Having the right skills is pertinent in delivering the desired brand experience to our customers. To do this, we must differentiate ourselves.

Every human being is equipped with the most complex machine in the world, our brain. Composed of over 100 Billion parts, we can now understand precisely what our brain is wired for. But most of the time we use this machine according to the paradigms and preconceptions of others.

We must keep in mind that happiness clears the mind of internal noise, freeing up space to think. More connections fire into logical and rational centres, hence we act in optimal productive state.

Jerome-Pierre Bonnifay
CEO & Senior Consultant
SBIC Services Sdn Bhd
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Logic makes us think. Emotions make us act. Right now, there is a lot of fear dictating our actions. What would you do differently if you acted each day with passion?

When you feel: CALM & CLEAR
                                Your life is: Smooth & Focused

When you feel: GRATEFUL & HAPPY
                         Your life is: Productive and Creative

When you feel: PASSIONATE
                                    Your life is: Energized, Connected and Miraculous

Do you want to your life to feel energized, connected and miraculous?

Then do the Passion Quest….

Sometimes our passions lie below the surface. It has been so long since we have fed our passions, we forget what they look and feel like. The following exercise will help you to get back in touch with your life’s passions. You need at least 30 minutes in a comfortable place to adequately do this exercise.

It is best to do this with a buddy. Answer the questions out loud. Speaking about your passions with someone else who cares helps you to recall the wonderful feelings they inspire.

STEP #1

Go beyond your logical brain and into your emotional brain. From here, you can find the truth about what you love and what you most desire in life.

CHOOSE AND COMPLETE THREE OF THE FOLLOWING FIVE EXERCISES

· Name the last movie you saw that you loved. Tell what you liked about the story.

· Describe what you like and don’t like about a book you are reading.

· List three of your favorite smells. Describe what the smells remind you of.

· List three of your favorite comfort food. Describe when you last ate these foods.

· List three of your favorite sounds. Explore what you feel when you hear these

sounds and why.

STEP #2

AFTER COMPLETING STEP #1, CAN YOU NAME WHAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT IN LIFE? IF NOT, ANSWER 2-3 OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

· What was one of the best days of your life so far?

· What would you like to be your first thought in the morning?

· Recite your favorite saying or prayer.

· Finish this sentence…If I had a lot of money, I would… After you do what you think you would do with the money, what would you do?

· Finish this sentence...”If I had all the time in the world, I would…”

STEP #3

AFTER COMPLETING STEP #2, CAN YOU NAME YOUR PASSION? IF NOT, ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. TAKE YOUR TIME TO CONNECT WITH THE TRUTH.

· What questions do you ask yourself when you are alone in your darkest moments?

· What prison are you struggling to free yourself from? What will you do when you are free?

NOW…. GIVE VOICE TO YOUR PASSION.

Note: If you are feeling sad and cannot sense your passion, take the time to think about your answers. Write them down in a journal. See what bubbles up in a few days.

Going into your emotional brain may be uncomfortable for some people if it has been a while since you have ventured there. Yet, if you do this exercise a few times, you will be amazed at the wisdom that comes forth. You need access to this part of your brain to make the right choices for you happiness, health and freedom in life.

Do parts or all of this exercise before you start your day, make an important decision or go to an important meeting. You may do the first part of the exercise with your team to share your passions, especially before you go into problem-solving mode. You might be surprised if you do this exercise with friends or family; maybe you don’t really know what they are passionate about. Wouldn’t it be a nice way to get to know each other better?

If all of the above does not work……… you need help! FAST!!!!

However I am confident you will have rediscovered a bit of yourself that you had forgotten for a long time, or never taken care of!

I leave you for today with my warmest wishes to reaching your passions!

Dr. JP Bonnifay
CEO & Lead Consultant
HPI Sdn. Bhd.

A French writer once said that one China will wake up, the world will tremble…. Today, the tables have turned. We have trembled… But we are now facing a new global movement, which is characterized by yet another saying: when the US sneeze, all the global economies shiver… Unfortunately. Nobody heard the US sneeze, and now they are in bed with a very bad cold! So where does that put us???

Well in an very positive way, I would say it puts us in a place where we have never been before. We are today at the cross roads of most of our life’s. We reached a tipping Point, and someone else punched us over…. So now we need to swim, Problem: some of us can swim, but the old way, with the current, and some of us can’t swim, so we need to learn. And I think this is where our survival stands, in our will and ability to move forward.

I usually don’t read the news paper in the morning as I am a firm believer in the Golden Hour…. That one hour after you wake up that will determine the mood of your day, or in other words, your psychological barometer…. So starting your day reading the newspaper might not be the best thing….. Did you ever see on the Front page any kind of good news? Never! It would not sell. It’s actually interesting that people pay money to buy newspaper and magazines that tell them how critical their condition is and how horrible it’s going to get, and then pay more money they go lie down on the couches of Psychologists, who listen to what is going wrong in their lives and then go spend more money to buy Xanax and Prozak or Valium to forget all the bad news and live on some kind of medical induced cloud….

And then I noticed this afternoon – as I was sitting in a waiting room – an article from a local Newspaper, staging a  few steps to success. Of course the usual: “in the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity” What actually attracted my attention was the rest of the article. As what we all need in our life today are not measure  shift in paradigms, which are very scary…. We need little tips, easy to implement and that can have almost immediate results.

In all my work in Emotional Intelligence, whether it be in training, coaching or mentoring, I have always asked the people I worked with to go for incremental changes…. Do not go for 180 degree changes, they are to hard to manage, unless you really need a massive break in your life. In most of the cases… mark my words, chew the elephant one bite at a time!

In this morning’s article, I read 4 pointers to follow: Re-invent yourself, Upgrade Yourself, Break your Routine, Grow your knowledge.

This is totally in the line of my guidance. And I will give you a few more ideas that you will find elaborated in my next book:

Start your day in a positive way, plan Black Out Times, Work out regularly (don’t aim at looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger), get up earlier then you use to, but insure at least 6 or 7 hours of sleep, write handwritten letters, look at situation from other’s perspective, look at situations proactively rather then reactively, challenge the conventional…..

I don’t want to tell you more as I am a firm believer in changing our life, step by step, and in today’s environment, the learning to take from the global turmoil is that we all need to do things differently. There is no more place for the routine of life as it was, we definitely need to re-invent ourselves.

This is in perfect alignment with the concepts of Emotional Intelligence I have been advocating for so long.

Start to take charge of your life and influence others.

Dr. JP Bonnifay
CEO & Lead Consultant
HPI Sdn. Bhd.