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Reprogramming – Hard but Necessary!

Turning your mind away from familiar old programming (stories you tell yourself, other people’s voices you carry, societal conditions of existence, deep beliefs) and into new pathways can be a challenging process, as challenging as hacking a path through a jungle with a machete. Right now, your thought patterns, for good or ill, are as ingrained as an eight-lane superhighway and shifting something that smoothly [...]

A General Direction is Better than Specifics

When it comes to setting a course for yourself and your development, a broad statement is better than a specific and here’s why: A broad statement allows room to adapt to change when change comes, as it always does. A broad statement lets you achieve more if more is available and doesn’t make you feel bad if you achieve a little less. A broad statement [...]

How Do I Know if I’m Communicating with Impact?

The answer is incredibly simple: “If you’re getting the results you want, if people are listening to you and if they’re responding favorably, then your communication is impactful. If you’re not, then it’s not.” People fail to communicate with impact when they don’t realize that impactful communication consists of two parts, one internal and one external. Before we ever communicate anything to anyone, we first [...]

Stop Expecting People to Know What To Do

Not getting the results you need or want from your team? As a leader, you can’t get mad when your people don’t know what to do. Sure, leadership competencies might be a Google search away, but there’s a massive difference between reading about what’s expected in the world and knowing what’s expected in your specific workplace. Provided that you’ve hired team members who are intelligent [...]

Where Has Your Sense of Wonder Gone?

One of the things that's so great about making friends with your inner child is that you can continually access a sense of wonder and joy.   Think about the kids in your life - they are very rarely sitting around, ho-hum about the day to day. Instead, they are often very excited about the smallest things, and express their joy and delight regularly. When [...]

Why Childhood Experience Matters

A lot of people have the idea that the past has passed and has no effect on what we do day-to-day. Though it is very true that we cannot change the past, the past can be very helpful for helping us understand our behavior in the present. In all my work with clients over the years, we can often trace current triggers such as issues [...]

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