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Using Your internalGPS to Illuminate the Darkness

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, Author I love reflecting the light back to my coaching clients. It is sometimes a challenge for them to see their own light that is buried under big challenges. They need a Coach to…
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Following Your internalGPS: Goodbye to an Inspirational Model

❝Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow…
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Listening To My internalGPS & Letting Go

“Sometimes we have to walk away from everything that has meant security for us in order to reach our dreams” – Stacy Allison–The first American woman to summit Mt. Everest Several years ago, I ended a long marriage that had become miserable and then a couple years ago, I walked away from my big paycheck,…
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Positive Thinking & Affirmations Caused Big Malfunctions in My internalGPS

What? One of my most popular speeches is called, “Using your internalGPS to Stay Positive & Productive in Difficult Times.” Yet, I strongly believe positive thinking and affirmations are dangerous and can keep you stuck in denial for a long time. It did for me. I was unhappy in my marriage and in my career…
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Overcoming Overwhelm with Your internalGPS

It is uncanny how often my coaching opportunities relate to what I also need in my work or life. I have had numerous conversations about staying focused and energized in the face of, “too much to do” or “not enough time” or “I’m feeling overwhelmed with all these changes.” Pause Even for just a minute…
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Coaching Impossible Into Opportunity

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll In the past couple months; I have had the great opportunity to coach two different teams using the amazing Team Advantage process. It has been a great experience on many different levels. But, last week, I realized…
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Coaching A Reality Shift With New Eyes

“The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust How you see things or your beliefs in the certain ways of things can hinder your feelings of freedom and choice and then these feelings limit your actions and it becomes a cycle of reality that justifies…
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Coaching Your Pause Button

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” – Unknown I carried this quote around with me several years ago as a reminder. A couple weeks ago I had a harsh reminder of it. I was sound asleep in my comfortable hotel bed when the loud hotel alarm sounded, an obnoxious siren followed by a recording to…
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Doing & Taking vs. Giving & Receiving

I loved learning about this concept from Amanda Owen’s book, “The Power of Receiving.” (her website linked). She explains that if you are in the doing and taking process then you are feeling resentful and greedy or frustrated and entitled. Contrast this with the feelings of gratitude and generosity if you are in the giving and…
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Coaching Perseverance, Patience & Perfection

Keep Going It was both inspiring and daunting to discover that Jack Canfield, famous author of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” books had 144 rejections before his first “soup” book was published. Would you have kept trying after that 100th rejection? I think that I would have given up after rejection number 50 or…
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