how much truth can you accept about yourself?

Do you believe everything that’s said about you? Do you believe everything you’ve said, are saying about yourself? Not knowing who you really are is keeping you stuck. What do I mean? There are many things that have been said to us, about us…stuff we’ve just accepted as truth. Perhaps someone we admired said it,Continue reading “how much truth can you accept about yourself?”

We face locust attacks daily

I’m missing out on a lot of news. I am not a newsmonger for starters, but between Donald Trump, Covid-19 and the revelation that underneath the “all ah we is one family” blanket, we as a people in Trinidad & Tobago have a closet full of race hatred, I have completely stopped looking at anyContinue reading “We face locust attacks daily”

How to Plan an Attack on Your Addiction to Comfort

*This article was also published in my weekly column in the Trinidad and Tobago Business Newsday Jan 16 2014 Robert D. Smith, author of 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course for Mastering Life Right Now, says that every day we face a battle against two thoughts: Will this ever work? Am I good enough? HeContinue reading “How to Plan an Attack on Your Addiction to Comfort”

Results or Reasons – Which do you have more of?

Every day I read something that would make me stretch – want to be a better me. This morning this paragraph stood out for me from John Mason’s book *You were Born an Original (Don’t Die a Copy)* If you are NOT getting the results you want, the REASONS are the lies you keep tellingContinue reading “Results or Reasons – Which do you have more of?”

One Thing Worth Working On…

If there is one thing worth working on, it’s the INNER SELF. Regardless of the way that works for you, it is the TRUE path. It is where FREEDOM lies – Kamal Ravikant [capitalization mine] I’m reading Kamal’s book now called “Live your Truth”. I think we all need to determine what TRUTH is forContinue reading “One Thing Worth Working On…”

Keep Your Job or Tell the Truth?

You have to understand: most people were scared around Bezos because they were waaaay too worried about trying to keep their jobs. People in high-level positions sometimes have a little too much personal self-esteem invested in their success. Can you imagine how annoying it must be for him to be around timid people all dayContinue reading “Keep Your Job or Tell the Truth?”

This may be the Missing Link in your Ability to Lead Effectively

The Leadership Diamond®, created by Peter Koestenbaum, Ph.D., is a model of the leadership mind and a methodology for expanding leadership. The Diamond distinguishes four interdependent leadership imperatives, or “orientations”: Ethics, Vision, Courage and Reality. These orientations are your inner resources, always available to help you if you access them. The relationship among the fourContinue reading “This may be the Missing Link in your Ability to Lead Effectively”

Unblock and Unlock

I’m reading Eric Liu’s ‘Guiding Lights’ at the moment. It’s about the people who lead us to our purpose in life – which I think is actually MY purpose. Not to TELL you WHAT your purpose is but to help you discover it – discover yourself, your gifts. Only when you are YOU will youContinue reading “Unblock and Unlock”

Torn between loyalty and keeping the peace –

Here is one woman’s fight with her truth! [ This article was published in the Trinidad and Tobago Express Woman’s Magazine in 2007] Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: “A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.” On the basis of what is “acceptable” many conclude that if everyone is doing or thinkingContinue reading “Torn between loyalty and keeping the peace –”

The “Easily Shared” Narrative May not be the REAL Story

We LOVE a good story. Storytelling gets our attention. We are programmed if we only get the beginning and the middle to desperately want to know the end. That’s why soap operas and popular television series leave us after each episode with an incomplete storyline that will force us to tune in next time andContinue reading “The “Easily Shared” Narrative May not be the REAL Story”