All Entries Tagged With: "Letting go"

One of the key differences between managers who manage up close and those that let go is how they react when their staff run into difficulties, whether over a piece of work that they can’t get right, a relationship in the team that isn’t quite working, or indeed something outside work that is affecting them.

“There’s no such thing as a mistake.” Ha!

This is one of my favourite New Age doozers. Puhleez. Like, getting hosed because you didn’t get it in writing wasn’t a major drag. And spilling your friend’s secret to the wrong person burnt that bridge to a crisp. Or not saying “yes!” to the one that got away – well, THAT sucked. There are such things as mistakes. Major screw-ups and human stupidity happen to the best of us. The rest of us are in denial.

I’ve taken some time this month to clean out my Gmail inbox, the main goal being to have a completely empty inbox. I went through each email one by one, until I got to the very last entry. It was labeled “journal” and dated 12/14/06. I knew it was there for me to print and [...]

Everything is beautiful in its own way…. My granny used to have a mango tree on her lawn. One evening strolling around her garden, I saw a chameleon sitting on the mango tree. The chameleon had just jumped from the creeper and its colour was slowly changing from green to brown. Suddenly a thought pumped [...]

Are you tired of trying again and again? Are you are bored of doing what you don’t want to do? If you no longer believe in ‘Never Give Up’…. If you believe your old pattern of life can’t work anymore…. If you are too stressed and unhappy… Then why don’t you give up? Free yourself! [...]

I often feel like the horses in Central Park. You know, those horses with blinkers on, pulling their carriages, trotting up and down the cobblestone path. I imagine that the blinkers help to keep me focused on my life’s purpose. The blinkers force me to set my sights dead straight ahead and as I toil [...]

“Don’t worry son, you’ll figure it out once your career hits off, trust me now, and study what I want you to.” “Oil your hair regularly son, else you’ll lose it before you hit thirty.” “Its just a phase, you’ll figure it out don’t worry, you’re just a teenager.” Seems like yesterday when I was [...]

And so the cycle of life continues continues along for another generation. Sons are born, fathers brim with pride and expectations abound. But with the years they grow apart and there are bruising conflicts along the way. But usually the relationship survives in one form or another.

Life is all about choices.
I came to realise.
I also came to realise that my main choice in life has been to walk.

Unhappiness is the difference between what you have and what you want. Frustration is the prime symptom of unhappiness. With our hectic and money-focused modern lifestyle, frustration has become as common as breathing. It leads us to feeling helpless, angry and insecure

am not against using Facebook. I believe it’s the best networking site (I am a Facebook user as well). But I am amazed to see the outrageous Facebook fad taking control of so many lives among people of all ages.

After a stressful day of daily chores, I finally made some time to do laundry. I rushed towards the laundry shop as the time to close was approaching. I put all my clothes in machine and I sat to wait till my clothes were washed. It was Independence day in Belgium and everything was closed. [...]

My friends tease me that my pseudonym is “How is it relevant”. I use this phrase very often and for most situations because it helps focus my mind. Let me share this secret with you. Scene 1. The boss is firing the hell out of a person and the person is miserable. Scene 2. The [...]

This weekend my son and I ended up at a Sand Mandala ceremony guided by Tibetan Monks. I just vaguely remembered that something about monks was going on at the Chinese Gardens, and we just happened to arrive as the ceremony was beginning. And there was a prayer carpet in the front row that was [...]

In a family where communication has not been encouraged and allowed to flourish, this becomes a bubbling volcano. Soon it erupts, ignited usually by the youngsters as the elders are conditioned to control emotions and reactions.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending – Carl Bard Frustration! It is a word which is commonly associated with feelings of helplessness and sometimes rage. So is there a way out? The answer is a big Yes! Any [...]

One of my visits to the beach left me thinking about the term, ‘sea change.’ What exactly is the connection between ‘sea’ and ‘change’? Delving into the dictionary for its meaning, I was able to figure out that it can mean: transformation, a u-turn, reversal, change of heart, etc. Etymologically speaking, William Shakespeare used the [...]

Whenever the 3 of Swords appears in someone’s tarot reading I wince. The card of heartbreak, sorrow and betrayal symbolizes deep emotional pain in the querent’s life in the past, present or future, depending on where it turns up in the spread. And as all of us know, pain is hard enough to experience but [...]

Some very cool things happen when I’m jamming with Fire Starters. Aha’s, elevated perspectives, connections. But my favourite phenomenon is when someone decides, with a nudge, to give up on what’s not working. Throw in the towel. Close shop. Call it quits. In the last month or so, I’ve witnessed two store closings, three blog [...]

Push. Push. Push. And if that doesn’t accelerate the dream quickly enough, then push from a different angle. But keep pushing – that’s a given, right? Nope. Pushing maintains the swirl. Sometimes, what’s out of sight and zooming toward you isn’t quite here yet. A leap in another direction doesn’t always land you in a [...]

“People change all the time and forget to tell each other.” Lillian Hellman Change is a marvelous thing to celebrate. Acknowledging growth helps us to keep on growing. Taking stock of the leagues you’ve traveled is especially useful for those of us who drive ourselves so hard to be – whatever we’re craving to be. [...]

I used to dance on tables. With clothes on of course, and relatively sober, all it took was The Doors’ Roadhouse Blues or Billy Idol’s Dancing With Myself (oh oh oh-oh…) and you could count on me to find a speaker or a table top to worship. Now…not so much. I went dancing I think…hmmm. [...]

In this wonderful journey of Life, there are lessons to learn from anyone whom we all come across…lessons from sportsmen, businessmen, CEO’s and cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are said to be a small crowd across the globe, and it makes them very special and unique for what they do – fly across continents to be at sports [...]

Whenever we think of children, the word which comes to our mind is ‘mischief’ and ‘naughtiness’. But have you ever stopped and thought for a while, how much we can learn from these little kids around us? These little bundles of joy can actually give you an insight into your life. Every day just watching [...]

I love the expression “tickled by life”. You should really choose to live like that. I choose to see all the small “tickles” that life gives me, and by the fact that I actively choose to see them. I choose to live my life forward, and I choose happiness actively every day. I choose to [...]

When we give something we are always keeping a track of every penny that is going out but when we are receiving we feel that we have never received enough. And then we compare our giving with what is coming in and always the final balance shows a negative balance because compared to what we [...]

No matter what life brings you, you can make a choice at how you want to see it. Choose happiness! Make a choice each day; choose to be happy with what comes and what has gone. There are plenty of things to rejoice about. Do not forget the little things: Your smiling colleague. The little [...]