Book Review: Discipline Without Distress

May 24 2011

Once again, I have chosen to review a local Calgary author I met at the Calgary chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. Her name is Judy Arnall and her book is entitled, “Discipline Without Distress” (3rd Edition, 2010) and can best be described as an emotionally intelligent parenting book. The subtitle is “135 [...]

Website(s) of the Month

This month we have website(s) of the month for you. I couldn’t decide on a couple of different quotation sites for quotes about emotions and emotional things. I did find it interesting that John Lennon’s famous, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” from his song, “Beautiful Boy” was attributed [...]

EITC EQ Toolshare of the Month

Apr 25 2011
albert ellis

The EQ tool for April that I would like to share with you is a wonderful tool for looking at the self-limiting beliefs we hold onto. Looking at beliefs is a critical part of emotional intelligence and fits with the EQ competency of emotional self-awareness. It’s called the 12 Irrational Beliefs created by Albert Ellis, [...]

Give Me A Break: the art of making time work for you – Culver

Apr 19 2011
Give me a break

I’m so excited by the books I’ve been given to review recently by really wonderful authors that I either know or have met. I’ve got quite the pile that I eagerly look forward to reading. Which one am I going to talk about this month? I think I have to mention my friend and colleague, [...]

EITC Website of the Month: We Feel Fine

Apr 18 2011
We Feel Fine.org

You are going to love theEITC website of the month for April. I heard Jonathon Harris on ted.com and was extremely  impressed with him and his project, “We Feel Fine.” When you go to wefeelfine.org, you will see bunch of coloured dots moving around the screen. Each dot represents a human emotion of someone who [...]

Cool Inspirational Poster of Marianne Williamson Quote

Mar 09 2011
Girl laughs (cover of poster)

The EQ tool of the month is a poster you can print off and put on your bulletin board or frame it and hang it over your desk or in your work station. It’s a quotation that you may well recognize and that inspired me so much I asked my brilliant graphic design team from [...]

Website of the Month for March

I might have messed up the url for last month’s website of the month and so here it is again http://www.theexecutivecoachingforum.com/ This month’s pick is http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/emotions.htm which is actually a fraction of the huge site by an interesting guy named Dave Straker who reads and writes voraciously sharing everything on his website. Check it out, [...]

Emotional Ponderings: “Renewal”

March is the month of Spring and in Vancouver (the home I left yesterday morning) the rhubarb is up in our backyard and the trees are loaded with buds that are going to burst forth at any moment – can’t wait for those magnolia blossoms. This morning on CBC radio, in Calgary, brrrr, where there [...]

February EQ Tool Share of the Month

Feb 06 2011

The EQ tool of the month is theEITC Stages of Change document which reviews the Stages of Change Model created by James Prochaska and his colleagues in the book, “Changing for Good.” I first learned about the model from a handout that my wife, Jill, picked up at BC Women’s Hospital where she works. I [...]

February Book Review

This month’s book is “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative” by Ken Robinson. My brilliant daughter, Becky, and her brilliant partner, Sherwin got me this book for Christmas and I’m just loving it. If you take a look at Ken Robinson’s TED talks, you will become an instant fan. He’s very funny and [...]