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Why You Should Choose Your Challenges in 2020
Life can be hard. Whether we like it or not, life gives us difficulties to overcome (some more than others). Turns out, we need challenges in order to grow. If there’s no challenge, there’s little to no growth. Challenge, mixed with awareness, willingness, and courage...
What Humbling Hikes Can Teach Us About How To Deal With Difficult Situations
In my last post, I shared about a hugely humbling hike that I inadvertently ended up on during my first-ever solo backcountry trip in June 2019. In the post (if you haven’t read it, click here), I shared the secret ingredient I unintentionally found for dealing with...
Handling Negative Emotions In A Way That’s Good For You And Your Team
It’s not a matter of if you will get to a breaking point with frustrating people and situations. It’s a matter of when. Everyone winds up with their back against the wall, frustrated and overwhelmed, at various points in their life and work. We all need a strategy...
How To Get Your Team To Give Their Best
Increasing the sustainability, productivity, and engagement of your team Thousands of hikers take to the Appalachian Trail (AT) every year, traveling 2,190 miles from Georgia to Maine. For some, giving their best means simply going out on the trail for a day,...
The Power of Praise: The Reason To Thank Your Team This Holiday Season
Get Your Team To Perform Better, Through Praise Who doesn’t stand a little taller, or perform better, when someone praises their good work? Most people do. So, why don’t more leaders use praise throughout the year? Could it be that we, as leaders of teams and...
How One Leader Is Helping Women Strengthen Their Voice And Get Ahead
In January of 2017, Casey graduated from college and took a part-time assistant coaching job at a local university. Having just helped her swim team make it to the championships after an eight-year lull, Casey was excited to earn a paycheck doing the work she loved...
Overcoming Perfectionism: How To Stop Holding Yourself Back
Why You Don’t Need To Be Excellent From The Start Striving for high standards of excellence is great in all areas of life. The challenge comes when you think you need to be excellent from the start. In fact, such thinking leads to perfectionism, and can easily rob you...
Are You Heeding The Warning Signs?
Wanting to Do What I Wanted To Do It was 1pm when I finally arrived at the beach in Lewes, Delaware. I had driven three hours, checked into my AirB&B, and was ready for a swim in the rejuvenating salt of the ocean. As I popped my trunk to get my swim bag, I heard...
4 Nights in The Backcountry: What The Appalachian Trail Taught Me
I recently spent 4 nights on the Appalachian Trail. For those who don’t know, this is a journey along the east coast that goes from Georgia to Maine. Some people take 4-6 months to walk the entire trail in one shot, while others do pieces and portions of it over...
What I Wish I Knew When I Was New To The Workforce
Most people who are new in the workforce don't know how they come across. This has been true for as far back as "the office" has been a thing. What I wish I knew was how to use language differently, and how to ask for help. Instead, I found a world that seemed...
Retaining Good People: 4 Key Steps
Trouble Retaining Good People On Your Teams Or In Your Company? Here are 4 key steps to fixing the issue (as well as other ways of retaining your top talent). Traditional advice from sources like the Wall Street Journal for how to retain employees and top talent...
Which is more important? Theory or Practice
When you want to do anything in life, there's a good chance in today's day and age that someone has made a YouTube video or written a tutorial about how to do it. There is no shortage of available information for us to digest today. In fact, we have so much...
Thankful For a Root Canal? The Power of Positive Thinking
In 2017, I had to have a root canal on tooth number eighteen (back, bottom, left side). Considering the number of procedures, (three… on the same tooth, yes, three.) I will remember the tooth number forever. Rather than get into the details, let me just say that each...
Leveraging LinkedIn Relationships? Don’t Make This Mistake
I got an unexpected message on LinkedIn. A friend of a friend was using a mutual - and close - friend, Shaun, as leverage to connect - potentially as a way to get clients from LinkedIn. I was happy to carve out time for a phone call. Anything for Shaun. Did he care...
Stop Apologizing. Here’s Why
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/300055 - why you should stop apologizing, according to science Ever been in an instructional session (e.g. spin, spanish, yoga, or a business meeting), and found yourself in front of someone who just kept apologizing? Their notes...
Self-Awareness Leads To Emotional Intelligence: A 1:37PM Realization
Why is self awareness important? As a business leader you are often told to have emotional intelligence. But what does it mean to have emotional intelligence or to be emotionally intelligent? It may seem counter-intuitive, but emotional intelligence comes from a place...
The Real Value of Giving Feedback
Growth is in our DNA. We want to improve, get better results, and see the progress we have made. The challenge (and opportunity) is that we often lack helpful (and healthy) mirrors to offer us perspective on our own growth. While self-reflection is essential to...
From Self-Talk to Self-Awareness: 16 Ways To Grow
At home, getting ready for a day at the Korean Spa (a well-priced cultural experience I recommend for anyone who’s okay with different), irritation mounted as every sip Yvette took from her coffee cup grew louder in my ear. “Stop sipping your coffee so loud,” I said,...