I recently returned from skiing in Park City with two of my favorite girlfriends. This same threesome skied Whistler last year. You may be assuming I'm a proficient skier - you would be wrong. In fact, while there are moments of joy and feeling in sync with my skis, most of me just wants to get to the bottom. So why keep skiing? For the same reasons you keep trying things even when there's little forward movement. Giving up means failure. Being included makes us feel special. And our habitual …
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Get Clarity. Make Smarter Decisions.
Here's how I got the clarity to make a difficult choice that validated my priorities and lowered my stress and inner conflict. Do I like skiing? What are my expectations and how much time and money do I want to invest to make this fun? Where does skiing fit into my priorities? What's higher on the list that's being ignored or compromised? Bringing gratitude to the richness and beauty in my life made it easier to let go. Realizing I risked minimizing the joy and fun derived …
Fresh perspective on goal setting for the New Year
If you're looking for a way to set goals that will positively impact all areas of your life and avoid feeling out of balance, try these from Raphael Louis Viton - December 12, 2018, Axialent Conscious Business - link to full article at the end: POSITIVE: What did I love most about 2018? When was I happiest? What am I most grateful for from 2018? Which three moments were most meaningful? AUTHENTIC/PURPOSEFUL: Where did I really use my strengths? How did I live out my …
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Why Your Employees Stop Producing. Or leave.
For 25 years I’ve helped people find success and happiness because for years I couldn’t. Throughout my 20’s I worked for micro-managers in fear-based cultures and experienced more than one incident of sexual harassment. A dramatic meltdown forced me into a month-long hiatus. It was time I learned to manage my career instead of leaving it up to fate. As I figured things out, I attracted others looking for similar answers and soon had a side job as a career coach in addition to a new career in …
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Can political foes be friends?
I just returned from a river cruise along the Rhine. River boats are small and intimate and you can easily make new friends if you want to. At breakfast on our first morning, we and our traveling partners met a fun and engaging couple and spent lots of time with them over the next few days. On the morning of the third day, the "he" of the couple pulled a logoed hat out of his bag and flashed it in front of me. I squinted at first and then with a dismayed look said, "What is THAT?" With the …
