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Encourage Your Brain: Fake It ‘Til You Feel It …
... Then Feel It 'Til You Figure It Out! I ran across a study recently at PsyPost.org that talked about how “deep acting” improves interpersonal work relationships and work goal progress. Deep acting means you try to actually experience...
Encourage Your Brain: You’re Wired for Hope (Happy 2021!)
As we close out 2020, I’ve heard many people say how happy they are to have the year that brought COVID-19 closed out and behind us. That’s understandable. And then the typical “it’s a new year” message is: let’s plan, let’s get some goals...
Encourage Your Brain: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
As we’re in the gift-giving season, I was reminded of the Kodak commercials that popularized the phrase “the gift that keeps on giving”—meaning something that invokes good feelings over time. I’m still working on a few items on my shopping...
Apply This Mindset When Strengths Go Rogue
There are two sides to strengths. On one hand, they create value, thus creating a gateway to being accepted, belonging, and being of value to others. But strengths can also have a dark side if they are over-used. Instead of helping, they end up hurting … instead of...
Connection is Your Superpower
Our theme for the month is CONNECTION. Especially as many are still experiencing shelter-in-place conditions, or navigating the after-shocks of the pandemic and societal shifts. Like many of you, I sit alone in my home office many hours each day. Despite the Zoom...
What Wants to Happen
Nature always teaches. Observe it and find the next lesson to learn. This picture of Horseshoe Bend speaks to what wants to happen. That's how the bend was formed. Water flowing its natural path. There's a bend in our country right now, as the conversation on racism...
Acceleration — Speeding Up the Slowdown, Accelerating the Speedup
The last few months with the pandemic have been full of polarities and paradoxes. Slowing down, speeding up. The Slow Down We’ve had to slow our lives down. And we’ve had to do that slow down FAST. Overnight, everything stopped. No extra trips out-and-about for...
BIG NEWS! We’ve cut pricing in HALF! Here’s why…
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is allowing ACTP/ACSTH training organizations like ours to change its proportion of live learning hours. Due to COVID-19, ICF recognizes that the world, now more than ever, needs coaches as we navigate the pandemic. Career...
It’s OK to Want What You Want
What do you want? Human beings were put on this planet to create! If we are not creating, we are stagnating and atrophying. Our “wants” are an individualized expression of our unique DNA, and they happen to be a beautiful vehicle for creating. Give your wants some...
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