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Freedom to Navigate to Success with Your internalGPS

As we in the US celebrate our freedom this summer I have been thinking about freedom as a state of mind. It is a way of looking at our choices. It is easy to forget that we have choices. We automatically think that there is no choice but to set that alarm, get up and…
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Navigating to Success Anniversary!

To celebrate this year of blogging I reflected back on some of the obstacles I faced in writing it and hope that sharing these lessons will help you navigate to success (toward your dreams). Daunting This is the best word to describe how I felt as I looked at my new site with zero blog…
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How Do You Focus for Success?

Focus is something I continue to work on; it is more challenging for some of us than others and I know for me it varies based on what I am doing. In our culture, many of us have the “shiny object syndrome”, jumping to the next interesting new e-mail, conversation, blog post, or video before…
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Simply Navigating to Success

I love simple solutions and simple ways of doing things. Our brains love simplicity. Here are some of my favorite powerful yet simple strategies for improving the quality of our complex work and home lives to navigate to success: Put things you use every day in the same place every time. Keys, eyeglasses, phone. Designate…
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Resilience: Navigating Around Obstacles & Through Detours for Success

How quickly you can recover and even grow from a set-back will make a big difference in your ability to navigate to success. The good news is that there are actions you can take to significantly improve your resilience. If you’re thinking that all is well and you have no need to read further, consider…
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Navigating the Sea of Ideas to Success

The creative process of generating new ideas has had a lot of focus in the business world over the past decade and for good reason. The more competition the more differentiation needed through creativity and innovation. Our internet world gives us an amazing flow of information and data for generating ideas. We can become buried…
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Imagine Yourself Powerfully Navigating to Success

Your imagination has a lot of power. Try this right now: imagine a bright yellow fresh lemon. Got it? Cut it in half and lift one juicy half to your mouth. If you are really imagining this then your mouth will produce additional saliva, guaranteed. Who cares about more saliva? Well, this is a fun…
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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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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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