Professional Development

And the Oscar Goes To …

I’m not a huge Academy Award watcher, but I did tune in Sunday night while I was chit-chatting on social media. I have to say I was delighted with Christopher Plummer winning best supporting actor for his portrayal of a gay widower with terminal cancer.

 

He has always been one of my favorites since he graced the screen as the dashing yet stern Captain Von Trapp, in my favorite movie, The Sound of Music.

 

Amazingly, this was Plummer’s first Oscar at age 82 – the oldest acting winner ever. Plummer noted in his acceptance speech that the award itself is just two years older than him, joking, “Where have you been all my life?” The first Academy Award was given in 1928.
 
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4 Steps to Increase The Power of Your Focus

Living your life without practicing The Power of Focus, is like trying to hit the bull’s eye of a target you can’t see. You can spend hours launching arrows, only to miss the target entirely. You become exhausted and frustrated when your repeated efforts don’t show the results you are trying to achieve. This is what it feels like to operate without The Power of Focus.

 

To get to where you want to be professionally and personally, you must hold clear in your mind what you most want. Your subconscious mind is a powerful, goal-achieving machine, but it can’t lead you to your desired goal, if you don’t provide it with a specific target. If it doesn’t have a clear and specific target, it can’t get you there.  Read More

How to Overcome Adversity

In this e-learning, I’m going to share with you some little strategies that I find, that we all can adapt. Here’s a key thing: there’s nothing in this e-learning series that is “genetically coded.” In other words, it all can be learned. Just because in the past you haven’t handled adversity well, it doesn’t mean that you can’t handle it well going forward. I want to be very clear on that. By the way, if you don’t have that belief, let’s adopt it. There’s always a new way of dealing with things. Let’s get started. Watch the video… Read More