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: Opportunities

Emotional Intelligence Workshop

September 22, 2008 – 4:22 pm

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

September 20, 2008 – 2:11 pm

“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 [...]

Write it down!

July 15, 2008 – 11:10 am

“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

June 12, 2008 – 11:31 am

“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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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 [...]

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 [...]

You have had it all along…

March 31, 2008 – 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 [...]

Time~

March 9, 2008 – 10:00 pm

“We must not allow the clock
and the calendar
to blind us to the fact
that each moment of life
is a miracle and a mystery.”
H. G. Wells
Today was the first day of daylight savings.
There is the camp that loves it, because it stays later an hour longer.
There are those that hate it, because the mornings will be darker.
Then, [...]

Powerful beyond measure…

February 25, 2008 – 3:06 pm

 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us…
And as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates [...]

What?!

February 7, 2008 – 2:50 pm

“Nothing will work
unless you do.”
Maya Angelou
She was waiting.
She was sure that this year would be better than last year, and so she was waiting to see what happened.
She wanted to “wait and see” if her job would get any better.
She wanted to “wait and see” if her relationship would go to the next level.
She just [...]