Albert Einstein’s words below have inspired me for this week’s Monday Mantra, which is about mastering positive habits.“Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”Creating and mastering positive habits is one of the keys to success. This begs the question of why…

Committing to a course of action, or anything for that matter is a huge step in the right direction. But it’s not enough. To succeed one has to set priorities and know what you stand for. If things are high priority we give them our attention.If they are not, they…

A few years ago I was seriously overworked and overcommitted in all areas of my life. Eventually, and thankfully just in time, when moodiness, anxiety, stress and being constantly tired started affecting my family, I knew intuitively it was time to reassess my priorities. Why did I continuously take on…

Emotional Intelligence (known as EQ or EI) is the ability to recognize one’s own and other people’s emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.In his book, Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ, Daniel Goleman…

A few weeks ago I was whingeing about why I hadn’t completed something I had undertaken to do. My language and rhetoric went something like this: “I was going to go for a run today but it was too wet and cold to go out”. What I do recall however,…

This past weekend we were invited to our second Thanksgiving dinner by the same lovely hosts as last year. Two years in a row is definitely the start of a tradition and I am looking forward to next year already!No, I’m not being presumptuous. I have apparently fulfilled the requirements…