Feeling productive? Meeting your goals with flying colors? If not, try doing a daily evaluation of what worked and what didn’t and watch your productivity soar!
My productivity took a little hit the last couple weeks with the influx of three cavemen into my sacred home-office domain thanks to COVID-17. 😉Asking myself five question every day last week helped get me back on track and boosted my productivity.
Read MoreWith most of us suddenly working from home due to COVID-19, I thought I’d share some tips I’ve learned over the last decade. May the force be with you my friends! You’ve got this. We’re all in this together. 💪🏼
Read MoreI swam in overwhelm when I was relaunching my career and it still crops up in my life every once in a while. But now I know the source of it and have learned how to manage it better. Thanks to life coaching I’ve come to realize that overwhelm is an indulgent emotion that doesn’t serve us in our lives. We think it comes from our long to do lists but it doesn’t. It comes from our thoughts about them. Our to do list is neutral until we give it meaning with our thoughts. Some of us will choose to think (consciously or unconsciously) “I got this...bring it on!” and others will think “This is too much...I can’t possibly do this all.” That is the difference between whether once experiences overwhelm or not. Your thoughts and how you manage them!
Read MoreSelf-confidence the ability to be secure in yourself and your abilities without any evidence. It is the unshakeable faith in your ability to learn, try and not give up! It is the emotion you want to conjure up to fuel your actions when you are trying something new, like relaunching your career after taking time off to care for our kids or transitioning to a new job. (See my blog that highlights the difference between confidence and self-confidence). Thankfully, it is not a gene that some of us are predisposed to but a skill we can develop. Self-confidence is the emotion of growth that will propel you towards your dreams if you are willing to cultivate it. Below are three steps to cultivating self-confidence.
Read MoreHow many of you have big dreams you’d love to accomplish, if only you had the self-confidence to go after them?!
Many of you think self-confidence is an innate gift that some lucky few are born with or that you gain through lots of experience over time. The truth is self-confidence is accessible to everyone. It is a state of being that is created in your mind and you can start cultivating it right away!
Read MoreWe often think of discipline as being the antithesis of freedom, but in reality they are intimately connected.
If you really want something, you must move through discipline to get there.
Let’s take time as an example - the most valuable commodity of all. Many of us complain about not having enough time and say we are too busy to engage in self-care or look for our dream job. But what if I told you there is always enough time. Time never changes. It is simply what you make time mean and how you use it.
Read MoreDo you want to understand why you feel so crappy or amazing in any given moment? Take a look at your thoughts (not just your conscious thoughts, but also your unconscious ones). Why is this so important? Because your feelings are why you do or don’t do anything in life. They drive all your actions and inactions.
Read MoreNot sure what to do? Ask your FUTURE self.
Our brain is always trying to seek answers from our PAST…from old experiences and things we know how to do well.
Sometimes this serves us and other times it doesn’t.
Read MoreI’ve found that starting my day off by focusing my brain on a positive question is a useful exercise in personal growth. It keeps me from jumping down the rabbit hole of negativity and overwhelm. The better the questions, the better the results I get.
Here are some examples to get started:
Read MoreWhat’s your attitude toward’s failure? Is it moving your forward or holding you back?
If you want to grow into the next best version of yourself, you’ll want to learn how to embrace failure.
How? By REDEFINING what failure means to you.
YOU get to decide what you are going to think and thus how you will feel when you don’t meet your expectations.
You can choose to beat yourself up or you can choose to think failure is an opportunity for LEARNING.
Thomas Edison famously said “I have not failed ten thousand times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those ten thousand ways will not work.”
Read MoreLearning how to process negative emotions is a skill worth investing in, as it will enable you to confidently navigate any challenge.
Read MoreIt’s not about asking people you don't know for help. Nor is it about making up reasons to speak to someone with the intent to be remembered. It is about listening and helping others.
This approach sure takes a lot of pressure off the plate, doesn’t it? 😁
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