That fierce engine in the pit of your belly—Will—can do a lot. Will gets you up to feed the children after a stormy, sleepless night. Will gets you through that last semester, when the jumble of terms and grades and …
Why Will Won’t Work: How to make this fiery force work FOR, not AGAINST, you Read more »
Energy stealers are everywhere! They may be your family members, your friends or your co-workers. YOU may even be one yourself. A more common name is an Energy Vampire and we all know what vampires do! In this case the …
What is success? There are many definitions. One that I hear often is “to be able to do what you want.” That is true, but I would complete the definition by adding and underlining: “and knowing what you really want.” …
Empathy is a tough one, so let me help you crack the code. Empathy ≠ I know how you feel. Empathy ≠ I can imagine how I would feel in your situation. Empathy ≠ I am making sympathetic faces and …
Surrender to your natural rhythms for greater creativity and easier productivity Burnout has many causes, but one thing its victims have in common is they are pushers. They push those around them (employees, colleagues, spouses, children). They push against what …
The professional most at risk for burnout, is the one who thinks they are immune to it. As burnout scorches more ground, now claiming as many as 2 out of 3 professionals, every worker is effected, either directly or indirectly. …
There’s a special kind of goal called a “commit or quit” goal. If you haven’t heard of this, that’s not surprising, because I made it up. I made it up because I noticed I was doing too many things half-assed: …
When you were young, soft and psychologically pliable, you were probably shoved into various conformation machines (family, school, work) designed to mitigate your uniqueness. Uniformity, for the sake of being controlled, was paramount. Fitting-in was rewarded. Differences were buffed out …
Trust Your “GPS”– 5 Growth Path Signals for Discovering True You Read more »
This was going to be a post about JFM‘s (Just for Me’s, The Opposite of Burnout, p 28), the pleasant little treats we can give ourselves every day to restore and reinvent ourselves like: a break bright lipcolor watching the …
Let’s Be Here Now, beginning with NOW. Oops, there it goes. Okay, THIS Now. Now, this Now…and this, and this, and this. Now shifts into another and another and another. Now is infinitely fleeting, morphing into the next and the …