In order to achieve anything you have to believe it first, and start becoming aware of your limiting beliefs. There are 3 phases of belief. impossiblepossibleprobable Old beliefs don’t flip to new beliefs by themselves. It takes finding a believable thought, deciding how you want to feel ahead of time about that thought, and practicing the thought multiple times a day. Start by…
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Hope is for suckers. Action is what moves you forward. I hope I get the job. Hope I’m up for the promotion. I hope I get a raise. The feeling of hope is pretty useless. Hope doesn’t serve you. It doesn’t require action Hope keeps us in our thoughts about our professional circumstances – waiting for something…
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So often when I ask my clients how they want to feel, they look at me like I’m crazy and they don’t know what to say. How often do people asking you directly about your feelings, after all? They are experts at thinking. They are newbies at feeling. Paying attention to how you feel means that at…
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Don’t take the bait A few years ago I created the necklace above out of a fishing lure. I was struggling with the complexity of the corporate environment and I found that I was often getting triggered by circumstances. Sometimes I didn’t handle the situation well, and my reaction ended up creating more drama than the original…
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I thought I was settling in my career. Then I realized I just had a lot of unproductive and negative thinking. One big thought error loop. Signs I had a thought error loop of negative thinking: ✔️I was focusing more on the time and energy I invested in an endeavor rather than the appreciation for the experience…
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The Art of Failure. We are taught to seek success but we are not taught how to process failure. Failure is not spoken about in advance. It’s denied. Unacceptable. We tend to own failure in a different way. When we fail, we become ‘less than’, we may feel shame, or lose confidence. Instead of looking at what failed…
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The struggle bus. I used to struggle with the hustle. I used to find ways to MAKE it HAPPEN. It was exhausting. My relationships were strained. I was told I was controlling and bossy. It was all true. And none of it was working for me. I had the title, the awards, the accomplished resume. But I…
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One of the best tools you can use to achieve more at work is to plan how you want to feel while achieving your goal. Wait. Before you stop reading and think this is too woo-woo, hold on and hear me out. Paying attention to how you feel means that at any time you can change the…
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I understand we are in extraordinary times. Have you set extraordinary goals? The process for setting and achieving goals was always about the objective and the key result. Coming from corporate it was known as an OKR. This concept was created by John Doer of Google fame in his book Measure what Matters and while it’s an…
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Holiday weekends. The extra day off… the long weekend of fun, a few days away to explore a nearby city, or experience the Americana of a beachside town. Sounds delightful, right? I rarely got to feel the delight. I lived my life in day counts. For me, it was always a countdown between today and my next…
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