Whether you've made a gratitude list before or not... I'll give you 4 to 1 odds that you don't know what someone is 4 times more likely to do when they make a list of what they're grateful for.

The answer is <more>

If you're not careful your self talk can be the equivalent of taking a cold shower. It happened to me a few days ago and fortunately I caught myself... all I had to do was <more>

Over the last 29 years I’ve seen a lot of meetings, both good ones and bad ones. Some I’ve chaired, some I’ve sat through, some I wished I was golfing, some were all over the place, and some were… all of the above.

While there isn’t a common element to what worked or what didn’t work, there’s a technique I started a few years back <more>

In Canada we're celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend. What better way to kick it off than by finding out what folks are grateful for about <more>

How grateful is my hometown of Halifax? To find out we did a simple social experiment. We <<read more>>

Habits are among the best predictors of your success. One such success habit is making a list of what you are grateful for… it’s the quintessential gratitude habit.

I started this habit about 10 years ago and <<read more>>

We took to the streets of my home town and asked people one simple question. It confirmed what we suspected... watch and see how <<<read more>>

I’ve had businesses who were just interested in the benefits of having a grateful minded workforce (and there are many), the science behind gratitude, the psychology of how it works, the various frameworks for understanding how it operates within individuals and within social settings and the various techniques you can use to develop a grateful frame of mind. And they were interested in teaching their people all this so they could have a more positive, engaged, productive culture.

At first thought it sounds good. But one important ingredient is missing. <read more>

l love the story in this video. It's hard to believe but these type of customer interactions happen all the time. <read more>

Plain and simple... gratitude enables you to draw the positive from the benefits in life. Most people are pleasantly surprised by how gratitude shines light on many of the invisible benefits of life we so often take for granted.

Even challenges can be seen as beneficial, although not always immediately. The benefits of a challenge may <read more>

We just finished our spring cleaning and what I thought was an optical illusion, had me off level. Fortunately, it didn't fool my wife. Watch the <read more>

Whether it was adrenaline, cortisol or both, I'm not sure... but whatever it was, it knocked me off level and made me like a dog with a bone. This type of reactive behaviour is typical in <read more>

Ingrateful and ungrateful attitudes are costing North American workplaces somewhere in the order of $600 Billion every year. Gratitude on the other hand drives prosocial behaviours characterized by positivity, helping, inter- <<read more...>>

At the extreme ends of the gratitude scale sit grateful and ingrateful. Somewhere in the middle is a very dangerous place called ungrateful.
Ungrateful habits are costly, eroding the cultures at home and in the office. This is not good... especially for building a positive, engaged <read more>

People are more productive and more fulfilled when they perceive they are appreciated. One study found that employees who were shown appreciation and gratitude by their supervisor were 50% more productive than <read more>

On January 4th I had a health scare.

All is fine now, but as the doctor described my condition, an interesting parallel with gratitude appeared.

I thought it was something that might help you stay level the next time you get busy or stressed <read more>

What if there was a simple fix to achieving your resolution… or being your best… or to more success? 

While things like persistence, commitment and purpose clearly top the list of what you need to be successful; this year I had another thought. While I can't say for certain, but what if the fix to a successful resolution came simply from a transformation in perspective? 

Think for a moment about your growth <read more>

Parrots, pirates and the sea... join me at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic as we take a lesson from the history books to help you achieve your New Year's resolution. 
 
And if you haven't resolved to do something anew, you may want to rethink that after you learn a very simple way to help you succeed. If you want to pretty much guarantee your success, <read more>

A quick psychology lesson… negative emotions narrow the options for human behaviour (i.e. fight or flight) whereas positive emotions widen the array of possibilities available to you and your people. The Broaden and Build Theory asserts that positive emotions were central to human survival and are considered a significant factor for our existence today. This is very important to business because according to Broaden and Build, the effect of positive emotions is cumulative over time resulting in greater wellbeing, better health and stronger social connections, as well being more resilient, more knowledgeable and more effective.

You want more people who are positive? It's simple. Take control and provide... <read more>

Almost 200 years ago, Clement Clarke Moore put pen to paper and today you can recite almost half of his poem by heart. The famous “Twas the Night Before Christmas” describes the familial parallel of the ideal business culture… excited, engaged, hopelessly optimistic and achievement-based. Who wouldn’t want this at work? It’s the antithesis of <read more>