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The Resilience of a Massive Rock in a River
When I was much younger, I remember being in a time of high stress and change. There seemed to be a lot of things coming at me in life and work. It was all very overwhelming. The energy of other people, the demands of getting things done at work, the ambition of moving forward on…
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Help Me With My Procrastination!
How many of you procrastinate? Not just the occasional thing, but EVERYTHING. Waiting until the last moment to finish work. Avoiding it all until it really needs to get done. Then it’s a mad rush, a huge flurry of activity to finish. And when it is done, you don’t feel good about yourself or the…
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What Are You Feeling Right Now?
Hey, how are you feeling right now? Do you know? How specific can you get? Is it something that you can’t quite put a finger on? Or only some general label of feeling? Or something super specific down to the exact identifying emotion? In coaching we like to generate awareness first of what is going…
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I’ve Got a Podcast for Coaches!
It’s the amazing Sandy Swanson, ACC, NBC-HWC, A-CFHC and I taking a humorous and serious look at coaching and our own journeys. We are up to Episode 8 now with Planning and Support, part of our short series on the coaching conversation structure. “Let’s make a plan! This episode is all about helping your client plan action…
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Why isn’t My Team Doing What I Want Them to Do?
Are you a new manager? In my coaching practice, I have many who are new managers and want to become better ones. They often come to me wondering why their team isn’t doing what they want them to do. New managers come with many pre-conceived notions on how to motivate people. Notions about leading, communicating,…
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Stress Doesn’t Kill You – Your Mindset About Stress Does!
One of my favorite TED talks is by Kelly McGonigal, a Stanford University psychologist. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s worth a view. We like to say in coaching, mindset is everything. And here, your life may depend on it. There is so much stress we feel now in the world. But what is…
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Layoffs and the Work Visa = MAGNIFIED STRESS
So many clients I’ve talked to recently, during this period of many layoffs across the industry, are here on work visas. If you are here on a work visa but don’t have a permanent status via Green Card, AND if you are let go or laid off, then you have 60 to 90 days to…
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“I Feel Burned Out”
Does this resonate with your state of being right now? This article just came across my feeds: Worker burnout hits high worse than COVID-19 peak: survey That workers are feeling more burned out than pre-pandemic, 42% now versus 38% a year ago. Is that surprising to anyone reading this? With recent economic woes and layoffs…
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What’s Emotion Got to Do With Habits?
Following on my Habits Don’t Work post, I’d like to share something that can really help you sustain any kind of pattern in your life. You just need to add emotion to it. How many times have you tried to sustain a pattern without working with emotions? Were you successful? Emotions can reinforce patterns exponentially.…