Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

In a departure from the usual message from me, I would like to share with you some of the insightful comments that the last blog (Life by Choice) provoked from readers: “Thanks for sharing your experience. Every day life does happen to all of us, sometimes in strange and inconceivable...

Here is a real world example of how the choices we make, make us. How do you choose to be happy about an unfortunate circumstance? On a recent Saturday my car was broken into and my purse stolen. Yes, I know… there is never a “safe” place to leave your...

So how does Perspective (previous blog) relate to our feelings of happiness? Let’s dig a little deeper and look at the perspective that we bring to things. Life happens to all of us. Substitute another four letter word for life (hint – starts with an “s”) and the phrase takes...

Living in Tokyo taught me many things, yet one of the greatest lessons came through something seemingly simple. It is hard to describe living in a foreign country, yet I think most of you can relate on one level or another. Just take your world, turn it upside down and...

A recent lunch with a friend brought this subject to light. In our conversation, I detected that our views of happiness differed so I asked. The conversation followed this thread… Me: Do you deserve to be happy? Friend: Deserve connotates that you did something to deserve, that you earned the...

Rest that is! Many of us short-cut our bodies on the rest that is needed to restore and refresh us. We’ve all had those events or evenings when we just can’t get in the 7 to 8 hours we need. We are groggy or short-tempered the next day but we...