Lisa Rickwood

7 Olympian Traits to Supercharge Your Life and Business

When the Vancouver 2010 Olympics were on, I had the fortune to get tickets to an event. I went and saw a hockey game - Latvia vs. Slovakia. It was a great game although Latvia was overmatched with Slovakia. Still, it was exciting to watch these athletes i... Read >

The Drama of Assumptions

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once and a while, or the light won't come in." Alan Alda Actor, Writer and Director It's one of the most dangerous things you can do in rela... Read >

10 Ways to Combat Stress and Increase Your Energy

It's Thursday afternoon and it hits like a monsoon - a wave of extreme fatigue, a headache and the sudden urge to lie down and hibernate. You're exhausted! After a week of pulling ‘all-nighters' for a nightmare of a client, you're burnt out. It seems li... Read >

Michael Jackson’s Comeback – Why You Can’t Wait to Show Your Gifts

Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson left a huge legacy in the world. He was a father, entertainer, genius, abused child, wounded man, humanitarian…He was a man with many sides - more than two and a man on mission to re-enter the world of entertainment... Read >

Living Large When Your Pocketbook Isn't

Tumbling stocks and a world economic crisis - not exactly the words a person wants to hear. These words don't exactly drum up feelings of living large - on the contrary they often spark the panicked ‘lack' feelings deep inside many of us. So what's a... Read >

5 Secrets to Control Information Overload Before it Controls You

by Lisa Rickwood, BFA, CTACCYou sit at your desk, primed for another day of work when it hits you - overwhelm, lack of focus and frustration. There it is: your inbox has 125 emails and it is only 9 a.m. What's a sane person to do?Some of us might dream of... Read >

Why Play Isn't Just For Children

"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold." -Joseph Chilton Pearce "It's better to play than do nothing," Confucious Do you remember what it's like to play with abandon like a 9 year-old child? I ask you this questio... Read >

Why You Should Ignore Your Cell Phone and Laptop: Six Keys to a Great Vacation

It's a gorgeous, warm day and you're loading your black SUV with a beach blanket, cooler, sunscreen, a sun umbrella, your family and …your cell phone and laptop. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, you've worked hard all year and look forward to... Read >

The Best Time to Do Anything: What You Need To Know to Operate at Your Best

It's 3:00 in the afternoon and you've still got two hours of work to go...and you crave a nap. Your blood sugar is low, your eyelids, heavy and you're feeling the effects of another late night. How will you get through the next two hours? Before you ru... Read >

Road Rage - A New Disorder or a Symptom of Today's Chaotic Lifestyle?

You're a law-abiding, tax paying member of society. People respect you, you're generally happy with life (aside from minor annoyances), and you practice fairly good self control at work and home. But when you get behind the wheel of your car, you change. ... Read >

Escape The Pace: 15 Golden Minutes To Relaxation At Work And Home

"On the keyboard of life, always have one finger on the escape key." - Anonymous It's a miserable, cold Tuesday morning and you've slept through your alarm again. You race through the first part of your morning and then hit the highway like an Indy 5oo... Read >

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off: 7 Secrets to Eliminate Chaos and Gain Peace and Prosperity

Has this ever happened to you? You're in the midst of a million errands and you suddenly stop mid task and think, "What the heck am I doing? I don't want to be this busy!" Then, you find yourself fantasizing about long, uninhabited white sandy beaches ... Read >

7 Rituals To Improve Your Life and Business

What do Valentine's Day, Christmas, dating, dinner and a movie, marriage and couples have in common? Rituals. A ritual is defined as ‘any method of doing something in which the details are always faithfully repeated.' To relate this to your life, rit... Read >

Why You Should Ignore Your Cell Phone and Laptop: Six Keys to a Great Vacation

It's a gorgeous, warm day and you're loading your black SUV with a beach blanket, cooler, sunscreen, a sun umbrella, your family and ?your cell phone and laptop. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, you've worked hard all year and look forward to a... Read >

Techno-Stress: Six Survival Rules

You know you have techno-stress when you can't keep up with newspapers and letters that arrive at work and home. Cell phones ringing in restaurants make you want to scream and your workload continues to mount as you are available 24 hours a day anywhere o... Read >