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Speaking Up to Navigate to Success

You’ve read about listening and its’ many virtues in several of my posts so I figured it was time to give speaking up some focus. Not long after I joined the General Manager’s staff at my last corporate job one of my peers said, “You jumped right in and didn’t just sit there like some…
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Coaching to Focus on What is Going Well for Success with less Stress

Ok, it is impossible to ignore the pile of torn up cardboard, paper, and broken glass in the middle of the kitchen floor from the dog’s rebelliousness while you were out (this was my afternoon today). But you can clean it up quickly and then focus on more productive actions. Or you can rant and…
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Creating Strong Connections for Success with Less Stress

How are your relationships? Both business and personal connections play a key role in navigating to success with less stress. I credit my success at moving up the corporate ladder with cultivating strong connections as much or more as my working hard to perform well. You can be the best at what you do and…
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Get More Done in Less Time for Success

Time is the commodity that can not be purchased and once it is gone it is gone forever. Managing this precious commodity has a significant impact on navigating to success in both the short and long term. Here are some of my coaching tips for managing this precious commodity: Schedule “thinking” time. Scheduling time on…
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Transform Your Ability to Navigate to Success With the Tipping Point of 3 to 1.

Three positive emotions to one negative emotion; this is the scientifically proven tipping point to go from floundering to flourishing. It sounds easy enough but unfortunately studies consistently show that 80% of us have a ratio of 2 to 1. Think about the number of times that you feel impatient, angry, frustrated or fearful versus curious,…
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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 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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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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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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