Awakening Potentials

There is a client of ours, let’s call him Tom, who recently became the top salesperson in his company.  This has been no mean achievement that took lots of work over the years.  And kudos to him for all of his efforts. But here is what drives me nuts. A former top salesman in the … Continue →

Here is a true story about being uncomfortable yet? Johnny Carson once told the story of a dancing duck in a Vegas casino.  He walked by a display with a live duck inside.  There were glass walls around the outside and the duck was inside,  just sitting there.  The machine had a sign that said … Continue →

Waking Up Maybe it is that I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital and so many people I know work for one of the various governments in this region.  Or maybe it is because we have had more snow this Christmas season than in the last 2 years combined.  Or maybe it is because we … Continue →

Stress, that never ending pressure that eventually gets to all of us.  And the causes of stress, well, it boils down to two things, Love or Money.  I mean, what else is there? But no matter the cause, we all need Stress Busters So here are a few ideas to cope with stress: Loud Music while … Continue →

Anyone who is anyone knows of Leroy Jethro  Gibbs of NCIS fame has heard the phrase, “Listen to your gut.” Listen to Your Gut Just in case you don’t know, Gibbs is in the centre of the photo. And in episode after episode, by using his gut, or his intuition, Gibbs and his team are … Continue →

Worked with a client the other day who had to go to a cocktail party as part of work. She wasn’t confident on handling cocktail parties. “… handling cocktail parties, I absolutely hate them” And now it was a part of her job description. Love them or hate them, they can be a useful tool to … Continue →

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s coined the term Synchronicity.  To put it as simply as possible, it is when two or more events happen together in a meaningful way. There are so many examples of this happening that I won’t take your time  to give one.  They are so common that we … Continue →

We have all heard that expression, “In the blink of an eye, everything changed”.  And I have to tell you I hear that said to me by clients on a daily basis. Everything is going along in one’s life and the future looks great, “pedal to the metal baby, it’s full speed ahead”.  And then … Continue →

Some people think that a multivitamin is a multivitamin. That all are relatively the same. I used to think so and in that scenario, cheaper is better. Of course all that changed when I learned how to muscle test and discovered that some vitamins are better absorbed than others. And all the while, scientists ignored what are called PHYTONUTRIENTS. These are chemicals that are in foods that cause a blue berry to be blue and that cause that garlic smell in a clove of garlic. But we, the scientific world didn\'t know what they did. And so we threw them out and ignored them. Until recently that is. Read More

My brother Michael has a saying he uses when anyone says to him, “Boy Mike, have you ever been lucky with your business.” His answer, “Yes, and the harder I work, the luckier I get”. Hard Work equals Good Luck? It’s obvious that without effort, nothing will change, but is Luck just the result of … Continue →