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How to Appreciate Your Body and Love Yourself

Do you appreciate your body? The human body is truly a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing thing. Just think about all the great things it does for you daily: breathing, walking, digesting food, doing everything it can to keep you from getting sick, and so much more. When you appreciate your body, you acknowledge all the […]

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Facing Challenges: How to Appreciate and Learn From Them

Are you facing challenges in your life or your business right now? Most of us are, especially with everything we’ve been through this past year and half collectively. Facing challenges is never easy, and these days, there are some real challenges many of us face – at work, at home, in relationships, with money, with […]

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Get Back Up When You Fall Down: How to Overcome Failure

With all that has been going on over the past year or so, many of us have been “falling down” in so many areas of life and business. When you fall, do you get back up right away? When you fail, do you learn from it and take it as an opportunity to grow? Many […]

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Life is Not a Competition

Life is not a competition – although sometimes it can seem that way. Unfortunately, jealousy can get the best of us. Answer these questions honestly: How often do you find yourself getting jealous of other people? Does jealousy affect the way you perceive others or the way you perceive yourself? For much of my life, […]

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Appreciate the Simple Things

Do you take time in your life to appreciate the simple things? While this can be easier said than done, especially these days, sometimes it’s the simple things in life that bring the most happiness to us. It’s all about taking the time in life to appreciate this stuff. How I Learned How to Appreciate […]

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The Importance of Flexibility

Flexibility can help improve every aspect of your life – your work, relationships, health, family, creativity, success, and more. How flexible are you? For me, it often depends on my mood, how much fear or resistance I have about something, how attached I am to a particular outcome, and various other factors. The Importance of […]

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Distract Yourself in Healthy Ways

With all that is going on in our lives and in the world around us, especially these days, it is understandable that many of us are looking for ways to distract ourselves. As an executive coach and consultant, I work with clients who deal with this all the time, particularly right now. Every day we […]

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Trust is Granted Not Earned

To understand how trust works, it’s important to remember that trust is granted, not earned. Trust allows leaders, employees, relationships, and organizations to flourish and grow. It is fundamental to most everything in life. Lack of trust can lead to damaging relationships and a hostile environment. It creates stress and lowers energy. When there is […]

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Why Empathy is Important: How to Become More Empathetic

As an executive coach and consultant, my clients often ask me why empathy is so important. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines empathy as: The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience […]

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The Secret to Reaching Across the Political Aisle

We find ourselves in a precarious moment politically here in the United States right now.  In the midst of a global pandemic, a new Presidential administration, a pending impeachment trial, calls for both accountability and unity, and so much more. The intense divisiveness that has built up in our country in recent weeks, months, and […]

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