The Leadership Compass

Insights on Growth, Self-Discovery, and Thriving in Leadership

internalGPS® Executive Coach: Letting Go & Building the New!

My brain so easily goes to what is wrong, what didn’t happen, what I didn’t do, what I don’t have…Even after learning that this is a natural neurological “downward spiral” that the brain/mind is prone to do I can’t stop it nor my frustration with myself that I am doing it again. It is better….
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internalGPS® Professional Coach: How Story Making Is Scary

Have you noticed how story telling is everywhere now? I think the marketing gurus and politicians all figured out how we are hard wired for patterns and patterns are stories. I love a good one too, what I don’t love is how my brain (or mind) can immediately make up a story that is not…
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internalGPS® Professional Coach: One Little Thing for Big Improvements

I know it sounds too good to be true, just one little thing and it will give me big improvements? Really?!  Yes, I just did it yesterday. I was stuck. In traffic. It was ugly. No way to escape the jam of autos. I could feel my blood pressure starting to rise, my shoulders tensing….
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internalGPS® Professional Coach: Advice From the Dying – Friends & Choosing Happiness

In her book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware shares stories of her life and those of her dying patients, she heard these five regrets the most: Courage to live true to myself Don’t work too hard Courage to express my feelings -Last week’s post linked here Stay in touch with friends Choose…
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internalGPS® Coach: Advice From the Dying – Live True to Yourself

One of the ways I love to help clients is coaching them on how to make better choices on which way to go next. “Do I go find another job or work to make this one better?” “Which choice do I make to invest and grow my business?” “Should I go back to school and get an advanced degree?”…
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internalGPS® Coaching: Letting Go & Rising Strong™

I make it a tradition every year to let something go; it’s more fun and productive than those crazy resolutions. I gave those up a long time ago, thank God. Things I’ve let go of in the past: “Being a runner” No running for me, if you have that runner’s high then more power to…
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internalGPS® Coach: Finding Your Daring Way In Tumultuous Times

It is a challenging time in our US political space; how do you stay centered and courageous in the midst of (this or other) turmoil? I often think of Steven Covey’s “circles of influence, concern” that I learned about decades ago. It gives me a way to let go of the frustration/anxiety with things that…
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internalGPS® Coach: How to Be Powerful and Classy

I read this Wired article, “Taylor Swift Is The Queen Of The Internet” last week and it inspired me to write this post. Here are four steps to program your internaGPS® to be powerful and classy: 1. Own Your Value and Power You have power through your character (confidence, trust, authenticity, integrity) and power that…
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internalGPS Coach: Finding Your Way To Better

It comes natural to me, imagining things better. Not to imply that anything is bad, just that I regularly catch myself imagining them better. It happens in little ways like my friend’s ladder to look over her block fence at the neighbor’s yard. My imagination was filled with an interesting yard with beautiful plants and…
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Using Your internalGPS: Courageously Steering Through Fear

In the training on coaching skills that I give for a client, one of the modules is about your inner critic. It can be a voice to get you going or keep you stuck in fear, depending on what it is “saying” and how you’re interpreting it. It is a voice intended to protect us…
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