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Coaching Your Strengths: Delegate or Outsource For Success

If you have a real “can-do” attitude and strong work ethic then you may be tempted to do it all. In order to navigate to success with less stress, know your strengths and then delegate or outsource the other tasks as much as possible. The site for myinternalGPS was outsourced to Sprout Strategies; they specialize…
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Coaching to Create Space for Success with Less Stress

What does coaching have to do with creating space? Well, I have found that creating space both physically and mentally will enable you to be more innovative and productive. I tend to create small paper piles on my desk (sometimes they grow to be big piles). When I look at the pile I get the nagging feeling…
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Coaching Through the Holidays: Presents of Prescence

The holidays can be a joyous time and a stressful time or a stressful time with no joy. It is so easy to get caught up in all the things we feel we must do: shopping, wrapping, year-end tax decisions. My holiday coaching challenge is to stay present in each moment. Focusing on the current…
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Coaching For Navigating to Success: It’s the Little Things

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. Do you remember yours from last year? Are they the same ones you made the year before? It is better to have annual goals than not have any at all, but I have found more success by focusing on daily habits versus annual goals. If you want…
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Water & Adaptability in China

This is a picture of the Chinese character for water. One of the students made it for me in my journal. He said that this character holds a lot of power in China. Water is a powerful symbol because it is so adaptable. Think about all the forms that water can take and the power it…
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Coaching Common Challenges in China

Things are so different here in China and yet there are so many things that we have in common. There were some common themes from my coaching sessions with the young Chinese women this week. I think we can all relate to them, so I thought I would share them along with some tips. How do you…
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Stretching for Leadership Growth & Success

Can you picture one of those medieval machines used to stretch and torture? Periodically I picture this terrible device and although I am in no physical pain whatsoever I still feel like I am being stretched on it. The level of suffering in my mind is consistent with the level of torture I imagine. Of…
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Are You an Energetic Leader?

I read this blog post earlier this week and loved it, “Three Tips for Becoming an Energizer” by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for Harvard Business Review. She emphasizes the importance of this overlooked leadership quality and lists three characteristics of energetic leaders (see the link for more): A relentless focus on the bright side. Redefining negatives…
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Listening to Navigate to Success

How well do you listen to yourself and others? Do you fully focus on the other person when you are in a conversation and give them space to fully express themselves? Do you give yourself silence during your day to tune into your thoughts? In our fast-paced, multi-tasking world we tend to miss out on…
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Keeping Perspective for More Success with Less Stress

Last week I wrote about having strong commitment and letting go of our attachment to the outcome. Having a strong commitment can become stressful and serious, especially if the deadline is coming more quickly than you anticipated, or other unplanned events take your time away from the work required. I am working on a couple…
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