Welcome back to Episode #28 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to identify your strengths, and how to leverage them best in all aspects of your life, including your daily interactions and communications with the world. This is inspired by Marcus Buckingham’s studies, StrengthFinder – check out my reviews when I read [...]
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I just don’t get it. People create brilliant businesses everyday. I mean, they struggle for months or years to put their precious ideas and dreams into a successful product or service and then don’t want to spread the word about it for fear of being self-promotional and heavens forbid, for offending someone along the way [...]
Are you waiting to get a nod of approval from your parents for pursuing a career or a life outside their ideal one for you? Are you hoping to be embraced by your friends about your recent decision to travel the world or choose an unusual lifestyle? Are you expecting a positively happy reaction from [...]
Jet lag confuses the living daylights out of me! I don’t mean the effect of jet lag on my body or brain because that alone can drive you dizzy with confusion. I mean I wish someone could explain to me why traveling from from North America to the South Pacific, where one loses many hours in [...]
Welcome back to Episode #24 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is about approaching our role models, the successful people with whom we want to interact and engage. All of us have role models in one form or fashion. Some are from historical figures, some are imaginary characters out of great literature, and yet [...]
Self-discipline can seriously surprise you when you put it to the test. You may believe you have a really good grasp on it because, well, you stick to your routine and schedule and produce remarkable results on a day-to-day basis, but how robust a discipline is it if that only happens in the controlled environment [...]
It is a beautiful warm night here in Queenstown, New Zealand where I write this today. Lake Wakatipu must be the largely undiscovered piece of heaven on earth. Once you see it, you shall never forget it. Mother Nature beckons you here with every breeze, every rustle and every ripple and with the fresh New [...]
For the Love of Productivity We all crave productivity. We want it now and we want it all the time and we certainly want it for the long-term. We can’t imagine being without it, especially when we are after something – a college degree, a certification program, a paper, a book, a speech, a website, [...]
Welcome back to another episode of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast! Today, Aileen and I look at breaking the cycle of negative thinking – goodness, is it ever possible? – and together, we review some tools to empower us towards positive thinking – yes, it is possible – and achieving our goals and dreams. [...]
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your limitations and imperfections, your worries and anxieties, or your doubts and fears, neither mattered nor materialized as you so desperately persist that they do? Just what if …
Welcome back to Episode #4 of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast. In this episode, we talk how you can say no and feel good about it and how you can get to yes on something that you really want. What are some of the root causes that compel us to say yes all the [...]
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being. ~Hafiz It turns out there is after all a name for that irrational, incessant and intrusive behavior which we so precisely insert between ourselves and success. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to recognize this [...]
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James You probably even experience the fatigue without knowing the real reason because procrastination is tricky business; it plays on your weaknesses and emotions but has no arm of logic supporting it. Let me prove it to you very simply:
Welcome back to Episode #2 of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast. In this episode, we talk about something that is vitally important for success and empowerment in our lives: Confidence (it even has a Wikipedia entry, imagine that!). We talk about the lack of confidence and the presence of self-doubt. We look at the [...]
Why I Hadn’t Talked About Financial Freedom as a Smart Habit? Sometimes the most obvious escapes us! Of all the smart habits and rich living ideas and opinions I have shared with you in nearly 300 blog articles, how is it that I have not yet talked about the single most important habit of all, [...]
