January seems to be a very popular time for new promises, plans, and resolutions. With the new beginning of the year, many people are prompted to make it a personal new beginning as well. However, even though making resolutions is still a very popular practice among us, many have begun to think of it as just another broken promise or failing ideal, and the statistics back up this claim with an estimated less than 10% of all resolutions ever being realized!  I must admit that this grim forecast of realized resolutions and my own experiences have caused me to fall out of love with this once very-important-to-me, annual ritual. Perhaps you can relate. Someone recently asked me if I had set my resolutions yet for 2010. This question was fo...

After a profound training With Clinton Swaine I have decided to own a few truths. He teaches many things. Perhaps the most important was the following. I wrote several messages afterwards. Here is one of them....   I hope that this e-mail finds you well, with life smiling upon you   After 11 days of training with Clinton I have left feeling energised and focussed. In one word it was enlightening   Our final exercise was to hold the hands and look into the eyes of each person there and say "The gift you are to me is....." This proved a very powerful and deeply moving experience   It made me own the fact that others see me very differently to how I saw myself. I have far more to offer than I once thought   The gift you are to me is your he...