Category: <span>Success</span>

Category: Success

Self care, Self Improvement, Success

Apathy … Sooner or Later

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Sooner or later, Apathy strikes!  It may show up in our personal lives, and it may show up in our professional lives.  And, as we know, if we have a personal challenge it can, and most likely will, creep into our professional lives as well.  So, it is important to be self-aware of when you are having these feelings and dig into their root cause.  By definition, apathy is where we feel a lack of motivation, incentive, and enthusiasm, not just for work, but for many areas in our lives.  Typically, many factors contribute to these feelings, including circumstances and conditions around us.  When we succumb to some of the negative aspects of these circumstances, we tend to lose hope. Self awareness is key Here are some root causes of apathy, that may be contributing to your personal feelings: Stress Disappointment Difficulty in reaching personal and/or professional goals Loss of faith in yourself or others My research shows that if one does not identify the root cause and move through it, apathy can lead to deeper, more destructive feelings like guilt, shame and self-pity.  That is not where we want to go!  Apathy is a temporary state of being – …

Emotional Intelligence, Life Balance, Success

Frogs and Tomatoes Beat Procrastination

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How many of you spent time creating goals for 2016?  How many of your goals fell by the wayside  because of PROCRASTINATION and anxiety about not having enough time? Wouldn’t it be great to have a strategy to deal with procrastination and make some real progress, particularly on those goals you don’t really enjoy? Find Your Frogs and Eat Them! In his best-selling book “Eat That Frog!”, Brian Tracy talks about “Eating the Frog First”.  The “Frog” represents the task or goal you least want to tackle or get started on.  Here is strategy about how to tackle “the frogs” in your life.  He suggests that you Eat the Frog First to start your day. That way, it is off your plate, and you don’t have a “frog” sitting on your shoulder.  Combining this technique with the time-management technique below could be a winning combination for Getting Things Done, accomplishing your new goals in 2017, and actually overcoming procrastination. Fight Procrastination with Tomatoes The Pomodoro Technique was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s to help people break down tasks into manageable work units and stay on task to complete them. The core of the technique is the belief that …

Communication, Success

Use an Elephant to Improve Communication

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How many times have you been in a meeting and know there is something that needs to be said (everyone is feeling/sensing it) and no one is talking about it???  This leads to communication break downs within organizations, which can negatively impact productivity, effectiveness, relationships, success and fulfillment in the workplace. What can we do about it?  You got it! Talk about the Elephant in the Room! What’s the elephant? In case you haven’t heard the term before: “Elephant in the room” or ” Elephant in the living room ‘ is a metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss. Wikipedia definitions The term refers to a question, problem, solution, or controversial issue which is obvious to everyone who knows about the situation, but which is deliberately ignored because to do otherwise would cause great embarrassment, or trigger arguments or is simply taboo. The idiom can imply a value judgment that the issue ought to be discussed openly, or it can simply be an acknowledgment that the issue is there and not going to go away by itself. This idiomatic phrase is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged; and the people who might …

Self Improvement, Success

Chart Your Course for Change

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You can’t get where you’re going if you don’t know where that is! Every year, it is a great idea to chart your course for the upcoming year by creating a Vision Board. What is a Vision Board? A “visual” representation of what you want to create or what you want to accomplish. I recently read an article on the Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware. They are: I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard/much. I wish I had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish that I had let myself be happier. Take a good look at that list. I bet we all can relate to something on it, no matter what age we are currently! So, my question to you is: What are you going to do about it??? I am reading a leadership book, Boundaries for Leaders by Dr. Henry Cloud; he says that leaders need to create boundaries. The definition of boundary is: a structure that determines what will exist and what …

Self Improvement, Success

I Wish YOU Would Change!

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Can you believe it’s March already? Spring arrives this month, so we “spring forward.” Before April comes, there will be a bustling feeling of rebirth and renewal in the air. Consequently, we feel an urge to make a change in our own lives. Are you stuck in a rut? Spring is a great time to consider change in our lives, whether it’s personal or professional, mental or physical or spiritual, ourselves or our relationships. Too often, we get stuck in ruts and wish things would change, or try to change only to find that it’s way harder than we thought. This month, our blog theme is change, in order to greet spring and renew and rebuild ourselves! How do we know we need a change? Some of the thoughts that may run though our heads are: “I only wish (Name) would change and do (this – fill in the blank)!” “(This) just keeps on happening to me!” “Why can’t (name) behave or do (this)!” It’s not you — it’s me. It’s only natural when we’re not entirely happy with the status quo that we wish others would change around us and live up to our expectations.  Actually, the only person we have the power to change is OURSELVES!  Pay attention to how you are responding and …

Success

Feel the Fear – Be Powerful Beyond Measure!

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I was thinking about how “fear” can hold us back from so much, both personally and professionally.  Fear paralyzes us from taking action, from taking a risk, from love… In wonderful passage in A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, she writes: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love Please read this passage again, feel what touches you today.  There will be a moment today when you hesitate because of this four …

Communication, Leadership, Success

Communication is Key to a Leaders Success

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I was talking with a client today, and he shared with me the great success that is taking place within his company. He stated that the success is due to his constant attention to “Re-training, Re-immersion and Reemphasis” to the core Mission, Vision, Values and Purpose of his company. Not too long ago, he got all of his staff together to create a current Mission, Vision, Values and Purpose for the company. This created tremendous buy in from the entire staff. They felt a part of the company and felt valued by the company to be a part of this process. In addition, every day the company has a ten minute “Huddle Meeting” via the phone where the workload for the day is shared and discussed and one person is asked on the call (spontaneously) to discuss how the Mission of the company is in alignment with the work that will be done that day. Or, how the Purpose of the company will help to get the duties and tasks accomplished. Or, how the Vision of the company will help grow the company. At first, when he started this exercise, staff did not respond well…now they are prepared and state …