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It’s a New Year!
Well not exactly…but it can be for you – especially if you haven’t been getting the results you want in your business or life. Most of us know how to set goals. WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT! WE KNOW HOW TO GET IT! Jeez…if I want to lose weight all I have to do is…
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Don’t Reset the Goal…Revise the Plan
Planning has been on my mind a lot these days. In the main because I’ve set out to experience my best year yet and am realizing that to do so, my actions every single day must move me closer to aligning with my definite purpose or else I’m simply walking from one day to the…
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Become Curious and Turn a Bad Day into Good Data
It’s important to recognize the adjustment process as we attempt to make changes in our lives. No matter how brilliant our intentions and plans are sometimes they just don’t work. Or sometimes they DO work …for a time. Then we hit a snag, a wall, encounter temptation and BAM! We’re smack in the middle of…
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Do Women Know What They Want?
I was having breakfast recently with an old co-worker turned mastermind colleague and friend. We were exchanging what men like to call ‘war’ stories of what was going on in our businesses and lives and what we were presently ‘battling’ with. We looked at where we were, working together at the same company, and where…
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A Trinbagonian’s strength is his character
“I could write a book about what is wrong with Trinidad and Tobago, but I could fill a library about what is good about it”. My friend and colleague Nigel Wall had this up recently as his Facebook status – inspired by Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones accomplished speaker and writer (with over 5000 seminars under his…
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Profit is NOT a bad word!
Just finished reading George Cloutier’s ‘Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing’, and it got me thinking about how I usually address profit. I’d say mostly as an afterthought – but not any more! Aren’t we in business to make a profit? I’m not sure where ‘profit’ got its bad rap but going into 2011…
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Too many *whatevers* spoil the broth
My favorite – Japanese Vegetable Nabe… ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth’ has been used in actual kitchens but also in everyday activities meaning too many persons involved in managing an activity can ruin it. So can: setting too many goals result in none being attained focusing on paying off all your debts at once…
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Wine and Meat vs. Rum and Roti
A Chinese aphorism states: “The wise individual’s friendship is as light as water. The small minded person’s relationship is as sticky and sweet as honey.” A couple years ago I decided to end a friendship. I found the relationship to be very draining – the person to be sometimes reproachful. I remember another friend voicing…
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Henry’s Psalm
Quite perfectly called “A Psalm For Life” – if ever you needed a lesson in living in the now, or some encouragement when you’re not seeing results as fast as you would like, this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow should not be further than an arm’s length away so that you could read and get…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
When the stakes are high, DON’T MOVE without CLARITY
You don’t need to move faster.
You need to reduce unnecessary risk.
When your decision affects income, reputation, or stability,
pause with structure before you act.
Giselle Hudson | Business Diagnostic Specialist | Clarity before high-stakes decisions 