Sometimes It Comes Down to a Choice

Last week I was for­tu­nate enough to be a par­tic­i­pant in a two day lead­er­ship retreat. I was one of among thirty or so regional lead­ers cho­sen for a year long train­ing pro­gram where par­tic­i­pants will be involved in the devel­op­ment of a com­mu­nity based project. The two day lead­er­ship retreat was the first time every­one involved in the year long train­ing pro­gram would be get­ting together. When I found out that I was going to be one of the peo­ple cho­sen to go through the course, I was really happy and look­ing for­ward to being part of the group. That was back in Novem­ber of last year.

As the time for the retreat come closer, I began to think about how the retreat would be han­dled by the staff orga­niz­ing it. Read more

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A Friend’s Diagnosis

We all have sto­ries to share. Some peo­ple have good sto­ries, oth­ers have bad ones, but all of them are sto­ries that talk about a person’s life and what they have learned in the process. You may find your­self in the future (if you haven’t already) learn­ing about a per­sonal strug­gle a close friend of yours is going through. You may find your­self look­ing at your life in a dif­fer­ent way after learn­ing about your friends strug­gle. I thought it was impor­tant for me to share with my read­ers what a friend of mine told me she was going through for the past year. In actu­al­ity she was going through it for most of her life. She just didn’t know it. Her story made me reflect a lit­tle on my own life.

A Friend Con­fided In Me

Recently a friend of mine, Linda, opened up to me about an issue she’s been fac­ing for a long time. Read more

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Part of Emotional Intelligence is Self-Awareness…Unfortunately, Not Everyone Knows That!

At a recent con­fer­ence, a series of sem­i­nars were being given on the sub­ject of Emo­tional Intel­li­gence or EQ (a.k.a  EI). I’ve been to many such sem­i­nars and so have many of my friends and col­leagues. What I find puz­zling though is how many peo­ple say they know all about emo­tional intel­li­gence and yet their acts show that they prob­a­bly haven’t got a clue of what it is and the way it can be used.

EQ is not sim­ply about read­ing and under­stand­ing other peo­ple. One of the main points of emo­tional intel­li­gence is read­ing and under­stand­ing our­selves and what makes up our own per­sonal emo­tions (both from a phys­i­cal as well as a men­tal per­spec­tive). Hav­ing an under­stand­ing of only one side of EQ defeats many of the pur­poses for it. Read more

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Finding Time for Things, Finding Time for You

It’s amaz­ing how time can be on your side one moment, and then act­ing against you the next. Recently, I found myself almost run­ning out of time for quite a few of my respon­si­bil­i­ties not to men­tion respon­si­bil­i­ties to myself. For me, the last few weeks have sim­ply been an avalanche of things, both at work and in my per­sonal life. During all this, I found myself think­ing every­one has the same 168 hours in a week. So how do some peo­ple han­dle so much while oth­ers can barely han­dle keep­ing up with just a few things?

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Some Interesting Facts about Laughing that You May Not Have Known

One of my favorite per­sonal real­iza­tions is that life is too short not to enjoy it. Don’t get me wrong, I have my dif­fi­cult and chal­leng­ing days from time to time (some­times more than expected and/or wanted). With that said, I fig­ured one very quick and sim­ple way a per­son can enjoy life is by find­ing some­thing funny and hav­ing a good laugh.

Did You Know Laughter:

Is a great team builder and social equal­izer – When we laugh with Read more

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Re-branding Yourself (Part 2): More On Personal Branding and Some Great Resources

At the request of many who wrote to me about my “Re-Branding Your­self” post I’ve writ­ten a con­tin­u­a­tion on the sub­ject of “Branding/Re-Branding”. Thanks for all the emails and com­ments received!

Radio City Music Hall was packed to capac­ity with many of the enter­tain­ment industry’s elite and tele­vi­sion crews were ensur­ing that 27 mil­lion peo­ple were able to watch live. The show was not even an hour old when WOW, what a shock! The peo­ple in atten­dance and watch­ing on TV the 2009 Video Music Awards (VMAs) wit­nessed Kanye West inter­rupt Tay­lor Swift’s accep­tance speech for Best Female Video to basi­cally say that another artist nom­i­nated for the same award should have won. Do you think Kanye West’s brand was affected by what he did? You bet­ter believe that it was.

The brand­ing process for a per­son, includ­ing myself, is a never end­ing, ongo­ing process that a per­son needs to be aware of. Why? Because every­thing we do and say, and every­thing we Read more

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Re-Branding Yourself

I was recently at a great net­work­ing and pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment event in down­town Hart­ford, CT. Nope, not the “get­Mo­ti­vated tour” with Colin Pow­ell, Steve Forbes and oth­ers (even though I heard that was a great event in itself), but another one a day later orga­nized by a few local pro­fes­sional orga­ni­za­tions.  The main keynote speaker gave a pre­sen­ta­tion about “Re-Branding Your­self: How Do You Rebrand Your­self in this Cur­rent Busi­ness Envi­ron­ment?” and it made me think about how many peo­ple today don’t real­ize the impor­tance of how their brand is seen.

If you don’t know or aren’t aware of what I’m talk­ing about, a brand is how another per­son or orga­ni­za­tion sees you and the ser­vices you pro­vide (or don’t pro­vide). Your “per­sonal brand” is key to the suc­cess of what­ever you wish to Read more

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Success is Failure Turned Inside Out

Have you ever won­dered how some peo­ple can keep on going with a project or an idea after expe­ri­enc­ing set­back after set­back after set­back? How can peo­ple con­tinue to move on with an idea, or a busi­ness, or an endeavor after an appar­ent heartache forces them to stop (at least temporarily)?

If you’ve ever met any­one who says they’ve not had a tough time in their life or that they never had a rough day, then you’ve met a per­son who Read more

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Wow! What an Honor!

Wow! What an honor! This site has been added to Guy Kawasaki’s “AllTop.com” list of best sites of the web for Per­sonal Achieve­ment. I have been a fan of the All­Top site for a while now.

Called the  “online mag­a­zine rack” of pop­u­lar top­ics, AllTop.com is a site with a large amount of links to great news sites, blogs, ser­vices and more.

As for the next set of posts for this site…more to come!

Stay Strong and Choose to Enjoy Your Day!

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How Strong Are Your Habits?

They say the secret of your future is hid­den in your daily rou­tine and the below addresses it very well. Although many have claimed fame to it, the offi­cial author is anony­mous. I came across this a num­ber of years back and it struck a strong cord with me then as it does now. I printed it out and I have it hang­ing on my wall in my office so that I can be reminded of the impor­tant les­son it reminds us of.

This has made such a strong impact on my life that I wanted to share it with you!

The secret for you is hid­den in Read more

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