“La La La and Smiling”

The other day I was preparing for the “Pulling the Stress Plug” workshop as a free “Thank you!” Training Demo for one of our long-term clients. Of the various stress mastery techniques and mindsets that we teach in this workshop, one of them involves a neuroscience bio-feedback technique called Quick Coherence as developed by HeartMath. [...]

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EQnomic effect of Performance Management

Performance management is one topic on which we provide training at PeopleSmarts.  Over the course of the past several weeks we have been internally discussing this topic and the launch of a software application to support and provide additional resources in conjunction with our trainings.  While performance management is a comprehensive process, one piece of [...]

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Mindfulness, Stress and “The Peace of Wild Things”

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my childrens lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron [...]

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Task: Learn Happiness. Progress: Done.

When I was 16 I made a decision: I wanted to be happy. So at 16 I began my conscious study of happiness. I was going through the existential angst of adolescence (who hasn’t?). My then girlfriend and I would argue, among other things, about the nature of happiness. Neither of us were very happy. [...]

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Get “Jobbed”: A Lesson in Best-Practice

A couple weeks ago I posted this on Facebook: Jonathan is wondering if Holland, or anyone else, is drooling over the sweet new iPhone? You know I am! A disgruntled friend of mine countered, But does it run on more than one app? Does it cut and paste? Does it forward texts? [actually, yes and [...]

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