initially) disagree, but if you were to conduct your own experiment, you would find that this is true, for most (if not all!) people.
When you ask someone how they [...]
You have had it all along…
“The more you seek security, the less of it you have.
But, the more you seek opportunity,
the more likely it is that you will achieve
the security that you desire.”
Brian Tracy
I was thinking about how so many people are desperately grasping at attempts to secure promises about tomorrow- hoping against hope that if they line it all [...]