When You’re Silenced…and How to Get Your Voice Back
Shania Twain was a rising county singer on top of the world a few years ago. And then it happened…she was silenced!
Shania had the talent and ambition and her ex-husband, Mutt Lange, had helped her forge a new genre of county music – county, pop, rock all rolled into a sexy new package. All was well until the day she discovered the ultimate betrayal – her husband having an affair with her best friend who was also her assistant.
Shania withdrew and then she was gone…gone from the airwaves, television, Internet – vanished! She’d lost her voice.
I understood her pain and where she was coming from because in the last year…
How to Re-ignite Lost Creativity
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
Are you a creative person? When you think of creativity, what comes to mind?
For most of us, we think of the ‘paintbrush in hand,’ kind of creativity – the artist who paints, sculpts, the author, the actor…We don’t think our spicy Italian stew that we created warrants any kind of uniqueness. The fact that we can finish hardwood floors, lay tile like the pros – it doesn’t strike us that that’s creative but it is.
And what about the person who feels ‘stressed, tapped out or faced with some sort of creative block?’ How can we re-ignite lost creativity? Simple. We act like we did before we reached the ripe old age of seven.
Research shows that we’re at our most creative when we’re five and then…
A Life-Saving Vacation that Costs Business Owners Almost Nothing
Award-winning book gives time-stressed people 100 ways to slow down, take a little break, and increase productivity.
For 50 weeks straight one year, Lisa Rickwood did not feel good.
Two small children, a growing business, and working over 40 hours a week siphoned Lisa Rickwood of her time, sanity, and health.
Her wake-up call was clear. She needed to escape, but how? Were others feeling as stressed out as she was?
In her award-winning book, Escape the Pace: 100 Fun and Easy Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Your Life, Rickwood takes on North America’s serious time-drain epidemic and its negative effects: Time-sickness, impatience with ourselves and others, and our need to do it all.
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Take Back Your Most Precious Commodity
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VANCOUVER, B.C. May 1 2006 — Vancouver Island author, Lisa Rickwood, has partnered with Nanaimo’s newest day spa, Chakra’s Esthetics to create a spa package aimed at the busy urban woman. On Saturday, May 8th, a dozen such women will experience Rickwood’s self-care seminar, a catered lunch and spa treatments at Chakra’s Esthetics.
“The idea to create this escape was really based on providing women with a lasting experience. Through the seminar, those women will learn how to create an escape for themselves anytime. Our whole philosophy is to stop feeling guilty and start taking care of you,” explains Rickwood.
Stop What You Are Doing and Take a Break
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VANCOUVER, B.C. April 17 2006 — Vancouver Island author Lisa Rickwood wants everyone to stop what they’re doing and take a break. She says the average North American worked 36.4 more hours in 2002 than they did a decade earlier and on average 3 hours more per week than their European counterparts. Lisa came across many surprising statistics while researching her book, Escape the Pace: 100 Fun and Easy Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy Your Life.
“There are countless ways a person can slow down and take stock of their life,” advises Rickwood. “One can do anything from spending a few minutes for deep-breathing exercises at their desk to taking a scenic walk on their lunch break.” It doesn’t take a lot of time or money to start taking better care of you.
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We Should Get Back to the Table
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VANCOUVER BC October 15, 2005 — Vancouver Island author, Lisa Rickwood, wants everyone to slow down and eat with family at the dinner table. Rickwood is a passionate supporter of Take Back Your Time Day held annually on October 24.
Take Back Your Time is a major initiative in the US and Canada which challenges our current societal trends of overwork, over-scheduling and the resulting time famine most North Americans face on a daily basis. This year the focus is on getting time-stressed families back to the dinner table so they can reconnect with each other.
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Lisa Rickwood, BFA, CPCC, founded Escape the Pace® in 2003 after suffering the stress of witnessing an employee die in a store she helped her husband manage. She is the author of Escape the Pace, co-author of Power & Soul with Ali Brown, and is an accomplished visual artist. She works with executives, corporations, entrepreneurs, and employees to help minimize stress and time management crises, and get creative, innovative, and productive.