Routines – a combination of individual skills or tasks put together to form a whole. A sequence of actions regularly followed. We all have routines that support us or don’t support us. Even if your someone who likes to ‘go with the flow’ and have a casual spontaneity about you, believe it or not, that […]
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Apr
Apr
DISCOVER We are entering the 2nd quarter of the year! How are you doing focusing on your priorities? Often times my clients are discovering that even though they say ‘this or that’ is a priority, life happens, and reality shows them otherwise. It is an eye opener when we realize that our desired priorities, those […]
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Apr
Apr
Meetings, meetings, meetings, and more meetings to plan even MORE meetings. Does this sound like anything you’ve experienced? And now, with virtual working, we lose the ability to have those ‘drive-by discussions’ that often net movement and decision. Which in turn means more meetings! Meeting effectiveness is founded in systematic structure, however that systematic […]
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Mar
Mar
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. – Harriet Rubin Raise them up to let them go sounds almost counter intuitive to building committed leaders, and teams. “Why should I invest all this time and energy into my people, just […]
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Mar
Mar
I recently hired my son for weight training. We were at the gym doing bar squats. I had completed what I thought were 4 sets. 1 set was 10 squats and 3 sets of 25 squats. As I completed my 2-minute rest period, I was getting ready to move on to ankle raises. My […]
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Mar
Mar
It took me about 3 months to complete the above puzzle. 1000 small pieces! There were evenings I was obsessed with finding the next piece-a futile practice at times. While I was working diligently, I also observed myself ‘in process.’ The act of putting together a puzzle holds life and business lessons we can learn […]
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Mar
Mar
Recently one of my coaching clients used the term ‘decision fatigue’ to describe how he was feeling, and boy did it hit a nerve! It seems to me, the higher the uncertainty, the more energy it takes to make decisions. Being a decisive person, I’ve found myself over the past year ‘suspending’ many decisions. Why? […]
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Feb
Feb
“If you never copy best practices, you’ll have to repeat all the mistakes yourself. If you only copy best practices, you’ll always be one step behind the leaders.” James Clear I recently participated in an 8-day Meditation Retreat. What a commitment! The unique methodology of this particular program is to point the way, breaking down […]
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Feb
Feb
Resistance-What you resist, persists. Sometimes that quote just plain irritates me. The irritation is because it’s so profound in its simplicity. What isn’t simple is the work behind NOT resisting. Resistance is the first step in change, as I’ve discovered and, resistance can show up in many ways. I’m going to talk about three […]
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Jan
Jan
I’m often asked, “yeah, but how do I really let go?” The million-dollar question! The simple answer, It’s a decision. The long answer, long meaning over time, is to learn how to explore your own beliefs, assumptions, values, biases, attachments, experiences and perspectives. Hidden somewhere is one of those is the root to your pain. […]