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Who Are You Really? Your Job Is Not Your Personal Identity!

Who Am I? Man has been asking the personal identity question since the dawn of time. And the older one gets the more the question gets asked. My definition is the sum total of my thoughts, emotions and actions. These make up my soul or my being. So our journey to answering the “Who am […]

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How To Be At Peace. It Begins With A Healthy Dose Of Reality!

How To Be At Peace With Yourself What is about peace that we really seek? It is probably different for all of us. In all cases it involves current state and our future. Your default future is the one that will occur with no intervention or change. “What got you here won’t get you there.” […]

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Self Doubt: Name The Things That Rule You

How To Be Confident Self doubt keeps us from realizing our potential. Self doubt has many names: interference, inner-critic, inner judge, shadow are but a few examples. We will find the origin of doubt in our upbringing: As you went through each childhood stage of growth and development with your reality tested by negative messages […]

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Make the Most of Your Holiday Time Off

What Is PTO? Short answer. Paid time off. Sad to say, only 14% of managers will truly get Holiday time off. The remaining 86% will be tethered to their email or cell phone. They do this out of the mistaken belief that they are producing something better for the culture of the company. How will […]

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What is Life Coaching Designed to Achieve?

What is life coaching designed to achieve? This is another one of those questions that could be answered 100 different ways. The response is more about process than it is about result. Let’s begin with a brief (very brief) comparison of a therapist job description versus a life coach. Life coaching is designed to achieve: […]

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Trust Trickles Up: The Art of Hiring and Keeping Your Best Employees

How To Hire Employees And Keep Them Harvard Business Review published, Employees Who Trust Their Managers Are More Likely to Trust Their CEOs. If you are responsible for hiring and retaining employees you should pay close attention. The article drew on the notion of trust transfer because junior employees interact much more with their immediate […]

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Life Plan: Part 2. Accept Your Current Reality

Making a careful review of one’s past is the first step in the development of a Life Plan. The next step is to assess your current reality. The final step is to create a vision and strategy to achieve your dreams, which will be published in the next few weeks. Part Two: Assess Your Reality […]

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Why Your Resolutions Failed! Part 4. Know What is Most Important

By now most of you have ditched your New Year’s Resolutions. At least, statistically this is true: 88% of all resolutions fail. The article referenced in this link gives you an out by blaming your brain on your inability to break habits. This may be true but we can take responsibility. But, if we ask how […]

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Why Your Resolutions Failed? Part 3. Look At Your Core Values!

One reason our resolutions fail is we continue to live inconsistently with our core values. Are you living consistently with your core values? Do you believe your usefulness determines your success? How are the answers to these two questions in harmony with one another? How are your core values determined? There are number of […]

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