Choosing Friends and Colleagues By Tanis Helliwell “When you put 2 people together you either have more than 2 or less than 2” –Tanis Helliwell Choosing friends and colleagues is one of the most important choices we make in life because who we associate with is who we become. Someone once said that we inherit our family but we…
By Tanis Helliwell Some years ago The International Institute for Chartered Accountants asked me to be the keynote speaker at their annual convention. The topic was Future Trends: The New Renaissance. “Great” I thought, “a chance to bridge the spiritual and traditional worlds.” A few minutes into the presentation I felt that I had not captured the attention of…
Key Goals for Happiness By Tanis Helliwell I have a spiritual tradition to start the New Year that I would like to share with you. Although I do this on January 1, please do not wait until then to start this practice. Start now. For as long as I can remember I have done goal setting for the coming…
Increase Your Energy By Tanis Helliwell Orende—the Cherokee Word for Life Energy Keeping our energy at optimum through dark winter days days is critical. Our energy is not static. It can increase and decrease depending on the season, the people with whom we associate and the environment in which we live and work. In the Cherokee tradition the energy of all…
By Tanis Helliwell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. –Mark Twain Keeping our energy at optimum through the darker days of winter is critical. Our energy is not static. It can increase and decrease depending on the…
How Music Affects Your Brain By Tanis Helliwell I have always been fascinated by how the brain works and lately I’ve read some interesting information that I’d like to share with you about how music affects the brain. Music can directly influence blood pressure, pulse, and the electrical activity of muscles. It may even build and strengthen connections between…
Handling Conflict and Difficult Situations By Tanis Helliwell How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect exactly as they are! –The Buddha There are three approaches we can take to deal with something that we don’t like. We can attempt to change it, accept it, or leave it. We need wisdom to know the best approach for each situation….
Making Your Dreams Come True By Tanis Helliwell January 1 is the most important day of the year for me. That day I set aside to reflect on what I’ve accomplished the previous year and decide what I want to do in the coming year. It’s a day of contemplation and reflection, but it’s more than that. It’s also…
By Tanis Helliwell “Like millions of trees which are all rooted in one and the same earth, so millions of human minds are rooted in one and the same universal being.” –Paul Brunton Organizations as Living Beings I have always thought of organizations as living beings. Seen this way, we and our organization live in a symbiotic relationship and…
By Tanis Helliwell This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare, in Hamlet I, iii, 65 In our North American culture, we have a limited view of what talent, or genius, is and this we must expand, if we…
Attracting and Using Money By Tanis Helliwell Money is a form of energy that has value because of our thoughts about it. It’s very difficult to manifest what we want in the world if we have not learned how to attract and use money. We need to accurately assess how much money we need in order to accomplish our…
Seven Powers to Increase Your Effectiveness By Tanis Helliwell When faced with difficult personal times, or even with feeling that we are powerless to affect positive change in the world, I think it is important for us to remember that we all have power. Examining the ways in which we are powerful increases our self-confidence, our energy, and our…
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