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Nov 18
2 min

Thanksgiving Challenge - A Special Invite to your Table

We all likely have a significant internal negative voice known by a number of references: Saboteur, Gremlin, Inner Critic to name a few. ...

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Sep 23
2 min

Friendship at Work

Gallup, the organization behind StrengthsFinders and multitudes of employee engagement studies, have consistently shown the importance of...

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Aug 27
2 min

Resilience - "toughening up?"

In response to COVID-19 impacts to our state agency workforce, I developed some material (the ASCENT document titled C.A.R.E.) that discu...

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Jul 27
2 min

Courage (a sign you care!)

Our environments are filled with complexity, uncertainty and fear all working to undermine individual and collective courage. It can feel...

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May 13
1 min

Thresholds

In life we open and close many doors crossing over thresholds. This is normal, healthy human behavior and invites us into new relationshi...

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Apr 20
2 min

Stop, Challenge and Choose

In the wonderful book Play to Win, by Larry and Hersch Wilson, we are introduced to an effective way of retraining our brains through a p...

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Mar 23
2 min

Time to turn over a new belief

The recent precautions and restrictions intended to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 impacts are presenting each of us new opportunities t...

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Feb 24
2 min

Working with "Wednesday-morning Paul"!

Very few know this, but I have a clone. His name is Wednesday-morning Paul (W-MP). We appear identical in every way and if you were to me...

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Jan 21
2 min

How to make a good apology

"Apologies are the Brussels sprouts of relationships" - says author Sharon Begley. Good for us, but often passed over. If apologies are ...

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Nov 22, 2019
2 min

Alignment in Gratitude

Behavioral and psychological research has shown some surprising life improvements that can arise from the practice of gratitude. To pract...

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Oct 25, 2019
2 min

Scary stories...that I'm making up?

This time of year, my tv channels are filled with scary movies, my neighbors decorate their yards with goulish images and the dark skies,...

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Sep 26, 2019
2 min

The Future is Here

Futurist Bob Johansen, in his book Leaders Make the Future, made this unsettling statement: "In my 40 years of forecasting futures, the d...

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Aug 13, 2019
2 min

Ripples

Most of us have experienced tossing an object into a still body of water and watching it create a series of sustained ripples extending f...

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May 21, 2019
2 min

Choosing Greatness

Choosing Greatness May Action Learning Blog

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Apr 10, 2019
2 min

An Empowered Culture

An Empowered Culture Is your culture creating dependency or partnership?

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Mar 12, 2019
2 min

Can I be less anxious?

Many today suffer from chronic anxiety and fear run amok. If you don’t suffer personally, you likely know someone that does. It’s not alw...

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How to keep the leadership fire burning?

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Jan 8, 2019
2 min

How to keep the leadership fire burning?

One of the challenges in development is the “fits” and “starts” nature of it. We can experience powerful awareness, realize new insights ...

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Oct 8, 2018
1 min

Daring to be Vulnerable

I just finished Daring Greatly by Brene’ Brown. Brene’ has done ground-breaking work in the arenas of courage, vulnerability and shame re...

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Jan 2, 2018
1 min

Where am I making Excuses?

What are the best excuses and stories you have heard lately? Have you caught yourself in mechanism- stories, excuses, blame, diminishing ...

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