Maybe you write down your goals, make them SMART, and still they don't work out the way you imagined. It's worse now, with uncertainty a daily dish. What can you do about it?
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In our roles as leaders of others and of ourselves, even as we long for conformity and unity, the most powerful tool to reach full potential lies in embracing, fully, our individuality, our idiosyncrasy. Some thoughts.
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Who else out there lives in the continual illusion of being extendable, infinitely? Another commitment? Sure, got that. More demands at work? Got that too. Well, until there's no more energy left to do anything. How do you get the energy right?
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As go-to methods to increase positivity and wellbeing, mindfulness and gratitude are the rage these days. Savoring is another one of these practices—simple, pleasant, and surprisingly effective.
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What does slipping out of a gluten-free diet have to do with curiosity, spite, and pleasure? And what does it reveal about choice and balance?
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Have you ever wondered why it's so much easier to settle into a yoga class when you do it with other people? Or walked into a room and felt immediately tense? Or avoided one person for another because of how you feel around them? Emotions are contagious. How does it work and why do we need to know about it?
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The hard part of any change is not knowing what to do, or even doing it. It's making it last. What if there were a method to help you uplevel continually? Here are some lessons learned.
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What's your relationship to time? Crunched? Dilated? Enemy or friend? And more important, is there any way to come to peace with the one-way flow of time divided into a mere 24 hours a day?
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Are you fed up with always having to fix yourself? Is Imposter Syndrome your middle name? And self-development your turn-to remedy for anything that doesn’t go the way you want it to? Pause. Breathe. What if the treasure were in who we are, not who we’d like to be? Then all that self-development would be icing on the cake.
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Amid constant change and upheaval, where can we anchor our hope? How can we find optimism and nourish it? And why should we be doing so intentionally? Read on for some keys on how optimism works.
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On an average day, how much of your attention do you own? Are you choosing where your focus is going? Or do you feel the day runs away from you? There’s so much getting in the way. How can we reclaim our attention in a world of sensory overload and non-stop videoconferencing?
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Based on the science, it’s no wonder Roman philosopher Marcus Tulles Cicero called gratitude the greatest of virtues, the parent of them all. It’s a win-win practice to reduce stress, be happier, and get along better with others. Today, it’s the sweetheart of high performance. So how do you do it?
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Have you ever been so in flow, so aligned with your strengths, that you didn’t even notice you had alienated your team? Or maybe, you’re exhausted from taking on so much because it’s your strong suit rather than because it’s your job. That’s called the Too Much of a Good Thing Effect—when what is ordinarily beneficial ends up causing harm when taken too far. Could balance come from swaying to the other end of the spectrum?
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As pandemic days blur into one another and we progressively lose our sense of time, could we benefit from allowing ourselves more procrastination? The word itself is harsh, filled with judgements of laziness and lack of productivity, effectiveness, follow through. What if we could hack procrastination so it served us? What if permission to procrastinate were all we needed to boost our productivity?
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What if the desire to be right were getting us into trouble? What if that feeling of being right were just that, an emotion, something to consider while not taking fully at face value? All kinds of wrong can happen when we get stuck on being right, and all kinds of solutions can surface when we loosen our grip. Read more about this leadership skill for complex times.
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In a world of very serious challenges, focusing on play seems incongruous. Or does it? Play not only releases stress, it improves brain function, cooperation, and relationships—all good skills for this day and age. What other hacks can we find in child’s play? Could it hold the keys to keeping our balance?
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The more the world as we know it seems to fall apart, the more focusing on things we actually can control brings peace of mind. Breathing is one of those daily acts that has a huge impact on stress reduction. So does sighing. Who’d of thought? Can sighing help us keep our balance?
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Have you ever felt hijacked by your emotions? Tried desperately to manage them, only to find stray anger or frustration bubbling up at the wrong time? With widespread hardship and anxiety on the rise, how much energy are we expending to numb feelings in order to continue to function. I can’t think of a better time to harness the energy of our emotions and integrate it into our thoughts and actions.
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As much as self-talk can be useful, how often is it just destructive? How often do we say things to ourselves that we’d never say to anyone else? What if it were possibly to get that inner critic playing on your side?
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Are you one to toss and turn all night long? Do you dream about sleeping a full night through? Or have you given up and convinced yourself sleep was a waste of time? Who needs it anyway? We need it more than anyone cares to admit. Anyone looking to uplevel in any area must attend to it. Here are some tips.
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