What do you see as the allure of working or playing on a team? Learning a new skill? Making new friends? Increasing your happiness quotient, i.e., your positive emotions? Martin Seligman discovered the difference between extremely happy and extremely miserable…
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. messages.365greetings.com Last week’s blog created such a positive response from readers I decided to continue along its theme of workplace wellbeing. Wellbeing, from my perspective, focuses our attention on what we want to…
It’s time we wake up to the fact we have created toxic workplace environments that may not be killing us outright but certainly are destroying our health, happiness, humanity and creativity. Unfortunately, this has been going on far too long. …
It is that time of year again when we find ourselves developing a set of personal and professional goals for 2014. Whether it is organizations requesting services for strategic planning or individuals desiring coaching support, December and January bring forth…
You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well you know We all want to change the world The Beatles When we consider the word revolution,…
When attempting to define compassion, many begin by describing it as non-judgment. As someone who wishes to focus on what I want in life rather than what I don’t want (negativity), I would much rather describe the experience of compassion…
Life isn’t a business to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived. Osho In a recent speaking engagement, I used archetypes to help those attending answer the following question — Who am I Really? An archetype is an…
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) holds the genetic instructions that enable all living things to function, grow and reproduce. Typically, we speak of DNA in reference to species development. However, I have also heard DNA used as a metaphor for organizational functioning…
If little labour, little are our gains: Man’s fate is according to his pains. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1650) In 1982 when Jane Fonda touted the words, “No pain, no gain,” she was referencing a physical exercise motto intended to build…
In 2004, as part of my yoga teacher training, I wrote the following essay on sacrifice. As with most of my initial thoughts on any subject, much of what emerged reflected my intuition and early experience of what needed to…
In 2011, I wrote a blog echoing the current duality of living as a global society with a foot in each of two economic paradigms — competition and collaboration. At that time, I offered a middle ground of “do no…
I was inspired to write this blog in response to an interesting question from a recent dinner conversation — “How did we, as a global society, get to this point in our evolution?” What proceeded was much discourse around…
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