Anytime we look upon a magazine cover, – insert any advertising example – what we think and feel about ourselves is being controlled by the ideal this cover portrays. It isn’t ideal. Ever. Take back control of your mind with this tool that rewires your brain on a neurological, unconscious Read more…
Goals are typically future-orientated, something to aspire and work towards. From the book, ‘Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do,’ by John Bargh, I’m learning that we make micro-goals all the time. These micro-goals affect our present-time decision-making and impact future events without our conscious Read more…
I have an accountability buddy who I speak to weekly for the development of my new Practical Emotional Intelligence course. Last night’s call, however, was less about the progress of our respective projects and more about the dramarama that is my employment status, which from one business consultant to another was Read more…
One of the hardest things to do when you’re feeling hurt and disappointed is to find things to be grateful for. Your Emotional Intelligence is comprised of building blocks, commencing with getting to know yourself and topped off with how you manage stress. Of your stress management skills is how well Read more…
In a workshop, I delivered last week on Practical Emotional Intelligence for Beginners, one of my attendees interjected with his own interpretation of the difference between sympathy and empathy, two terms that are often confused with each other. It got me to thinking, do I really know what the differences Read more…
Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t coming. It’s here. These are AI-generated faces. She could be a model for a Pantene commercial. She’s flawless. She’s fake. Humans are being replaced by AI in companies all around the world. In roles that are customer service and administration based. In sales, finance and banking Read more…
Grab a cuppa, I want to tell you a story. On Monday afternoon this week (today’s Saturday), my husband and I had an argument. About what is a story for the next blog post, when it’ll be relevant to the story, but suffice to say, it was bad enough for Read more…
When you think of going out on your own in business, one of the first and most significant mistakes people make is not realising to the extent just how out on your own you really are. Cliche time: Running a business is hard Within the company structure, you have all Read more…
At the end of 2015, I closed my first business to have my son. After six months of maternity leave, I felt lost and directionless. Full-time mothering wasn’t something I could do, I needed to use my brain for something more than learning how to activate nuts and brew kombucha. Read more…
I had a powerful experience of ego in a conflict that I wrote about in my last article – Responsibility in Conflict Resolution – after which a reader asked me to talk about ego in more detail. Thinking about ego, it made me realise that I do see it differently. Read more…