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WEDNESDAY WISDOM AND WIT
Could geniality and longevity be natural bedfellows? While professional speakers might have a signature keynote that they deliver, it still requires a lot of time before the event to prepare and customise to the specific audience. Before I started to get known as a...
Understatement to command attention
WEDNESDAY WISDOM If you have ever been hit by a Mack truck you will get what I am about to say! Leonard Cohen went on a 5 year retreat to become a Monk, and on his return discovered all his millions had gone. He says of that time "Money has a certain way of...
Types of Humour and Application in life
Tom Hopkins, US speaker and perhaps the worlds best sales trainer says you can learn to laugh even if you have a Ph D in pessimism! What needs to happen is the replacement of the strong silent type for a few sense of humour types! Understanding the different forms...
The health in humour!!
Laughter is a great medicine. Like intense exercise, laughter increases brain levels of serotonin and endorphins that can calm and relax the mind. Every year there is more evidence that your thoughts, moods, emotions and belief systems have a fundamental impact on the...
Invitation to announce yourselves to each other !!
Invitation to announce yourselves to each other !! 20 years ago In New Zealand I presented at their first "Be the Change" conference. Today as I reflect, I see what was put in place that day paved the way for us to be experiencing our current reality with a level of...
March 21st, 2020
Once upon a time earlier this week I was being interviewed....or about to be interviewed by Mary Brotherton, Editor of bUneke Magazine in the USA. A fairly new offering they have is a series on Blog Talk Radio and they booked me in to do a show on humour! We tried...
Wednesdays Wisdom
I was talking today to the producers of this TV Show in NZ PHUNK NATION. I was contracted some time back to mentor members of the cast as they toured New Zealand and worked on their addictions. My contribution was teaching them positive psychology principles and...
Mike Hutcheson on Business at the speed of Coffee
If you want to change someones life there are 2 things that will do it. Find a mentor and be a mentor. Do both together and you are up and running! Choose a leader who epitomises where you want to be and find the courage to ask for their support! Mike Hutcheson...
“Me Highs” for the times when you feel a tad deflated
Once upon a not so joyful time I did a program with a man who called himself a Maverick. His name was Bill Potter, and his book was called "Mind your own damned business", and half of it was written upside down!!! He says "The greatest hindrance to creativity and...
How do you know when you are a legend?
For me the notion began back in the year 2000. Around about the 11th of June. I had become Junior VP of The National Speakers Association of NZ, ( joyous moment ) !and the current President commended me on a piece of written communication I had done. Like she wrote...
I am the message
CLAIMING THE SPACE AS A VISIONARY ARTIST Those of you who know me well will be aware that "Doubting Thomas" has been my alter ego. For quite some time! He was my clown persona when I travelled with Patch Adams, and will feature in a childrens book series and...
Over 300,000 views on 101010 Pill or Perception
In 2010 I was invited to be a guest on this documentary produced and directed by Theresa Grainger. 8 years on and the content is equally as valuable for anybody wanting to manage the stressors in their life and examine other ways to achieve wellbeing....
April 05th, 2018
By Bruce Daisley 4 April 2018Could laughing be a way to build a stronger, more creative team culture in the workplace? Since the global economic downturn in 2008, many of us may feel that laughing in the office might send a signal that we don’t have enough to do....
What the best science says about depression today !
For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory that depression happens due to an imbalance happening outside of your cranium....
International Day of Happiness – 20 March
SHARE HAPPINESS AND BE PART OF SOMETHING AMAZING Take part in the International Day of Happiness 2018. This year's theme is Share Happiness - focusing on the importance of relationships, kindness and helping each other. DOWNLOAD PDF FILE NOW
Could your story be an essential driver of change ?
Without even knowing you in this moment I am going to say "Yes" to the above question! I have the temerity to do that because I have had occasion now to reflect on my own stories and thousands of "others stories" and see the impact stories make on the listener ! Being...
Overcoming Flirtophobia
I flirt therefore I sell....or I flirt therefore I date? Descartes was not thinking about Valentines Day when he said “ I think therefore I am” . Pat Armitstead , the worlds first Joyologist, holds the notion that " I flirt therefore I sell", and says if that is...
Conscious Leadership – Article by Jen Ledderer
As a conscious leader, your job isn't to run around trying to save the world. n a world where motivating others is just one inspirational Instagram meme away, it can be easy to skirt the surface of what it really takes to embody true leadership, or conscious...
Organisational Trust – Neuroscience or Oxymoron?
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Like Dara Feldman I am a recovering people pleaser!
Dara Feldman is a recovering people pleaser and is the perfect person to extol the values of The Virtues!! The prompt for this interview was to explore a graceful way of looking at "different ability" and the notion of being "handi-capable" rather than handicapped!...