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The types of people we invite into our lives can have a huge impact on our mental and emotional health, and on our levels of success - however we define the idea of success. It's important to evaluate our relationships every once in awhile so that we can always strive to be our best - both for ourselves and for others.
Posted: 2010-02-14
Category: Self Improvement
How much autonomy is appropriate to give? Empowering our children, employees, or anyone we're leading is, we know, the best way to improve satisfaction, motivation, and commitment - but it also takes the right style to pull it off successfully.
Posted: 2010-02-09
Category: Business
We are all leaders on some level: whether or not we carry the formal title. We can all be leaders in any area in which we feel a sense of passion. It's an empowering thing to claim our personal leadership; and an important task to undertake so that we all do our part in creating a better world.
Posted: 2010-01-27
Category: Self Improvement
Our memories of the events in our lives and the roles we played in those events, for good or bad, may often be exaggerated or otherwise skewed. Undertstanding and admitting our fallibility as human beings allows us to be more critical in our assessments of the facts, as well as more compassionate toward ourselves and others.
Posted: 2010-01-03
Category: Self Improvement
There is much written about motivation and how to achieve and keep it. Unfortunately, motivation is one of those things that easily elude us. Where does motivation come from? How do we get it and make it stick?
Posted: 2010-01-03
Category: Self Improvement
In order to be successful in life (regardless of how we define the concept of succes) we need a plan. But our goal-setting and life plans can take many forms ranging from highly structured to fluid and flexible. It's up to each of us to decide which style best fits our needs and personalities, so that we can maintain a sense of empowerment and direction over our own lives.
Posted: 2009-12-26
Category: Self Improvement
Prompted by the vast amount of conflicting information about the Swine Flu vaccination, this article examines the difficulty around making sound decisions - in all areas of our life - when we don't have the information we need.
Posted: 2009-12-20
Category: Self Improvement
It's important to examine our preferred styles of leadership from time to time, particularly in regard to how we communicate. The better we can communicate the more effective we can be as leaders.
Posted: 2009-12-13
Category: Business
Our successes in life and work are usually the result of a combination of good planning, luck, and timing. It's important to remember and acknowledge the breaks we've had along the way, and the people who were willing to help quide us in the right direction through a simple conversation and the sharing of a few words of wisdom. Remembering this will help us to be mindful of returning that favour to others as they navigate their own paths.
Posted: 2009-12-11
Category: Business
The exercise of increased self-awareness can be approached from many different levels and perspectives. But it's particularly important to identify the immediately-applicable habits, patterns, and routines that either add to take away from the general quality of our lives on a daily basis. This article examines how we can learn to know ourselves better on this level.
Posted: 2009-12-09
Category: Self Improvement
There are a lot of misinformed and sensationalized 2012 doomsday predictions on the internet and the popular book stores. This fear-mongering is done largely in the pursuit of profit, and will undoubtedly cause undue levels of anxiety in many - particularly in our chidren. On the other side, this sensationalism may also be the catalyst that causes more of us to look more seriously at the long-term sustainability of our planet.
Posted: 2009-11-30
Category: Self Improvement
