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Join Wendy Woods Monday at 8:15am to laugh away Blue Monday – Flow 93.5

Monday is called Blue Monday as it’s supposed to be the most depressing day of the year.

No more as Wendy leads you in a series of laughter yoga activities on the JJ and Melanie in the morning show. Simply tune in to 93.5FM

And laugh http://flow935.com/onair/shows/

Want to be more effective and productive at work?

Join Wendy Woods on March 5^th for her Emotional Intelligence workshop. In this interactive session participants examine their Emotional Intelligence to identify strengths and challenges and develop strategies for greater results. Personalized action plans are created to support continued success. (The Bar-On EQ-i is to be completed prior to the session.)To get additional information and register visit

http://www.cga-ontario.org/eventReg/eventListing.aspx?src=rss&eventid=PD2012&seminarid=2012-0305#PD20122012-0305

If your workplace needs a boost from low employee engagement and productivity, our solution is the right medicine for your team, your business, and you.

Join Instructor Wendy Woods at the downtown University of Toronto campus, this Friday and Saturday (Nov. 4-5, 2011) for a valuable session to explore why mindfulness is the key to overcoming bottom-line concerns and vital to developing an engaged organization. In addition attendants will explore how mindfulness is being used by major corporations and leaders and examine strategies to introduce mindful practice into today’s challenging environments.

The fee is $278 (HST included). Workshops run on November 4th and November 5th (Friday and Saturday), 9:00am-4:00pm. Workshop Name: [MINDB20] The Mindful Workplace – [Module B20]

Cheers, from Watershed Training Solutions

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. ~Rowan D. Williams, Poet and theologian

Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success. ~Paul J. Meyer, Motivatioanl speaker

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper. ~Bo Bennett, Businessman, author and philanthropist

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. ~Rollo May , American Existential psychologist

Communication works for those who work at it. ~John Powell, British composer

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When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity. ~ Steve Pavlina, Author

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. ~J.C. Penney, Businessman

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. ~David Bly, Politican

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work. ~Steve Pavlina, Author

It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains. ~Danilo Dolci. Italian social activist and Poet

The practice of mindfulness begins in the small, remote cave of your unconscious mind and blossoms with the sunlight of your conscious life, reaching far beyond the people and places you can see. ~
Earon Davis

Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader

Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world. ~Ramana Maharshi, Hindu spiritual master

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benet, American author, poet, and novelist

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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. ~Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. ~Zig Ziglar, American motivational Speaker and Author

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ~Bertie Charles Forbes, Financial journalist and author

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ~ Og Mandino, American Essayist and Psychologist

The secret of success is to find the need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve the problem. ~ Rev. Robert H. Schuller, Pastor, speaker, motivator and author

I recently discovered this poem when I was doing some de-cluttering on the Labor Day weekend.  It reminds me of what is really important in life and enables me to refocus my priorities. It inspires and grounds me; I hope you find it inspiring too.

Success

To laugh often and much; to win the respect

of intelligent persons and the affection of children;

to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal

of false friends; To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;

to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better,

whether by a healthy child, a garden patch

or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed

with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know

even one life has breathed easier because you have lived

… this is to have succeeded.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

He conquers who endures.  ~Persius, Roman poet

Fall seven times, stand up eight.  ~Japanese Proverb

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.  ~André A. Jackson, Business Executive

Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.  ~Author Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet

I found this poem a few years ago and loved it. I thought you would appreciate it as much as I did.  Enjoy!

Death By Laughter

Some people measure their

lives in pulse rates and sit-ups.

Far better to measure yours

in licks of ice creams, well-

told jokes, mad dashes to be

first in water, belly

laughs. And, when you die, it

won’t be an erratic shift

in your heart rate, it will be an

overdose of mirth, fun

poisoning, death by laughter!

~ Anonymous

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. ~Natalie Goldberg, American Author

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ~William James, American Psychologist

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ~
Hans Selye, Endocrinologist

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ~ Author Unknown

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb

Setbacks and stressors are bridges to be crossed to our goals… not barricades to keep us from them. ~Stephen Pierce, Speaker and Author