Category: Coaching
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Turn ‘What Ifs’ into ‘Even Ifs’
Your brain loves to play tricks on you. And one of the ways it does this is by throwing all sorts of random thoughts at you. Bacon and eggs while you’re in a meeting, cats playing baseball while you’re at lunch with a colleague, wildfires and hurricanes coming together while you’re settling into bed. Your…
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Building Trust in Unlikely Places
Trust is built in the small moments. As leaders, we find ourselves in pivotal situations every single day. We may not realize them at the time as being pivotal, but later in the day or the next, we understand just how important they were. And if we’re smart (or at least aware) we may think,…
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Control the Meaning, Control the Outcome
You may not always have self-control, but you always have meaning-control. What do I mean by this? Most of the time we are able to maintain good self-control over what we decide to do in certain situations. Other times we are swayed by various forces, and those forces can be internal or external. For instance,…
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You’ve Still Got It
We are all born awesome! And we know it! We think we are superheroes! We wear a red cape. We leap from tall tabletops. We climb trees, flex our biceps, do our power pose, chase down the bad guys, and save the world every afternoon. Because we are invincible when we are five years old.…
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Throw Away Your Verbal Crutches
Um, so ya know what I’d like to discuss today is, um, well, ya know. That! Right there! That is what we are going to look at today – our verbal crutches. We all have them and they are super annoying—not only annoying to ourselves, but to others as well. Most of the time we…