Ideas on joy, leadership, feelings and performance.
Because how people feel drives everything they do.
Emotional intelligence
Joy is the next competitive advantage! Happiness precedes success and all performance, creativity, innovation and team connection is linked to happiness at work! The latest research in neuroscience, epigenetics, emotional intelligence and positive psychology intersect at a point I call “the joy spot’’- the sweet spot for performance. Leaders need to make the workplace a…
Change
These are my current top 5 TEDx talks! Well there are actually 6, I have included myself in there just because I thought I had better show myself support! But these videos share with you great new ideas that can help you understand in deeper ways how you can change your thinking, and what…
Gratitude
Last week I was speaking to a lovely group in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. I was telling them about my niece’s first gym competition. At the time she was 9 and I was (and still am) a very doting and enthusiastic Aunt! In between exercises (which I must say were not that exciting and seemed to me…
Emotional intelligence
I believe excitement ‘jumps’! If someone is excited, enthusiastic and passionate about something, they ‘infect’ those around them with the virus! Of course, some people are more susceptible to the enthusiasm virus. Why choose to be someone, or hang around anyone, who dampens enthusiasm: a wet blanket who puts out the fire of life? Make…
Change
Mindfulness. It’s a buzz word right now. Businesses are more conscious of the bottom line results of being more mindful and teaching their people to do so. CEOs are being coached to be more mindful to improve their leadership skills. Students are being taught to be more mindful to perform better in tests, everyone is…
Leadership
Through my own experiences as a motivational keynote speaker on Leadership, along with my research and observations I have a come up with 21 habits that I believe successful leaders live by. They consistently feel good about themselves and believe in their own abilities. They help others to feel good about themselves and help others…
Emotional intelligence
Every meeting planner or leader is looking for a speaker who can facilitate changes within their organization or team. Whether it’s: to make this years event the ‘best ever’ to change the culture of the organization to help ‘change fatigued’ staff renew their energy, enthusiasm and vitality to change how people think to address sensitive…
Emotional intelligence
Do you choose to focus on what is going right in your life? It seems pretty much everything follows the 80/20 law, and I bet it’s no different in our lives. 80% of our lives are good, great or ok and 20% are other than positive. Joyful people focus on the 80% that is…
Gratitude
What things are you thankful for in your place of work? Go to work today with the specific intention of finding all the things you could be thankful for, and then be thankful for them! Your boss Your friends Your colleagues The intellectual stimulation The chance to learn Growth and development The relationships The…
Self development
STOP SPINNING! This post is about how to enjoy the Christmas season despite being sober! (oops I meant sane!) By the way, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, please insert your holiday wherever I mention Christmas. No one could convince me that the world is not spinning faster! Time really has sped up and I…
Health
Endorphins are the body’s natural happy drugs! Joy buddies! They make us feel great, happy, peaceful, relaxed and joyful. We can’t synthetically manufacture anything as powerful as endorphins, but humans can do things to produce them anytime! A simple way to release them is to put a big “silly” grin on our faces, …
Health
Originally written by Hilary Langford and expanded by me!, www.hilary.com.au Hilary Langford is a very talented organizational consultant and she originally wrote these commandments many years ago, but they are just as relevant today as they were then. Thanks Hilary for your creativity! I expanded them today! 1. Thou shalt not be perfect or…
Emotional intelligence
What do you want your life to look like at the end of the adventure of 2015? Grab a piece of paper (and maybe a glass of wine!) and make a list of all the areas on your life, work, family, relationship, health, finances, self, learning, growth, friends, lifestyle etc. Under each of those…
Tips for Success
Fear of failure is one of the main factors stopping people getting what they want. We can be so scared of failure that we don’t even bother trying! It’s one of the main factors that differentiates people who get what they want and those who don’t. What if we viewed mistakes as learning rather than…
Change
Robert Dilts is a well known American expert in neurolinguistics and writes frequently for a magazine called Anchor Point. In a past edition he was discussing the connection between beliefs and health or wellness. He introduced the concept of ‘thought viruses’. What a fantastic way of describing one of the most powerful mechanisms of illness…
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