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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: 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: 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: 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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Reaching Higher Happiness with My internalGPS

“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s heaven for?” – Robert Browning “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell These quotes seem to conflict with each other, if I am reaching for more beyond my grasp then how can I have happiness in acceptance? Accepting both of these ideas together in…
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Part 4: Creating Your Own Luck with Your internalGPS

Last week (linked below if you missed it) was the third of four posts on how to create your own luck. It was all about how to use Curiosity, Competence and Caring to create your own luck. This week is Kindness and Knowledge. This “L U C K” acronym is a fun way to remember…
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Saying “I love you” at Work -Is my internalGPS Malfunctioning?

I joined a conference call recently and heard the end of a conversation with, “I love you.” This would not be a shock if it were a call with friends or family or even some Coaches…But, this was a guy I was working with as part of my consulting for a large Aerospace corporation; it…
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Using Your internalGPS to Choose Happiness & Less Work

A wonderful friend of mine (thank you Andrea!) posted this article on Facebook, “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.” It is interesting to hear what people had in common as regrets at the end of their life. All five regrets are powerful insights for living; the two that resonated the most with me right…
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Tips For More Harmonious Holidays

Japanese character for “Harmony” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Several coaching clients of mine have had a strong desire for more balance in their lives; can you relate to this? I coach them to consider harmony instead of balance. Balance can…
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