Today, upon hearing about my work, a person commented, “Oh, my brother doesn’t have any emotional intelligence.” Ah, yeah. Nah. He does. It’s a myth that we either have or don’t have emotional intelligence. We all have emotional intelligence. EQ is a set of emotional and social skills that you Read more…
It would be erroneous to put one’s leadership style under an umbrella term, like servant or transformational. As a result of globalisation, a leader isn’t ‘or’, they are ‘and.’ They are servant and transformational, and all other leadership nomenclatures. Global leadership requires the leader to be malleable to those they lead and Read more…
He called me nasty. It wasn’t a mistake, he repeated it several times. My hurt was immediate and evident, I could feel the tears begin to well. I ended the video call promptly with a “can we discuss this later, I need to take a moment?” A go-to tool I Read more…
He called you dumb if you believe the Influencer’s BS: “It’s not easy to make $10k a month online,” said one of my favourite BS-smashing Influencers, Luke Matthews. “Influencers are lying to you, and you are dumb for believing it…” He inspired me to think of a kind way to call Read more…
Two different employers, same issue with employee’s pay. Two very different ways of handling it. The employee’s pay didn’t hit their accounts as scheduled. Employer A told the employee to check their account, stating it must be a problem with their bank because he was paid. After the employee did Read more…
In the past three weeks since the birth of my second child, I’ve come to appreciate just how different I am from who I was when I had my first child. Over the course of six years since No.1’s birth, I have studied NLP, Hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy® and become Read more…
One of the only things we’re guaranteed is impermanence. We’re guaranteed that nothing will ever be the same, remain as it is and as we’d like it to be. Many people fear the idea of this. I love it. I love that we can’t rely on anything to remain the Read more…
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…