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More or Less
Recently, I caught up with a friend who is approaching that magical age of 50. Somewhere around this age, give or take 5-10 years, so many of us go through that phase we’ve unfortunately labeled a “midlife crisis.” I much prefer to think of this phase as a midlife awakening. The conversation went as these…
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Same Coach, Wider Door
If you have followed my blog for a while, you may be noticing a new pattern. Some of you have called it out to me directly. I’m talking less about leadership and more about life. I see the pattern. It’s not a deliberate, premeditated choice on my part. It’s simply the way the wind is…
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Fiercely Loyal
Throughout my life, I’ve described myself as fiercely loyal. Historically, I’d say that’s an aspect of my personal brand. Loyalty never made the list when I did a values exercise, but I identified with it and boasted about it. Now, that concept of loyalty gives me great pause. While I don’t want to throw the…
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Zones of Engagement
Engagement. It’s the holy grail of employee performance. When our employees are highly engaged, they do their best work. They are in flow. They love their work, their colleagues, and their clients. When employees are disengaged, they may do the bare minimum. Their work is below what they are capable of. They may be looking…
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Acknowledge. Honour. Release.
The past few months have been filled with new gifts of awareness. The primary catalyst was my meditation retreat in December. It formed a wave of new awareness, arguably a tsunami of awareness, that I’ve been tumbling around in ever since. It seems to me that, as children, we enter this world as lumps of…
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