http://www.senia.com Ideas on Happiness, Positive Psychology, Coaching, Success, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business, Stories, Intuition, and the Brain. Sun, 11 May 2008 21:46:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If I told you I could teach you two sets of skills - one anticipating and the other defensive - which would you choose first? Which would you be more excited about learning? I'll give you concrete examples. I was teaching some great MBA students this past week, and ... http://www.senia.com/2008/04/25/question-friday-anticipating-or-defensive/ I had so much fun giving a talk at the Kiwanis Club recently. What a fun group of people. My talk was right after their lunch, and they were laughing and joking all throughout their lunch. And then they had the formal part of their meeting, including a new ... http://www.senia.com/2008/04/24/talk-at-kiwanis-club/ So the answer to yesterday's question: "Mike did things - you tell me, how did Mike do things?" Mike did things ... as an example to his kids. I cannot believe how powerful this concept is. I cannot believe it. Doing something as an example to yourself and to others. Now, I know what you ... http://www.senia.com/2008/04/23/the-biggest-lesson-i%e2%80%99ve-learned-as-a-career-coach-part-2-of-2/ There is one lesson that stands out far and away ahead of every other that I have learned as a coach. I'll show you how my good friend Mike and my good friend Joe live through this lesson. Mike used to get up every morning at 5:45am to make it ... http://www.senia.com/2008/04/22/the-biggest-lesson-ive-learned-as-a-career-coach-part-1-of-2/ Hello great people, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008! Last year was ... finishing things. This year is ... cohesion. Last year, 2007, my goal was finishing things, and in the spirit of David Seah's GHD resolutions tracking, here's a countdown of whether I did or did not finish things in three domains - editing, teaching, ... http://www.senia.com/2008/01/28/happy-new-year-2008/ Remember when we talked about how you do anything is how you do everything? Today's quote is: "Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." ~ Swami Sivananda Saraswati Swami Sivananda left a medical practice to become a monk. He had ... http://www.senia.com/2007/11/22/your-smallest-acts/ Csikszentmihalyi: “When a person’s psychic energy coalesces into a life theme, consciousness achieves harmony.” What is your psychic energy? How does your psychic energy coalesce into a life theme? Could you be detailed about how it is coalescing? http://www.senia.com/2007/11/16/psychic-energy-and-life-themes/ Like Judi says here: "Some people think planning and flexibility are two sides of a coin. I disagree. I think in many respects planning can enhance our flexibility. I've always experienced this in Software Development. ... I recently experienced it in my personal life. We go to the Indy 500 every year ... http://www.senia.com/2007/11/15/more-on-steady/ I routinely think: What is the next big win?!?! Where can we do new, interesting things?!?! I think about this for my career coaching clients - "Where can they have the most impact? Where can they move to what they most want?" I think about this for myself - "What's the most ... http://www.senia.com/2007/11/14/life-is-about-the-slow-and-steady-really/ There's a group I used to visit a lot that's stopped having discussions recently (the Happiness Group), and in that group, there were a lot of discussions of what Happiness is. FYI, here's an overview of the group's best hits (Favorite Posts 1 and Favorite Posts 2) I know there's ... http://www.senia.com/2007/11/09/happiness-is/