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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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Listening to Navigate to Success

How well do you listen to yourself and others? Do you fully focus on the other person when you are in a conversation and give them space to fully express themselves? Do you give yourself silence during your day to tune into your thoughts? In our fast-paced, multi-tasking world we tend to miss out on…
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Keeping Perspective for More Success with Less Stress

Last week I wrote about having strong commitment and letting go of our attachment to the outcome. Having a strong commitment can become stressful and serious, especially if the deadline is coming more quickly than you anticipated, or other unplanned events take your time away from the work required. I am working on a couple…
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Navigating Success with Strong Commitment and No Attachment to the Outcome

Do you struggle with this like I do? I sometimes get very attached to the outcome that I have visualized and if it does not materialize then I become frustrated and disappointed. I remember when a friend kindly pointed out that I must let go of my attachment to the outcome. What? Let go of…
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Coaching for Effective Results with Positive Emotions

“Oh there is a word for that!” is a reaction I often have when I make a discovery about something that I intuitively sensed was true but had no way of describing it. Because I had no known description, my sense of truth was accompanied by doubt. It is interesting that when we have a…
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