chocolate

Chocolate!

There is a reason there is a whole supermarket aisle dedicated to chocolate. It because we all have different tastes.  And if we didn’t have different tastes 10 years ago, the chocolate industry has convinced us that we do!  Chocolate is bought for a variety of reasons:  just because it was looking at me; because…

Monet's water lilies

Work Ethic

“Anyone who say he has finished a canvas is terribly arrogant” (Claude Monet) I went to the Monet exhibition yesterday and immersed myself in this artist’s life. Monet had an incredible work ethic and dedication to his craft. Monet is perhaps most famous for his waterlilies paintings, captured in his garden at different times of…

a picture tells a thousand words

Fake it til you make it

They say a picture is worth a thousand words; now picture yourself, walking into networking meeting or a sales meeting with a retailer.  As you are walking into the room or around the room how do you look? What message do you communicate? What are your eyes, hands and shoulders saying? What information can people…

using garlic to get rid of energy vampires

Energy Vampires

Life and business are busy enough without the distractions of people and things who suck you dry and give you little in return – these are your energy vampires. You know the people – the ones who, when you answer their calls, you instantly regret it.  You know the things – they suck us in…