The greatest disease in the 21st Century is lack of self-esteem. Most people don’t know what they have going for them. The time has come to encourage each other to get out of our head and step into our greatness. In order to become who and what you are meant to be, sometimes part of you [...]
Have you even thought about watching yourself? It is all about observing and getting yourself involved in the right thinking. I first learned about watchfulness when I lived in the west of Ireland. One of my greatest mentors in life was a priest called Fr. Jimmey O’Connell who taught me the gift of observing and [...]
What rules in your life hold you back? What rules no longer serve you? To dream big and play big in life, we have to let go of what no longer serves us. While speaking to a great friend and business associate Louise from Minneapolis recently, we were talking about the baggage of life. She [...]
Are you currently living a life where you are excited to get out of bed each day? If not, why not? I recently saw a short video of Les Brown and he spoke about the two best days of our lives. The first being the day you were born and the second being the day [...]
As the last months of 2010 pass by, this is the time of year when I take time to reflect, press the pause button and stop. Business wise and family wise it has been a successful year. Why? Because I stopped being busy all the time on what didn’t matter and became busy with what’s [...]
Life is meant to be simple. However, in this fast changing world we sometimes complicate life and add too much fluff. We become emotionally constipated which can lead us to feel de-motivated and often feelings of self-doubt can creep in. I encourage you to let go and simplify work to eliminating any destructive inner conversations [...]
Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘do the difficult things first’? What if for the next thirty days you started the day with what you found difficult in life. I tried the experiment in September. I got up every morning and started with what I had most resisted in my life… EXERCISE! I had resisted [...]
If you want to see more kindness in the world, give it out… I was recently on my way home after speaking at a conference and drove through the village where I live. I went into the corner shop to pick up some bread and milk and there was a boy of about five or [...]
Have you ever stopped and pondered on what resonance you will leave behind when your work is done? I was recently completing a Leadership Programme within a large corporate and as the organisation was closing one building down, we were asked to complete the programme within another of its buildings on site. As we walked [...]
