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Thoughts About Fear and Bravery
I have been thinking a lot about fear this week.š¬ During a recent conversation with my niece, while I was trying to help her assuage some of her own fear, I told her āI feel afraid A LOT of the time.ā āBut you always seem so confidentā, she replied. āHa! No, my love, but Iāve learned how to practice being…
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Cut Yourself Some Slack
Sometimes it is really hard to write these emails. Every time we turn around, we are faced with another problem, challenge or hardship at the collective level. It’s wonderful that we have technology that allows us to connect with folks and witness what’s happening everywhere in the world at every moment. And… It’s not always possible to hold all of…
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Bracing for Monday? This is for You.
Monday is upon us again, and if you find yourself bracing for the impact of another big busy week, then this gentle invitation is for you. When you approach your tasks from a quieter mental space, things that felt impossible just a moment ago suddenly feel easy, things that seemed like a huge forest fire suddenly feel like barely a…
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Self-Doubt Creeping in? Try This.ā¤ļø
In my work, themes emerge weekly, and sometimes daily. Self-doubt is, in a sense, always sort of a running undercurrent in personal/professional development work. It shows up in lots of different ways throughout a person’s life. For whatever reason, for the last couple of weeks, it has been the main topic of many conversations that I’ve had – with my…
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3 Tips for (Re)Claiming Your Energy
Ok, so…that weird-ass sluggish January is coming to an end, and many of us are starting to feel our brains and bodies ever-so-slowly coming back to operational mode. Yay! And, whew! Below I have shared three condensed tips to help you continue to reclaim your energy, as well as to help you nurture and protect it while you move forward…
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Stop Counting Your ‘Ums’
I donāt know who needs to hear this, but there is no moral problem or indication of personal failure if you say āumā when you speak. In my mind, there are two main reasons for building awareness of, and understanding your use of um and other filler words. The first is fairly straightforward to tactical: If there are too many,…
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Be Heard | 4 Steps to a More Confident Voice
So many people come to me saying things like āI feel like my voice is too thinā, or āI feel like people donāt hear me in meetingsā, or āI donāt sound as authoritative as Iād likeā, or āI donāt have enough power or depth when I sing.ā While there are many physical and emotional layers to each individual person that…
