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Time, the equal opportunity employer

It’s the one thing that every single one of us has exactly the same. It’s our perspective of time that differs. You can choose to spend two hours binging Netflix or you can choose to spend two hours creating a blog post to share your knowledge with your network. I …

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What to do when friends don’t make an effort

How many times do you knock on the door of a friend’s house before leaving when they don’t answer? Two times? Three? Some friendships are a lot like knocking on a door that never gets answered. You want your friends to open the door, welcome you with a wonderful embrace, …

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Methods to Manage Anger

Have you ever watched a pot of water boil? As the flame heats the stainless steel base, tiny pockets of air begin to form, slowly floating to the surface, longing to escape, to breathe, and to be seen and heard. As the heat increases, so does the size of the …

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The Micro-Macro View of Life: How to Manage Life Tax

Have you ever used one of those two-sided mirrors? On one side there is the normal reflection, and on the other is the ultra-zoomed-in, micro, super up-close-and-way-too-personal view of all the pores, hairs, and grossity-gross stuff. In this view, it’s easy to get trapped in the ugly. There is wayyyy …

The Worst Advice to Give Female Leaders: Grow a pair

She spent so much time consumed by what other people thought of her that it never occurred to her that she could spend that mental bandwidth on learning what she thought of herself instead. She sought acceptance from what others said about her. She believed in her heart that her …

How to give negative feedback

Do you work with someone that does things that drive you absolutely crazy? They’re a nice person but their actions just aren’t conducive to productive work. Did you know – and thanks to Brené Brown for her Dare to Lead inspiration – that it is actually super unkind to not give that person …

We all have Emotional Intelligence

Today, upon hearing about my work, a person commented, “Oh, my brother doesn’t have any emotional intelligence.” Ah, yeah. Nah. He does. It’s a myth that we either have or don’t have emotional intelligence. We all have emotional intelligence. EQ is a set of emotional and social skills that you …

The 6Ps: A tool to get anything done!

A cupcake doesn’t make itself. It requires planning. There is a recipe, ingredients, preparations in the form of measuring, melting, mixing, heating of the oven… There’s nothing worse than getting mid-bake and discovering you don’t have enough of a key ingredient. You didn’t plan adequately and now you either need …