This morning at our weekly MAC Toastmasters Meeting I was asked to give a short recap of my Saturday breakout session “Pumping Mental Iron”. One of the things I didn’t get to do on Saturday, since my time was shortened (read my last blog post) from 50 minutes to about 35-40 minutes, was to do [...]

I just arrived back home after delivering a breakout session on brainpower for Communicatiion ‘10, The District 7 Toastmasters Spring Conference at eh Oregon Convention Center. Because the introductory keynote ran a bit over, I had to cut our session short, so thought it would be helpful to post an outline for you, since we did rather race to [...]

Yesterday was one of those typical days: coaching calls, a presentation, a meeting, and some administrative tasks.  As I was looking at my calendar, realizing it was “kids over for dinner” night, (we have a family dinner once a week with the three kids, who are all in college at once, all locally, and often [...]

Finally! We’re starting to study the neuroscience behind  altruism and generosity, charity and empathy, and other positive emotions. How does it affect the brain, as opposed to other things we have studied, such as fight or flight responses, and addictions, etc. Check out this recent press release  http://tinyurl.com/yh2t8f2
Often when I bring up the topic of emotional [...]

 
It’s early Monday morning and I’m looking at my schedule for today.  All the typical things are fighting for my attention and need to be completed:  yoga, devotions, coaching sessions, proposal submissions, a keynote speech prepared, a power point presentation created, list of people called, copy reviewed, part of a chapter written for the book, thinking and reviewing [...]

In my executive coaching practice, it is my policy to bring a cutting-edge, thought-provoking guest speaker to my clients and customer base every month as value added, in the form of a teleconference. Every month I am amazed and impressed by our guest expert, but this month really took the cake.  I was privileged to [...]

You are a passenger on an airplane.  You look out the window of the place and the wing is on fire.  The oxygen masks drop down.  The flight attendants make an announcement that the pilot is going to have to make a crash landing on water.  You hear yelling: “Brace…Brace”.  People around you are starting [...]

All of us need to improve our decision making abilities in this business environment. 
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) measures your overall general intelligence. EQ (Emotional Quotient) measures your emotional intelligence: your ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  This is how effective leaders [...]

SECRET……The dictionary tells us that a secret (noun) is something that is kept hidden or concealed.
 
Most of us have been exposed to the tremendously successful movie and/or the book called “The Secret”, which contains knowledge that has been around for thousands of years, and it was packaged in an intriguing and ingenious way to attract [...]

Yes, I know you already belong to at least one mastermind group.  (If you don’t, join one today)
Just because you already belong to a Mastermind Group or two doesn’t mean you aren’t always on the lookout elsewhere for great ideas and thoughts, right??
You have a perfect opportunity starting right now to leverage your time spent [...]