11/04/2014
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Choose your images carefully when bringing new items into your home.
Common Shapes for Decorating
When supporting an area within the Bagua, shapes are often the easiest to manipulate. The three common shapes:
SQUARES: If the life area you choose to enhance needs solid grounding, then squares would be the shape. You can choose one item, or you could arrange several items into a square shape. In addition, you can arrange several ’square-type’ pictures into one…
11/04/2014 Niagara Falls in October
Niagara Falls in October:photo by Pat French
The mood of the day and the sky can transform these gems minute by minute. Nice to have a rainbow come out one afternoon! I don’t think anyone can take a bad picture of Niagara Falls! Timeless!
The mighty Niagara Falls from a picture on my phone!…
“I’m unable to attend the meeting as I’m busy in the Design Studio!”
Practical Steps to Success #21:
Present Clear Messages; avoid miscommunications and save time!
There’s a growing concern about using texts as a business platform.
I dislike the plethora of group texts with a one-liner comment; which leads to many MORE texts. When I need to address a specific matter, being specific will avoid more questions and therefore, interruption. This type of correspondence can lead to irritation, distractions, …
Practical Steps to Success # 20:
Prevent Conflicts while building your team
Verbal skills are so important when building a team. Miscommunication can present unclear objectives, trigger stress and foster a lack of respect for team players.
When I discuss personality dynamics in a workshop or talk, I relate behaviour to one of the five earth’s elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, water. These elements offer a unique insight on how people and things react to one another. Just as fire…
Practical Steps to Success #16: The Magical Game of ‘If’
If I had a choice….
If I had a chance…
If I had the notion to…
If I met the right partner and had the right job, I could….
If I stretched my mind just a bit further, I wonder what I could accomplish...
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If I was an actor/actress, I could move from the plane of reality and jump into another life; written and orchestrated by me.
I would…
Kathryn at the Body, Soul and Spirit Show in Vancouver.
Practical Steps to Success #15: Expect the Unexpected
We all have goals. We all have expectations. No matter how much we want to ‘help people’, we still have to look at the bottom line.
My friend Sonia quotes, “You can’t pay the bills with a chicken anymore.”
I took a leap-of-faith last weekend to participate in the Body, Soul and Spirit Expo in Vancouver. The booth was $800.plus taxes -and…
A new perspective: The Power of Money, by Sonia Haynes, discusses your relationship with money.
Practical Steps to Success #13: Knowledge is Power
We are born to grow and change, as nothing stays exactly the same. In growing up, we have different phases in life.
First we grow physically. Then we grow intellectually in our learning years. When we get out of school and settled into our careers, we proceed to grow our bank accounts. And, it shouldn’t end there.…
Sunshine ahead!
Practical Steps to Success #12: Support your Luck
Are some people really luckier than others? Are there some people that ‘always’ get what they want out of life? What makes them so different, and so special, than the rest of us?
In feng shui, there is a component of Buddhism; theory about ‘being lucky’ or ‘gathering good luck’. There are several factors to this theory:
~ Fate and Destiny: This is the raw, pre-destined facts of the circumstances…
Practical Steps to Success #9; Get Ready to Make More Money!
Attitude: Pick a good one! A good attitude is the first thing to making money. Be courteous, respectful and believe in what you do. Having a positive, but flexible attitude can help you manoeuvre through life’s trials.
Clean up: Seriously. Clean the big stuff; your closets, windows and doorways. Then clean the little stuff; your inbox, desk drawers, your car, and above all –your purse and wallet.
Replace: Any…
Practical Steps to Success #7: Visit Your Nucleus, and Get Results
Do you ever find yourself making a decision too quickly? Being pressured to answer a question, sign a contract or delegate tasks all need 100% of your attention. (Particularly when you estimate how many people’s lives could be affected by this one decision.)
In this fast paced world, do we have the luxury of asking for an extra day to think about it? Can you ask for more information…
This condo had been on the market for 6 weeks with one price reduction… excited to make it have more flow and have a little more overall appeal… did a fantastic job of rearranging furniture and re-hanging art. The home flows so much better now and looks way more spacious… this staging will attract the right buyer!
