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Mental Health Moment: Choose Your Story

This #MentalHealthMoment video, invites you to #ChooseYourStory, so that you are not confined or undermined by the limiting story that you might be telling yourself. Instead, choose the story that works FOR you! TweetShareSharePin

Shot in the Dark

There?s nothing like a great glass of red wine. Recently I tried a new Austalian Shiraz (my favourite) called ?A Shot in the Dark?. Here is what was written on the bottle: Life has its ups and downs. It can be both brutal and beautiful. You can hole yourself away to avoid life?s pain, but…

Feeling ?Blue??

Often, at this time of year, I ? and others I know ? feel a little ?blue?. It?s cold outside (at least it is here in many parts of Canada), the holiday madness is over, and another year of goal setting and action planning is upon us. This ?blue? feeling is what has inspired me…

Move INTO A NEW GROOVE in 2010!

This is the time of year when many of us are thinking about the new year ahead of us. It is a common practice to begin thinking about resolutions for the new year. Of course, we all know the humour around New Year?s Resolutions?they often aren?t very long-lived (i.e. resolve on January 1, break the…

What is NLP?

I am often asked ?what is NLP??? I became a certified practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 1991.? After a brief exposure to it through a colleague, I instantly recognized how NLP could be useful to me ? in my work and in my life. NLP is an approach to positive personal change.? It? provides…

Spirit Week?Every Week!

I read an article this week?from one of my internet Google Alerts.? It was one of those articles that struck me ? instantly.? It was by Kim Smith and it was titled Sometimes we could all use a little spirit week.? Kim shared her findings from asking her daughter about?her favourite part of spirit week.?…

Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I recently returned from The First World Congress on Positive Psychology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.??In keeping with the P theme -?one word encapsulates my experience there: Powerful!? What follows is a summary of a few of my key?take-aways from the Congress. Ed Diener spoke on ?New Findings on Happiness?: there is a difference between wanting and…

Leadership is about Asking, not Telling

A client emailed me last week.?? ?Deri, I can?t stop thinking about what you said in the workshop?about how leaders often talk too much, when they should just be quiet and listen instead.?? During the workshop ?Emotional Intelligence: The Leader?s Advantage? I shared with the group something that Marshall Goldsmith shared with a thousand or…

Abundance or Scarcity?

A colleague sent me an email the other day.? It was a ?thank you? note for my generosity.? This colleague had asked me to speak with one of her contacts who is planning to start a speaking, training and consulting business such as mine.? My colleague was impressed at how freely I shared my experience…

The Positive Psychology of ?Meaning?

I dragged my butt over to the school to set up for Staff Appreciation Week.? ?How come it?s always the same people who volunteer for these things?? I muttered to myself, a bit resentfully.? My children?s school has over 600 students, and yet it appears that it is the same small group of parents?volunteering for…

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