Personal Leadership Series
Love the person you are now. Choose the person you want to be.
I am committed to providing thoughtful resources for your highest outcomes. The articles below are coaching resources that have supported my clients in cultivating more confidence, fulfillment and success.
How to Surrender: Coaching our Overachiever
I can laugh about it now, but I used to believe that attack mode was the best approach to any crisis. As a survivor by nature and an admitted overachiever, I was hugely skilled at being focused, applied and determined…
Break Free of Your Limiting Beliefs
You don’t have to look very far to see how limiting beliefs can hold you back from living the life of your dreams. Are you feeling stuck? Are you clear about your goals and dreams, but find you’re not making…
Creating Your Future When You Can’t See What’s Next
It’s a common refrain: “I know I need to change, but I’m stuck.” It is often followed by: “I see myself in that pattern, but I keep doing it anyway!” My heart is touched most by: “How do I create…
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Managing Chaos: Riding the Wave of the Pandemic
When everything is in chaos, what do you focus on? Your lack of control? Trying to control everyone else? Formula one race drivers know that if you look at the wall, you’ll hit it. The same applies to your coping…
Take a Risk, Achieve Your Goals
When we think of risk takers, we think of business innovators: Nikola Tesla, Jeff Bezos or Arianna Huffington. They were ready to take smart risks to create what mattered to them. Are you ready to take a risk to become…
4 Steps to Letting Go of Chronic Dissatisfaction
When you wake up every morning feeling like nothing is working, you may be suffering from chronic dissatisfaction. It’s the persistent whisper in the back of your mind that nothing feels quite right in your life: there’s not enough love,…
Design Your Life
When things get too busy and hectic, it’s natural to wonder if life has to be this way. Have you had this thought? Great! It means you’re slowing down. You’re noticing you’re alive — and you don’t want to waste…
Mastering Your Focus: A Key Factor for Success
It’s actually very simple: what you focus on grows. It doesn’t matter what your goal is, whether professional or personal, how well you focus is everything. Laser-sharp focus will make your efforts efficient, with just the right level of coordination…
Are You Burning out? How to Recognize and Recover
Burnout is on the rise. In 2015, The World Health Organization predicted that burnout would become a global pandemic within a decade. A 2016 study by Morar Consulting validated this warning when it showed ninety five percent “…of HR leaders said employee burnout is…
Getting Out From Under Toxic Leadership
Toxic leaders are masterful at making people feel sick and helpless. Public shaming, aggressive language and invalidation directly impact a person’s dignity and agency. This leaves people feeling diminished and powerless — afraid there is no good way out. As…
Self-worth
Self-worth is knowing that you are exactly right for this world, just as you are. There is no fixing because you are already whole. Difficulties are merely opportunities for growth and not evidence that you are flawed. And you feel…
Authentic Leadership: Master Yourself, Master Your Business
Every business leader I have worked with has worried that they were failing in some fundamental way. The most common complaint I have heard is that they would get drawn into details too often instead of doing what they do…
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Mindfulness: Get Started and Enhance Your Well-being
Our minds are naturally very busy, meandering all over the place and some time for no apparent reason. This ability is an asset in many ways. It allows us to be creative, flexible and imaginative which is just what we…
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Personal Leadership: Your Ticket to Transformation
Personal leadership is self-awareness, clarity about what motivates you and the ability to put it all into meaningful action. I think most of us would agree that this is an optimal state that we all yearn for. But sometimes it’s…
A Guide to Achieving Work-life Balance
Many of us rush in order to get everything done – at work and at home. We speed up when all we really want to do is slow down; we work harder when what we really want is freedom. For…
How to Change Your Life: Secrets from the Masters of Change
You may have noticed that changing your life can feel like reversing a runaway train. This is because it isn’t as simple as moving to a different city or changing a job. The process is really about transforming your inner…
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Possibility: Setting the Stage to Achieve a New Goal
I remember hearing as a child, “Don’t be a dreamer. You should have your feet firmly on the ground”—as if to say dreaming was a waste of time, a digression from what was realistic and important. Being firmly on the…
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Self-compassion after the Storm
Recent events have left me wondering how people are coping with the unprecedented number of storms hitting North America. The size and frequency of recent storms have impacted us on the inside every bit as much as they have on…
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”
–Warren Bennis
