The Gift of Choice

July 22nd, 2008 admin

I was working with a large corporation for a number of years with business incentives. I wanted to steer them into an expanded program that would be a company contest.

My proposal deviated from the regular program and I met resistance from the human resource director. She told me a story about giving a 22-year-old single man an incentive album and he selected a set of pots and pans. She wondered why he picked that gift, and he told her that he just moved into his first apartment and needed them.

She said, “Sandy, if I tried to select a gift for him, it would never have been pots and pans.” That was a lesson for me as well.

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Emotional Intelligence

April 1st, 2008 admin

I was listening to the radio while driving in my car and heard a program about the book “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman. It reminded me of another book, “Deadly Emotions” by Don Colbert, M.D.

Both books deal with the importance of emotional health and how it affects us. In “Emotional Intelligence,” Daniel Coleman indicates that it may be more important than IQ. People with emotional intelligence know how to be patient, to wait, and how to react to the many emotionally and socially challenging issues that we all face. Attitude is everything! Emotional intelligence (or rather, lack of it) either cause or drive numerous medical problems.

“Deadly Emotions” is written by Don Colbert, M.D. whose basic message is “What we feel emotionally often becomes how we feel physically.” He has come to this conclusion after treating hundreds of patients.

We have mentioned, in our newsletters and blog, how stress is a major contributor of a variety of physical illnesses. Destructive emotions have a toxic effect on the body. As Don Colbert says, “Stress, anger, fear, anxiety and depression-any negative emotion-can be a ticking time bomb.”

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