Winds of Change

I recently had the great opportunity to meet up with Jivi Khehra, the face, voice and spirit behind the phenomenon Winds of Change. Her philosophy is simple – embrace change and celebrate the possibilities in life – talk about right up my ally!

She wrote the most incredible blog post about our first encounter where she described me as “the most charismatic, full of energy, and business savvy person I have met” WOW – what a compliment! – read her full post here.

And you can check out the Winds of Change TV Show Here:

Free Lunch!

Hello to all my readers, followers and friends! Thank you as always for your support.

Lunch with me, at the location of your choice, is in store for the first person to comment with the correct answer to the below fill in the blank question. (Advanced apologies to all my out of towners – lunch will have to be somewhere in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver.) Good luck!!

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.

I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.

I am at your command.

Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me,

For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.

I am easily managed, just be firm with me.

Those who are great, I have made great.

Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a machine and the intelligence of a person.

You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.

Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me.

Lead me. Reward me.

And I will then…do it automatically.

I am your servant.

Who am I?

I am a _________________________

You’ll See It When You Believe It

Join eWomenNetwork Vancouver on Tuesday April 13th at The Coast Coal Harbour Hotel (click for details) Here’s a blog post that I wrote after returning from the eWomenNetwork conference last August. Hope to see you on the 13th – Heather

When I nominated myself for the EWomenNetwork 2009 International “Emerging Leader of the Year” award, I was never expecting to win. But when the email came a few months later announcing that I had indeed beat out all the other young, talented women in Vancouver BC and was being flown to Dallas as one of the twelve International finalists, you can imagine, I was stunned, excited and a little scared all at the same time. Since I was a little girl I dreamed of a day like this, where I would be up on stage in front of thousands of people, being honoured for achieving a level of success that set me apart from my peers. And as I stood on that stage and looked out to the crowd of 2500 people, introduced myself and gave thanks to my sponsoring chapter and managing director I experienced one of the happiest and most proud moments of my life. READ MORE

Growing or Dying?

In my many years of study under the incredible Bob Proctor there was always one underlying lesson that governed all others. There are only two directions that any living organism can venture: towards growth or towards death. Every once and a while it’s important to take a step back in order to clearly identify what people and activities are facilitating my growth and subsequently what people and activities are facilitating my death.  Now, of course, we’re all going to die at some point, that we all know is the inevitable, but, the journey can be one of growth and cultivation or it can be one of drought.

If you think of your body, mind and spirit as a garden that you have been put in charge of; are you flourishing, growing and blooming or are you wilting, thirsty and dying?  As human beings we have a responsibility to ourselves to plant, nourish and harvest the seeds that we sew.

Over the course of the next week, take an inventory of your life.  What activities are you participating in? What company are you keeping?  What books are your reading?  What television are you watching?  What food are you eating?  What music are you listening to?

Are you planting and caring for seeds of growth, development and life?  Or, are you planting seeds of drought and famine?

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

- Maria Robinson

New Podcast with Out-Smarts

Business is changing and the old competitive model is being replaced by a new collaborative one. Businesses everywhere are being tasked with finding ways to mitigate and cut costs while remaining cutting edge in business. A great way to reach these goals is through collaboration and synergy. Listen to the podcast (link below) where I discuss the keys to collaborative success with Mhairi Petrovic of Out-Smarts.

Listen here:

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Enjoy the day!

Heather

See Only Love

I recently travelled from Vancouver to Kamloops to join 2000 people as we experienced an afternoon with Deepak Chopra.  His two hour lecture was eye opening and incredibly mind stretching.  It took me about 48 hours just to digest what I had heard.  A theme that ran through his lecture was the collective consciousness of all humanity.  When he mentioned that it takes about two weeks for the air breathed by a Calcutta taxi cab driver to reach the west coast of North America – that was a shock.  I don’t know why, intellectually we know that we all share the same air, but, when you actually marinate on that concept for a moment – it’s pretty powerful.

At the conclusion of his lecture Deepak shared a new undertaking as he is attempting to have 100 million people in the world take a vow of non-violence.  He prefaces this attempt by quoting Gandi’s famous line “Be the change that you want to see in the world”.  It’s true, if you or I want there to be real change then we must take responsibility and be the change in our own lives. 

I thought about this vow for days afterwards as there is so much violence in the world.  The obvious violence, the wars, the street gangs, shootings, bombings etc. there is no question that this must change.  What really concerns me, however, is the violence that is not so obvious; the kind we can’t see. Specifically, I think about the self-violence that goes on.  In my coaching practice especially I see and hear the dialogue that clients have with themselves inside their own head.  The tape that plays about how they aren’t good enough, or they need to change in order to be better, thinner, make more money, read more, etc. –  is this not just as violent?  

I think the best place to start with a vow of non-violence is with yourself.  If you can learn to love yourself unconditionally – I think you will be changing the energy of this planet tremendously.

See Only Love

“Look past the seeming errors, mistakes, and misunderstandings, and see only the love within each person (including yourself).  Your resolute focus upon the love that underlies every situation brings about healing in undreamed-of ways”  - Doreen Virtue, PH.D