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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Play

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato In the Team Advantage coaching process that I use with teams and have seen transform teams in just the short 2-day kick off meeting (that is only the start), we set it up for play…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Uncovering Your internalGPS

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.” – Jean Huston A couple years ago, when I was facilitating a leadership program for young women at a University in China, it quickly became apparent that I had a lot of work to do to convince the students that they had many…
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Thursday Thoughts On Thriving: Connections

Thriving is all about connections; the more you cultivate connecting with the people around you the more you will thrive. I am writing this in Buffalo, NY, where I am reconnecting with people that I have not seen in years. Last night my sister and I had dinner with two women who we used to…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Ideas From Kindergarten

We can learn a lot from Kindergartners, I found this out a when I facilitated a fun team building game called “The Marshmallow Challenge.” (TED talk linked about this game) Teams of recent Kindergartner graduates are some of the best performers, they are only second to teams of Engineers/Architects when it comes to building the highest…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Daring Greatly For Innovation, Creativity & Change

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change….Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.” – Brene Brown Think about a time when you made a significant shift. You created something new or did something courageous that took you down a different path or failed horribly at it. You never felt the…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Time the Great Equalizer

No matter how much power, influence, or money you have, you cannot purchase more time. It is the great equalizer and a consistent challenge for both my individual and team clients. “If we just had more time…” or “It is just overwhelming with all that I have to do and I don’t seem to have…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: How Do You Thrive Online?

How do you increase your level of thriving with on-line tools to serve you, rather than suck your time away? How much time do you spend on line? If you are anything like me, I suspect it is a lot. There is a philosophical debate about whether all this time with the internet is good or bad…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Choosing Your Path to Success

“I am inspired by what you are doing!” and “I don’t understand what you are doing!” are both reactions to my choice of path to leave (or more recently turn down) a large corporate job and run my own business. The path of the corporate job and the path of entrepreneur both have their positives…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: Choice & Motivation

“When we choose for ourselves, we are far more committed to the outcome – by a factor of five to one.” This is from a Harvard Business Review article by Scott Keller (linked via the quote). He references a research project that had some participants pick their own lottery tickets and then ask if they…
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Thursday Thoughts on Thriving: How Many Thoughts Per Day Go into My internalGPS?

My first thought in seeing this outside my front door, “Oh what a mess…” A split second later I thought, “But the purple color is so nice…” and then my mind rambled on with back and forth thoughts on whether it was a mess or beautiful. Why am I sharing this? Because your mind produces…
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