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Overcoming Procrastination
Last week I shared one of my favorite techniques for overcoming overwhelm. If you tried the blank sheet of paper exercise, hopefully, you emerged with the realization that you have fewer truly critical tasks than you thought, and you have a short list of A priority tasks stack ranked in the order you should tackle them.…
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Overcoming Overwhelm
In my coaching, I hear “I’m feeling overwhelmed” a lot. In my past roles, I said “I’m feeling overwhelmed” a lot myself. Today I want to walk you through my go-to technique to overcome this overwhelmed feeling. Stressed vs. Overwhelmed This feeling of overwhelm can stem from any number of root causes, but here’s the…
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Father’s Day Gratitude
Now don’t act surprised. If you read my Mother’s Day post, you knew this one was coming. This Sunday is Father’s Day, a time to practice gratitude and celebrate the fathers and father figures that have touched our lives. My Father’s Influence In my Mother’s Day post, I shared an excerpt from a life story exercise…
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Running with the Bunnies
I dedicated my running in May to the Love in Action Challenge, honoring the memory of Jack Grubbs by raising money for his favorite charity, SHADE, to build a new cafeteria for their school. If you’d like to contribute, please visit my donations page. In today’s post, I’ll share some highlights from the month. If you’re looking for life…
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How Are You?
When someone asks you, “How are you?” how do you respond? For many years I would answer this question on auto-pilot. I was either “Fine,” “Busy,” or “Crazy-busy.” The phrase had simply become another way of saying hello. Once I became aware of my automatic response, I began to take the question more seriously. I…
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The Rider and the Elephant
This week’s post continues the theme of Influencing for Change which I started last week when I discussed how to strengthen your connections. Today I want to share a few insights from an excellent book on the topic, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by brothers Chip and Dan Heath. I was gifted this book…
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