The Daily Disturbance

If you find it easy to bear, then perhaps it isn't betrayal. Betrayal is normally “too much to bear!” If it doesn’t hit you at your core, then maybe is just a miscommunication cause of lousy signal! But seriously, there are times a particular betrayal feels just too much to bear. And if you’re in this situation now, my heart goes out to you. Let’s go D.E.E.P. as to how to respond when betrayal jus...

A.C.C.E.P.T. it. It’s a normal part of life. Daniel Goleman once said, "When we are aware of our emotions, we are better able to manage them.” Here are 6 ways to overcome betrayal and find yourself in an even better place after. "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde

Ok, the fact you didn't switch means this is interesting or perhaps even potentially helpful to you. It is for me, as every episode is a combination of my own experience, learnings from consultancy partners and clients through the decades and real-time research. The Daily Disturbance is my own experience as I labor and learn through every episode.  And today, I don't only realize how I have -...

Really? Remember, this podcast is to "disturb," more than anything else. And being tough - not just kind - is the kind of engagement we will need to be consistent with this podcast's promise. Ever heard of tough love? But precisely because there are many who find it too dampening, discouraging or even to address “betrayal,” not a few are unable to address it when it comes. So, shall we spend a cou...

You need to go for a W.I.N! And while at it, look for people who B.U.R.S.T. with freshness from within! “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

Then you need a way to get back your L.I.F.E! 4 ways to rise again. Now, get on with it! "Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals." - Roy T. Bennett

“Unbelievable sights, Indescribable feeling, soaring, tumbling, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky.” Now THAT is one fresh description of a situation! Everyone loses freshness at times and we all need a B.O.O.S.T. when that happens. Truth to tell, I get mine daily, sometimes, hour by hour!

"The colors are gone. The light is gone. And what remains is the grey.” - Neil Gaiman, American Gods. When things go F.L.A.T. you know - without a doubt - the freshness is gone.

Because its one reason why you’re listening to this podcast, and why many others have stay tuned the past years: the “freshness” of the topics, or at least in the way we have tackled it. Otherwise, why spend time in something that is stale, outdated and dry? (If not dead!). Here’s the K.E.Y. to why Freshness is even worth talking about.

Yes, you and I can, and we were meant to have, precisely that: a love like no other, for others to drink from, draw from, and hopefully reciprocate. A love like no others from us to others; hopefully, if not immediately but eventually, to us and for us, too! Four ways to truly have a love like no other that will F.L.O.W. to everyone else!

Well, 4 ways to Kill Love and make sure its D.E.A.D. and buried… And 4 ways to make it R.I.S.E. again!

8 ways to grow your love (Growing love 101).  "When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho

Me! And yes, you, too! By again, the wrong choices we can make daily. I think we’ve watched enough movies, read enough books and studied enough of history to see how love and friendships and relationships withstood challenging situations and even grew in spite of when all odds were against those involved. But we also know how countless stories - perhaps some our own - of love “fading away” if not...

Can feelings develop? Can commitments strengthen? Can relationship get better over time? If you said “Yes” to even just one of those questions, then Yes, love can - and was meant to - grow. Here are for 4 reasons why you can be S.U.R.E. love from and to you can grow. 

How can I finally get over this distraction? Or perhaps go through? Or leverage on it and make it work for me and you? A distraction is not a distraction in itself. It’s something that comes up when you least expect it, and depending on your perspective, Can be good, bad or ugly, and you’d be correct!  Distraction, discernment, decision, direction. How will that Pan out for you today?

You are not alone! Consider yourself even blessed that you recognize it? That you have the courage to ask for a way out, or a way back. And I will do my best to help you out - without distractions - in the next 5 minutes! 6 Ways to RETURN to the right or better direction.

So, knowing Why and Where (my podcast content the past days), HOW do I now deal with distractions? 4 ways to stay focused, ward off distractions, and rule.  "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

5 Sources of distractions or W.H.E.R.E. your distractions come from. Which is true for you, or are all of them your realities? Ever be so mindful. “Need does not constitute call.” - Jim White

I mean seriously, me? Distracted? No way, I can’t accept that. Now, where did you get that idea? What is a distraction? Anything that you allow to get in the way from giving the appropriate attention to what you consider a priority. Here are 4 reasons why we get distracted. Which can you relate to?  “Say ‘no’ to distraction so you can say ‘yes’ to your destiny.” ― Thema Davis

Let’s look at actual situations I aim to practice being “fully present,” at home and in the workplace “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” ― Eckhart To...

Almost always it starts with the temptation not to be! From the moment I wake up in the morning, the call to think of things or something that separates me from the real world to isolate me into a more comfortable, less stressful but sadly, unreal world is a not-so-infrequent experience. Ibig sabihin, madalas! The pull not to be present in the here and now, and instead to escape somewhere else, of...

Here are 5 ways to practically stay present on a day-to-day basis. The key is BEING not Doing, dear Human Being : ) "Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be." - Jack Welch

Why? Because being absent sucks. And being ghosted sucks even more. R.E.A.L. Being present makes you REAL. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. Prov 4: 25 “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie Ten Boom

Well, in the simplest of terms, it’s being absent somewhere else! Here are 4 examples of what “being fully present.” How able and willing have you been in practicing them?

“Starting strong is great, finishing strong is epic.” - Robin Sharma People ask me when I will retire, I seriously think about my response and I say “I’m just getting started!” God’s mercies - and provisions - are new EVERY MORNING! But when all is said and done, let’s make sure we E.N.D. well