3 Questions to answer before someone can be influenced by you

As leaders, we’re challenged to hone in on our effectiveness with the people we lead. Leading requires you to have influence over others. I’d like to think that you’re positively influencing others, but we all know there are people who are in positions of leadership that I personally would not …

Don’t let your day run you

Does your day run you? Do things just pop out of nowhere and take over whatever is listed for your to-dos for the day? Can you say no to them or do they suddenly become the priority? My favourite response when I want to say no to someone’s request and …

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Be Active, not Busy

There is one common answer to the question: How have you been? And it says nothing about how you actually are. Most answer, “Great, I’ve been really busy.” As though busy is a good thing. It’s not. Busy shuts down the conversation. Busy has negative connotations. Busy suggests you don’t …

The number one question to start the day successful

I said to one of my wonderful recruiters this morning that I often feel like I am a “problem-seeker” not just a problem-solver. That is not to say that I actively create problems. No. Rather, I have a knack for seeing what isn’t working as efficiently as it could, things that …

How completing puzzles helps your growth mindset

One of the only things we’re guaranteed is impermanence. We’re guaranteed that nothing will ever be the same, remain as it is and as we’d like it to be. Many people fear the idea of this. I love it. I love that we can’t rely on anything to remain the …

A Tool to Rewire Your Brain: Anytime I, Experience

Anytime we look upon a magazine cover, – insert any advertising example – what we think and feel about ourselves is being controlled by the ideal this cover portrays. It isn’t ideal. Ever. Take back control of your mind with this tool that rewires your brain on a neurological, unconscious …

Use Perceptual Readiness to Create Powerful Goals

Goals are typically future-orientated, something to aspire and work towards. From the book, ‘Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do’, by John Bargh, I’m learning that we make micro-goals all the time. These micro-goals affect our present-time decision-making and impact future events without our conscious awareness. …

Light, Shadow and Dark Values that Guide my Life

On her Spotify exclusive podcast, Dare to Lead, Brene Brown discusses with the entrepreneurial professor and author, Jim Collins about values. He introduced to me the concept of a shadow value and defined his shadow value as the freedom to choose how he spends his time. This value resides beneath …

How the CliftonStrengths Profile Gave Me Personal Excellence

At the end of 2015, I closed my first business to have my son. After six months of maternity leave, I felt lost and directionless. Full-time mothering wasn’t something I could do, I needed to use my brain for something more than learning how to activate nuts and brew kombucha. …