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Go, go, go shawty It’s your birthday
And so it is. Today is my birthday and for some reason, perhaps because the word “birthday” is in the lyrics I remembered 50 cent’s ‘In da Club’. Of course the only part of the song I really ‘heard’ or for that matter understood was: Go, go, go, go Go, go, go shawty It’s your…
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Be who you were meant to be
I am always amazed when I get a call or an email telling me about the difference that I am making in people’s lives. This is not a boast post but just a post to say that we all have something that we need to share, to teach, to demonstrate, to stand for, to be…
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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…

