Category: Self-Aware Leader

Make a Plan For Your New Year

Happy Holidays! December is a great time of the year to reflect on the year past and the year ahead and make a plan! You know it is hard to accomplish what you don’t have a plan for. In the next 10 posts, we are going to walk through 10

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Embracing Failure

In our American society, we are conditioned “failure” is bad. From the time we are in school, the F is the dreaded sign of a “bad student” lacking in ability, skill or talent to do what they need to do to get a passing grade. Maybe the F was needed

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5 Tips For Being More Grateful

Gratitude, thankfulness, or gratefulness are all expressions of a heart that has a contentment, appreciation, and joy for the blessings one has. It is not because of all you have, but an attitude of joy founded in the outlook a person views life from. There are touching stories of homeless people role modeling

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Will You Recognize the Possibility?

Possibility is one of my favorite words… because it is a concept that our human selves do not go to as often. The human being is more naturally negative and seeing the “scarce” or “lack” of things. This is in relationships, work, home, friends, things, etc. We tend to look at

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3 Keys To Get Traction In Your Life/Work

In today’s highly changing business world, getting traction in your business or achieving success can be a challenge. Competing for people’s attention and standing out in the crowd are keys to get to where you want in business. With so many things to do, many quickly feel overwhelmed. First, don’t

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Perspective: Struggle or Easy?

It is obvious that depending on our location, distance and view we see things differently.  Understanding how perspective on topics and life outlooks can create differences and can lead to conflict, stress and challenge is less obvious. We might know this, but perspective can be a hard topic to self-reflect

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Perfectionism

Often we people (especially perfectionists) can think of perfectionism as a positive and honorable thing.  After all, it is the quest for doing things well and doing things right. The more I look at perfectionism, the more I realize how much I struggle with it. I personally am very far

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How to Have Great Remote Relationships

More and more people today work remotely or on the go.  With the many technology options, we have to communicate, it is much easier to be massively on task and accidentally become relationally rude or flippant. Have you ever thought about how you come across to others? While I would

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Does Focus Really Matter?

Why would you want to be focused or develop the skill of focus? Does it really matter? Does it really help? The truth is most people are NOT naturally focused or disciplined.  In today’s world, it can be very challenging to focus. Years ago in the time management workshops, we

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Ten Ways to Increase Your Discipline

Wow! Have you ever looked up what “discipline” means? There are a LOT of negative connotations about the word. When I am talking about discipline, however, I am referencing the skill of being able to focus and stick to a course of action or routine in order to develop, advance

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