Easter, time for renewel. Are you stressed? Need a break? Let's have some chocolates hey! Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves? Performing, running after our tails! Chasing something or somebody, always wanting more, more, and more. We love to look busy, to feel important, to burn ourselves out, to start again at the begin of the cycle of the wanting more, more, more, running after our tails, get a bigger house, a bigger car, a higher position until we explode, until we realise what is that all about? Is our health worth all this circus, for what at the end of the day? We forget to enjoy the ride and have fun along the way.It took me while to realise that and I am still learning like all of us every day. Our closet is FULL of stuff, our desk is FULL of documents, our head is FULL of thinking about our TO DO list, our tummy is FULL of food. Let's have a break, have some fun and not be FOOL! Unique Anick



 
 
March 8th is the International Women's Day around the globe. As we collaborate together men and women on the planet, in businesses offering services and creating products, in families raising children our future, we live together and we both have within us a part which is pro-active, dynamic and achievers yet we also have a part of us that is more about caring, details oriented and nurturing. We need one another to live in harmony, in balance to be able to create outstanding and powerful results. Take a moment to reflect on it  Unique Anick
 
 
I know I know, we all talk about the same topic this month LOVE. Like The Beatles song "love, love, love"... Can't skip the Valentine highly commercial event. Well my view on the subject  is that we can change or expand our perception of just the "romantic love version" of Valentine's Day to a greater way of loving, be loved, falling in love, a rather extended definition of LOVE... First of all have you asked yourself "do I love my job?" Do I love my life? Do I love my role? What do I love at work? What do I love in my life? Amongts all these questions, surely you will find something you love at work and at home. On Valentine's Day if you are single and feel miserable, take yourself out on a date and do something you LOVE. Treat yourself with self-love. Also take a moment to write down a list of all the things, the people, the places, wine and food, the tasks, the activities you love at work and in your life. I promise you will be surprised of the amount of LOVE there is in your life when you take the time to acknowledge it. Love is in the air... One thing I love doing is singing even the cheesy songs. Unique Anick
 
 
Join me in this new decade and let's discover together how to dance in the rain when the storms are there! Shall we? I intend this year to offer you my best tips and receipes in managing stress. First of all can you describe stress? What does it look like? Does it have a color or a shape? Can you hear Stress talking? Does it make a noise? Can you feel stress perhaps? Can you describe the feeling in your body? Follow me on Facebook and Linkedin, check my website and give me a call to book a presentation and I'll reveal you all my secrets about managing stress. Unique Anick
 
Already Xmas ! 12/09/2009
 
I choose to not  get into the Christmas stress. What I decided to do for the Christmas break is : meditate. I am going on a 10 days Vipassana meditation retreat, 10 days with me, myself and I. I will experience 10 days of total silence, simply breathing in and out, focussing on my breath, practising how to quiet my mind. I am going to learn the skills of training my brain muscle and embodying self-discipline that is for sure waking up at 4.30am every morning, no talking, no eyes contact (and I'm not a morning person). Nothing overly exciting quite frankly but rather useful when you own a business and that business is you, yourself and yours! We are always in motion, moving from one place to the other and from one thought to another. Moving from your boss's office to yours and from your car to the house, from the office to the shop often running and rushing forgetting to take a breath... Movements are repetitive and constant whereas stillness is a way of being that we forget to experience and stillness is where our power resides.  What ever you choose to do for Chritmas take a moment to breath and to be rather than doing and rushing from one dinner party to another. Be a "human being" rather than a "human doing. This my gift to you for Chritmas and have a happy one what ever you choose to be and do!
Be well Unique Anick
 
 
Do you remember when was the last time you congratulated a colleague at work? You said: "Hey wow, I am impressed by your performance." I must admit you scored on a high level on that transaction. You did remarkably well with your new presentation. Bravo! You go girl! Shake hands, pad in the back, some signs of recognition…You know what I mean. You encourage and you mean it when you say it! You even feel it in your whole body, having the goose bumps perhaps… I define it as celebrating someone else’s success and being happy for them and with them, feeling part of it even. Lots of organisations operate competitively with a scarcity mentality even within the company. How about we change paradigm and we practice new techniques “let’s celebrate our successes together”. A simple smile will do to start with! Unique Anick
 
 
Weather we like it or not, the world is in a bit of a chaos at the moment, we are going through enormous changes on the globe on many levels. Lets talk about your workplace (where most of us spend most of our time), you might have to cope with a diminution of employees in your teamwork or have to learn a brand new computer system when you still haven’t adapted to the previous one or perhaps you have a number of new tasks to achieve at work the list could go on and on... Well changes could become serious challenges when not handled properly or not dealt with. It is a process that can be fun, I invite you to explore this dance I named Boogie Woogie: First step to your dance, your boogie woogie with the change is to Acknowledge the change, look at it, name it, hear it, and feel the shift in your body. Second step Accept it, welcome it, invite the change for a cuppa, play with it even. Remember that denial or resistance create discomfort and if you play the ostrich and choose to bury your head in the sand, sooner than later you will have to breathe and the reality will still be right there in front of you. Acceptance really helps us to move forward and makes changes a lot lighter, life becomes much more enjoyable, like a dance a boogie woogie!
Unique Anick
 
Time to Act Now 09/28/2009
 
I attented the Breakthrough to Success seminar this week-end in Sydney with Chris Howard from Universal Events. High energy in the stadium, lots of powerful exercises. We spent time on our values on what is really important to us, we set our goals and changed our limiting decisions, wedid a forgiveness process and danced on stage! What I got from that seminar is taking actions gives results, sounds simple and it is, but you know mister procrastination come to visit us occasionally...
 
 
Do you walk around carrying your ball of stress on your shoulders? You know that tightness in the body combined with that constant racing mind? Do you find yourself at times having to carry your colleague’s ball of stress with whom you had a fight in the morning and the one of your child who’s failed an exam, your boss’s stress ball when he or she add more tasks on your desk and so forth. We get home overloaded with a huge bag full of balls of stress and unfortunately often we dump the load on our love ones in a rather unpleasant way! Surely there is a way to change that behavior and juggle with our balls of stress on a much more fun way! Come to my seminar to find out new juggling way with our stress' balls!