Men and women are different (like you needed me to tell you). But across all genders, and throughout all primitive or civilized cultures, one thing remains same--the meaning of emotion. We all have them, though many of us ignore them. High acheivers, so adept at focusing keen attention, have often dispensed with them. Today, we can't ignore them--they contribute up to 96% to our success--and they're their back in style. These leaky, renegade impulses that seem so out of control are a resource we can tap into to make right decisions, raise capital, make sale, get girl (or guy) and feel fulfilled. Good gut can be yours...all you need is to pay attention to that queasy feeling in your stomach, tension in your neck, fatigue from your job. Listen. Paying attention to what (and who) energizes you and what (and who) discourages you means your emotional sentinels are attuned to information your well-conditioned mind is missing.

Love & Addictive Society

Americans consume 5 billion tranquilizers and 16,000 tons of aspirin each year. Thirty-one percent of population is chronically depressed and 79% want to quit their jobs and live off land. Why? Because there's not enough love and too many substitutes for it. We want connection. We want to be valued and validated. And when we don't get it we buy things, eat things, wear things, do and use things to give us what we really want--love. Love is nothing more than giving to another, and allowing them to be seen, heard and appreciated for who they are. Can't we make a little space in ourselves for others--and their differences-- to enter?

A Balanced Heart...Outer space or Inner space?

Do you know what most productive day of year is for typical business owner or manager?

Mondays? Maybe for some. Pay day? No. Labor Day? Just kidding…

It’s day before you take vacation. This little known fact has actually been researched and documented. Why is this so?

I just returned from my family’s vacation week at beach. I had my fill of fast food, sun tan lotion, and long walks on beach. Several days before our departure, I honestly never thought I would finish work that had stacked up on my desk. Proposals to complete. Projects to finish. Phone calls to make. Post-it reminders all over my desk threatening to take my entire workspace hostage.

Than it happened. All week I had made considerable progress on my work but I was certain that I would end up stuffing my briefcase with leftover work and dragging it to beach for it’s completion. When I woke up day before our departure, I was like a man possessed. I started off taking an inventory of every task I needed to finish by end of day. Next, I wrote an action plan for day listing each task and estimating time needed for completion. I than prioritized list based on each task’s relative importance. I also grouped activities by type of technology necessary for completion i.e. telephone, computer, automobile. There was not a second to waste.

I even found myself tackling several tasks I had procrastinated on for weeks. It just seemed to make sense to tie up all loose ends. I also made several new and follow-up client contacts that I had been too easily putting off for way too long. Each of calls were very productive. Why had I been putting off these inquiries?

I actually finished all of my tasks by mid-afternoon. I had time to spare. Time to pack and begin lugging out all of beach paraphernalia. These chairs and buckets seem to multiply like jackrabbits each year.