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The World According to Garp et al
Not because it works for you makes it right! I’m struggling with this right now – my world – the world according to Giselle. Isn’t that how it is for most of us? Our frame of reference, beliefs, conditionings over long stretches of time create what we call our truth and we lock into and…
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Finding the courage within
When we think of acts of courage we focus on heroic acts of bravery – the person who risks her life to run through fire to save her baby; the activist who resides in a huge tree in a forest day and night to save the forest; the person who risks their lives daily to…
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Start right now, where you are – with what you got!
After graduation, Mr. Ferriss moved to California, taking a job in sales at a data storage company. Frustrated by his salary and what he considered to be inefficiencies at the company, he began spending his days surfing the Web and building his own Internet business. About a year later, he was laid off, yet by…
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Why is EXCELLENT customer service so elusive?
I honestly don’t think people realize it WHEN they’re doing it but it’s a shame with all the knowledge about excellent service = excellent profits that the service experience ratio seems to be one great experience to every one hundred bad. Just to make sure that I was using the correct word I checked the…
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Save Time and Energy – Read the Instructions!
Had to laugh at myself this morning. I was assembling a garden bench. “This should be suck-eye (‘simple’ in trini vernacular)” I looked at the diagram, made sure I had all the nuts, washers, bolts, spanner and allen key and set out to work. Well when I tried to attach the seat – it couldn’t…
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Need some inspiration?
I was reminded today by Timothy Ferris about the importance of setting goals and the reality of the world we live in today. To say that I was encouraged would be an understatement! Hope his words have the same effect on you as they did me. It’s lonely at the top. 99% of the world…
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Who is she and what is she to you?
I was thinking about this in the context of the person I am today and whether or not I was being REAL – being ME? Or was it that I was an assortment of habits, perceptions and things that over the years I learned to accept as my truth when in fact I just borrowed…

