Finding gold or flinging mud? Bring out their best at work.
It’s easy to get sidetracked when an emotionally charged situation at work brings out someone’s worst, right? It happens once and you find a way to reason your way out
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Do you know how to bring out the best in others?
All effective leaders do this. Loving parents find a way to do it even when kids are serving up their ugliest side. Even your spouse who wants to stay married
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Understand Your X Factor
You know those deep desires and urges within you that you couldn’t change even if you wanted to? I’m talking about those inner forces that seem to drive you from
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Guard Rails for Your “Just Right” Life
What if Goldilocks were a teenager, just learning to drive? What’s more, she’s your daughter. Like many of us whose kids are fast approaching driving age, you would eventually have
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Just Right: What Goldilocks Can Teach Us About Life
Goldilocks was onto something. We’ve been talking about course corrections in our lives and how they can be accomplished with the right use of some very sophisticated controls called inner
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Course Corrections in Life: Too far, or not far enough?
Have you ever taken your course corrections in life a little too far? I’m talking about those times where you see an alarming difference between where you’re headed and where
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Take Care of Your Decision Maker
Can you trust yourself to make good decisions? Talk about a loaded question! Ever been tempted to just let Magic 8 Ball make the call? Just say no… unless it’s
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Know When Your Inner Autopilot Needs a Course Correction
Last week, we were talking about getting more from your time by asking this simple question: Is there a difference between where you want to go and where you’re actually
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Want more from your time?
Want more from your time? For all of you with inbox OVERWHELM, workplace BURNOUT, or out-of-school DECISION FATIGUE, here’s a simple step you can take today to get more from
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Go for More than a “Paint-by-Number” Summer
School is out! And for those of you whose daily life instantly changes due to this fact, congratulations! The “Gauntlet of Exhausting Awesomeness” (i.e., recitals, graduations, tournaments, parties, etc.) is
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Your Emotions and the Magic Question
This week, we’re wrapping up the book study on becoming Intelligently Emotional. Even though the study may be coming to a close, the process (for most of us) is an
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Heard about the butterfly effect of emotional control?
Emotions are forces that drive us to either become our best or display our very worst. But how does that work? It turns out that it happens one emotional choice
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