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Make Your 2018 Resolutions Stick. Address Your Self Awareness

What Is Your New Year Resolution? Give yourself the gift of self awareness. I’m usually a pretty healthy guy. I measure my caloric intake, exercise regularly and keep a pretty disciplined schedule. But I let loose last night (December 31, 2017). Now I didn’t over drink but I did eat things I don’t normally allow […]

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How To Increse Your Emotional Intelligence: 360 Feedback

360 Degree Feedback Emotional Intelligence growth is possible and the fastest way is to use 360 feedback. This feedback mechanism gains insight from people all around you: boss, peers and subordinates as well as self assessment. 360 feedback rarely works when executives are more concerned with their ego than their growth. These executives get the […]

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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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How Much Does A Professional Life Coach Cost?

How Much Does A life Coach Cost? To answer this question I’d like for you to read this post through the lens of the following two idioms: 1. A thing is worth what someone will pay for it 2. You get what you pay for I worked for Papa John’s International as a Vice President late in […]

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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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Want Joy? Thank Someone Special Today

As Karen and I sat at the kitchen table a few days following 911, we pondered all we might learn from this horrific event. We decided to make a list of the things we were thankful for. On my list was my Fifth Grade Teacher, Mr. Trantum. My workbook describes how fond I am of him. […]

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Success With Your New Year’s Resolutions

Great news – 1 in 8 New Year’s Resolutions work out! The bad news: 88% of all resolutions end in failure. Most of us assume that self-control is largely a character issue, and that we would follow through on our New Year’s resolutions if only we had a bit more discipline. But this research suggests […]

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