4 Invaluable Insights How to Pivot into Lasting Leadership

Challenging Assumptions and Inspiring Powerful Positive Transformations I have personally gained invaluable insights how to pivot into lasting leadership through the journey and achievement of my Leadership Coaching Certification. My introduction to leadership principles was in a book by John Maxwell given by my mentor over 10 years ago. Since that time my life began…

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How to Escape Mediocrity by Changing How You Think

How to Ditch Lack-Mindedness & Carve Your Own Path with Success Thinking We are a culture of comparison and a culture of acquisition. We constantly seek the newest, best rated, most popular and ‘cool’ things in life. We have expectations to meet. Expectations from ourselves, our parents and our friends. We think by meeting these…

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Mom’s Top 7 Essentials for Significant Success

Mothers always know best! My mother set the stage in early childhood to ensure that I had the essentials for significant success in my life. Not only did she give me a safe environment to grow into the person I am today, my mother led by example. All parents are leaders of their children –…

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How To Go From Powerless to Powerful with Intentional Impact

How To Go From Powerless to Powerful with Intentional Impact Core Article Originally Published on Forbes We keep throwing this word around called ‘impact’. Can you go from powerless to powerful? Do you know what your impact is and how would you define, discover, understand or leverage it? It’s like the way my husband describes calories:…

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How to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece

How to Live a Life of Significance: Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Article Originally Published on Forbes John Maxwell says “If you want to live a life of significance, you will have to give up some things. The pathway of possibility is filled with trade-offs.” I will admit that this is probably one of the most difficult…

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How to Get What Most Professionals Want

How to Get What Most Professionals Want Most professionals want a fulfilling career. The truth is: few will actually find one. It’s no big secret about what most professionals want but there are massive misunderstandings in how to achieve a fulfilling career. The reason most professionals will not ‘find’ a fulfilling career is because these…

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Life Lessons are Learned Best from Others

Life Lessons are Learned Best from Others I had a young mentee once say to me: “What can I learn from a mentor that I can’t learn from Google?” I was stunned and then saddened. The ability to learn life lessons from others is a valuable trait to cultivate. Not only do you shorten your…

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5 Authentic Ways for Women to Lead Impactful Careers

Why Women? From a career coach’s perspective, my clients that struggle the most with the concept of defining personal achievement are women. It’s not because these ladies aren’t competent, savvy professionals. This phenomenon can be attributed to cultural brainwashing. Quite simply put: we women aren’t necessarily taught to excel in the business world! There are many ways…

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The Art of Being in the Moment and Letting Go of “Should”

The Art of Being in the Moment and Letting Go of “Should” I realized one day that I was wasting precious time agonizing over something I felt I ‘should’ do but wasn’t for reasons that made perfect logical sense. Yet, there I was, not living in the moment and not appreciating the NOW. I was…

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How to Achieve 25% More Free Time by Doing 1 Thing

The internet is full of advice on how to maximize your personal productivity and get more free time. With a wealth of information at our fingertips and zillions of articles about how to improve one’s lifestyle, the question is: why aren’t these tips helping? The thing is; if you are like most people: short on…

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5 Smart Steps to Investing in Self Development

The other day I was taking time to read and reflect as a part of my own personal development plan and it struck me how important this time is. Investing in self development wisely is critical to your growth, well being, goal-focus, and regaining energy that you give out every day. If you don’t invest in…

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Three Keys to a New Year and a New You

“I will be so glad for the New Year – 2016 has been terrible!” a friend said to me a couple weeks ago. Similar feelings on the subject have been echoed in my ears by clients, colleagues, and posts all over social media since before September! I will have to agree that 2016 has been challenging…

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Breaking Out of the Box – 6 Steps to Career Bliss

So many Americans suffer from mid-career crisis or professional stagnation. If I had a dollar for every time I heard: “I’ve been doing the same job for years, but I don’t really like what I do” I would be writing this from a nice little private island. It’s a scary world out there and many of…

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Post-Election Hangover – 4 Ways to Cope

Got the post-election hangover blues? As the political frenzy churns itself out while almost every post on social media is about the election and over half of America suffers from shock and awe in the feeling that maybe their vote really didn’t count… there is hope. Nope, the popular vote doesn’t necessarily elect Presidents, but…

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Unplug from Toxic – How to Survive Negative Quicksand

How to Survive Negative Quicksand Toxic Noise isn’t just the recent Presidential election and it doesn’t just come from your television or spew forth from your radio. We are profoundly impacted by all varieties of inputs in our lives and they, in turn, can alter our actions, our emotions, our perspective, and our attitude – even…

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Kindness Might Be the Key to Success

Historically kindness is often considered a weakness in the world of business. We don’t want to subdue the fire and quench the passion that drives us to achieve, be successful, and move up the ladder of the corporate world. We can’t be successful by rolling over, taking a back seat, and being non-confrontational. When we think…

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No Signal, No Worries – Control Freak to Clarity

No signal, no worries – and a few lessons learned on vacation without cell signal. I learned that I was an obsessive weather app checker. For some, it’s Facebook, Twitter, or even Pinterest. For me: it’s the weather. Upon reflection, this makes sense for an outdoorsy type with hobbies that include hiking and cycling. After…

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4 Links Between a Massive Sinkhole and Self Recharging

A Sinkhole and Self Recharging – an Unlikely Connection? As we look back on the years of 2015 and 2016 in Texas, it may be forever known as the Perpetual Flood Years. As a friend of mine stated: “We’ve had three 100-year floods in 2 years!” Just in the month of May last year: Texas…

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