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

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 [...]

The Reward of Effort

February 10, 2010 – 6:05 pm

“I always tell the kids,
‘you know what’s great about going the extra mile?
There’s very little traffic.’ ”

Jim Larrangaga
It is often acceptable to be good enough.
A lot of people do just what they need to do to get by…
and, they do get by.
They aren’t blazing new paths or leaving lasting impressions.
They are not making waves or [...]

Unchartered territory…

February 1, 2010 – 4:16 pm

“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.”

mark strand

Does this help?
Does this give the permission (and the freedom) to being open to learning?
Does this hold the potential, the promise,
and the possibility for growth?

If each moment is a place you have never been, could that make room in life for you to accept any imperfections or [...]

Is this what you want…?

January 20, 2010 – 3:21 pm

“Most people are so busy knocking themselves out
trying to do everything they think they should do,
they never get around to do what they want to do.”
Kathleen Winsor
She was so angry.
Initially it didn’t make sense, and it was hard to follow.
Her friend had finished a training program, in an area she loved,
left her job, and opened [...]

Forever

December 7, 2009 – 4:38 pm

This was written after sitting with a mother,
as she tried to explain how she feels living through another day
of her daughter’s addiction, and was first shared in December 2007.
I am posting it again, because there have been several people
that have recently shared stories of addiction that they are facing in their families.
This is an issue [...]