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Deri’s blogs and video posts include emerging information, tools, tips, and strategies for living a positive, mentally-healthy life – at work and beyond!
What Are You Thinking?
For this post, I am sending you to a LinkedIn post from Dan Pink, about the highest form of intelligence, metacognition. Thinking about your thinking. I’ve practiced this for over a decade, and share parts of it in my keynotes. Tired of being hijacked by your emotions? Looking for more self-awareness and self-control? Practice a…Feeling Anxious? Try this Four-Step Strategy to Move Forward
Worry. It can keep you up at night. It can get in the way of your enjoyment of the day. It can prevent you from connecting with other people. It can make you sick. Worry is often accompanied by the same thought, or thoughts, being cycled through your brain. Some people might call it ruminating.…
May is Mental Health Month: Try this Simple Strategy for a Happier You
Years ago, from an audience full of senior leaders, a gentleman approached me as I exited the stage. “What you were describing in your keynote…I like to call ‘Presume Innocence’.” Instantly, I was struck by it’s simplicity. Presume Innocence. At a basic level, presuming innocence means to decide, to choose to believe – ahead of…
The Best Sales Person in the World is Curious, Caring, and Connected
We met him while travelling in Rarotonga, on the Cook Islands off the coast of New Zealand. Douglas Tetupuariki, of Aunty Pat’s Coco Candy is, indeed, “The Best Sales Person in the World”. The reasons for the moniker “Best Sales Person” is not because he sells a lot (although I believe he does very well),…
Get Creative To Protect Your Organizational ‘Assets’
Having just returned from a trip to New Zealand, I was impressed with this incredibly beautiful country! Beyond it’s natural physical beauty, New Zealand is a country that seems to model it’s values at every turn. It is indeed one of the cleanest, friendliest and most environmentally responsible countries on the globe. It also seems…
Why You Need To Lead With Love
I remember early in my career, I heard a business speaker talk about ‘love’; he said that a leader’s purpose, their contribution, their significance in an organization is to perpetuate ‘love’. I recall at the time being perplexed. What could ‘love’ have to do with ‘work’? I saw them as two very different, unrelated life…
Program Happy: Hack Your Brain to Get More of What You Want
This month we have another VLOG, inspiring you to begin ‘programming’ happiness into your life. What makes you happy? What does happy look like to you? Do you ‘work’ for happiness? TweetShareSharePin
Let Go So You Can Hold On
This month, we bring a VLOG…a video post! We hope to do more of them! Please let us know what you think! Enjoy this message on letting go…. TweetShareSharePin
5 Strategies to Make it a Jolly Holiday
The holidays can be stressful. There’s alot to do, and the pressure is on to prepare food, entertain, and decorate your home. That’s all on top of the shopping! Many of us love the holidays! We relish in the merry songtrack playing in the malls (with all the online shopping, isn’t it amazing that the…
The 5 Habits of Psychological Resilience
Resilience. When you look at or hear that word, do you find yourself thinking “What is it? And, how can I get some of that?” The word conjures up incredible images of strength and flexibility, of being adaptable, of possessing the ability to bounce back from the challenges of life. Resilience is the ability to…


