Category Archives: Mindstyle

Skills They Don’t Teach on an MBA – PROgress Business Clubs

Programme 2012 PROgress Business Club Hi all, I am so delighted to be part of the PROgress Business Club programme this year.  I’ve attached the programme and hope you agree that it’s a great offer to participants.  The first meeting was last week and it was a fantastic and inspiring session. Although priority is obviously…

The Inside Out Message 14 March 2012

Event: Inside Out Message, Speaking and Presentation Skills Workshop When: Wednesday, 14 March 2012 – 10:00am to 6:00pm Where: Ethnic Minority Council offices, 18 Stewart Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV2 4JW Facilitator: Michael-Don Smith Fee: £67.00 (Early Bird £47) . . . . . . ” YOU Are Going To Dramatically Change the way you Communicate in…

MAX Coaching on Falling in Love with your Product

Mindstyle Peak Performance Coaching with Chris Green. Click on the Speaker Icon below to listen in as Don excites the relationship between Chris and his new product ‘Linked in Unleashed’ Loving Your Product

Useful Beliefs

These beliefs are not necessarily true They are Very Useful for understanding and influencing behaviour I believe we must know our purpose, understand our natural drives and recognise our  human needs. 3 Keys to Purpose A powerful Purpose facilitates Living in Flow (Positive Psychology) Key #1 is Optimism Because Faith in the Future dramatically determines…

Never heard of a Sestina before?

Sestina by MDS Autumn leaves limbless fall down. Once green with life connected sure Certain that certain things don’t change. And reality is life and growth and love, A little boy skips and kicks dead leaves with joy And laughs as mommy prays he won’t trip up. She recalls he gave her up Lover’s promises…

The Woodcarver

Khing, the master carver, made a bell stand Of precious wood. When it was finished, All who saw it were astounded. They said it must be The work of spirits. The Prince of Lu said to the master carver: “What is your secret?” Khing replied: “I am only a workman: I have no secret. There…

‘Natural Born Leader’ ?

“I think all leadership starts with self leadership”, so in that respect we are all natural born leaders. In most areas hard categories can be confusing and rarely as useful as those who like to put people in boxes like to suggest. Truly great/inspirational leaders rarely fit any particular model of “the leader” and often…

There is no PRIZE

If you don’t find your true passion, someone else’s passion will find you!!! Call of Duty is someone else’s Passion and they’ve got you paying time and money to play their game and fulfil there dream. Time is your biggest asset, how are you investing it, in your dream in your studies or in someone…

Choose your reality

If everything changes… what then of truth?

The Relationship Ratio

Here’s a quote from my second unfinished book ‘Reduced NLP’ from the chapter entitled ‘People work like this’ It’s a piece on the Relationship Ratio… The Relationship Ratio The Relationship Ratio is the ratio between supporting and motivating in a relationship. In strong human relationships the ratio of support to motivation will be greater than…