Posts Tagged ‘#successtips’
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…
Read MoreThe Shocking Truth: Being An Overachiever Will Hurt Your Career
Article Originally Published on Forbes I’m not sure when it all started. From the time I can remember, I put my toys away neatly while other children played with reckless abandon. I was shy, quiet, loved to build with Legos and organizing things. One day I grew up, lost the shyness, became a professional young…
Read More5 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…
Read More4 Proven Fundamentals to Overcome Our Obsession with Failure
What makes successful people excel in almost every aspect of their life? What’s the secret? You know what I’m talking about. Some call it luck. These achievers seem to be able to accomplish amazing things in life and overcome tremendous obstacles. They don’t appear to know what failure is! Our society is consumed with an…
Read MoreHow to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece
How to Make Every Day Your Masterpiece Ever wonder how some successful people are able to accomplish so much? Some appear to be mysteriously blessed with time to suit their purposes while the rest of us are gasping for breath just trying to get through the day. There are no mysteries to be solved. No…
Read More3 Steps to Tackle Endless Task Lists: From ‘To Do’ to DONE
How’s that ‘To Do’ List working for you? If you are like me: The List was a monster that seemed to only grow! It felt like no matter what I accomplished, the ‘To Do’ List didn’t seem any shorter. At the end of each work day I would feel defeated and frustrated without a sense…
Read MoreThree 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…
Read MoreHoliday Survival Kit – How to Keep Sanity and Perspective
Is it just me or did life perform some strange time-warp between Thanksgiving and Christmas? I’ll be lucky to get my tree up before Dec. 25th! Life moves incredibly fast these days and with the economic bumps and crazy politics our society has experienced, we may not always feel like we have enough or that…
Read MoreHiring Slump in the Holiday Season? Think Again.
When the Christmas trees hit the shelves in the local home improvement store and all the clothing outlet carries is winter woolies, we automatically think that the hiring season is over – bring on the turkey, ham, and extra helping of pie! In actuality, the Holiday Season is exactly the time to polish the resume,…
Read MoreBreaking 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…
Read MoreUnplug 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…
Read MoreKindness 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…
Read MoreInsights into Leadership
As usual, John Maxwell has so much to say of value and his last Maximum Impact Mentoring session wasn’t any less than expected. I have personally gained invaluable knowledge and insights into leadership since I have begun the journey of Leadership Coaching Certification. My introduction to John Maxwell was through a leadership book given by my…
Read MoreThe Power of Networking at Work
If you are like I was, you probably believe that – by coming to work, doing a great job, and being an accountable strong member of your team is what it’s all about. Better yet: many think that showing up early, working harder than anyone else, and staying late is a guarantee for some sort…
Read MoreMaximize Productivity in 1 Step
The internet is full of “5 Steps to Success” and “10 Things to be More Productive” articles … a few of which I wrote. 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…
Read More4 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…
Read MoreGive Up to Go Up: 4 Steps to Success
“If you want to live a life of significance, you will have to give up some things. The pathways of possibility is filled with trade-offs.” – John Maxwell I will admit that this is probably one of the most difficult success principles for me to swallow. I’m the Queen of Over-Achievement! I want to do…
Read MoreSuccess Story or Social Pressure?
Ever find yourself thinking “I should really do this …” but you aren’t thrilled about it? You aren’t alone: it’s called a feeling of obligation often coupled with the word: Should – which is one of my most despised words. I found myself using ‘should’ frequently when thinking about the next steps I should take…
Read MoreComplicating Continuous Improvement
Does the continuous improvement industry need to practice more of what we preach: do we need to lean out our Lean process and reduce our Six Sigma variations? Humans, by nature, tend to over-process the simple into complexities that are not strictly necessary. We change agents are acutely aware of this as we busily go…
Read MoreBreak the Success Barriers
Unfortunately not everything about the climb to success is fun. That may not come as a surprise, but what might interest you is just how few individuals can discipline themselves to do what makes them uncomfortable and even a little scared. Taking risks and viewing challenges as opportunities are not common traits in the human…
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