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.

 

Category Archives: Inspiration/Motivation

If you love it…

August 16, 2010 – 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 [...]

If you wish…

August 9, 2010 – 4:53 pm

“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 [...]

Leaving Your Comfort Zone

April 3, 2010 – 7:34 am

“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

If you never push yourself,
you’re never know what you’re capable of doing.
You’ve played it safe, for a long time,
in so many areas of your life.
Playing it safe means you aren’t really playing at all..
you’re watching.

Sometimes it can work to stay nestled in that [...]

You have had it all along…

March 11, 2010 – 12:17 pm

“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 [...]

What if Change IS Security?!

February 20, 2010 – 8:31 am

“Security can only be achieved through constant change,
through discarding old ideas
that have outlived their usefulness
and adapting others to current facts.”

William O. Douglas
Live on the edge…
Today, do something that most never have the courage, or the faith, to do.

Take inventory of your life.
What does that mean, and how does one do it?
Simple.
Answer these questions…

What is working [...]