Imagine you’re pregnant. Imagine you’re pregnant with triplets. Imagine you’re considered a high-risk pregnancy and you’re in the hospital and you’ve just discovered that your regular doctor isn’t available and you’re giving birth six weeks early. You’re about to give birth with a … [Read more...] about Massaging almonds – a critical skill for conflict resolution, communication, teaching, and more
Daily life can often be a massive challenge. From overloaded to-do lists to crunched time, and from feeling like we’re being pulled in every direction to the dizzyingly fast pace of life – it’s enough to make even the most patient person have a meltdown (or multiple meltdowns). Added to … [Read more...] about Easy, peasy tech tools to save your sanity at work and at home
“The average professional spends 28% of the work day reading and answering email, according to a McKinsey analysis. …. that amounts to a staggering 2.6 hours spent and 120 messages received per day” (How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day, by Matt Plummer, HBR). Enter email overload and … [Read more...] about Five tips for handling your email overload and overwhelm
The TED talk “Ten ways to have a better conversation” by Celeste Headlee was suggested to me by my awesome sister so, of course, I dove right into it. I wanted to share the simple, effective steps with you. “Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, … [Read more...] about Ten ways to have a better conversation by Celeste Headlee
You know that insidious little voice in your head? I call it your ‘brain ears.’ It’s the voice that picks up on the slightest whiff of negativity and convinces you you’re a total mess. It’s the voice that can keep you up until the wee hours with nasty, negative thoughts. The one that … [Read more...] about Five tips for banishing that critical inner voice of yours
What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘feedback?’ Whether we’re on the giving or receiving end of feedback, most of us get a pit of dread in our stomachs, with a million butterflies threatening to fly up our throats and suffocate us. Or maybe you’re saying to yourself that you … [Read more...] about The surprising skill you didn’t know you needed when giving feedback
I was teaching a workshop on conflict resolution and I was at the part where we talked about Attitude Adjustment. Not that AA. Rather an attitude adjustment. It was part of my Learning and Development Roundtable - Resolve conflict with confidence and clarity using these six simple … [Read more...] about Is it time for Attitude Adjustment? (It’s not what you think) | Training of Trainers
Can you relate to any of these maelstrom-like scenarios in your head? If you have something that involves a series of steps and is something you do online, you can easily have your own personal scribe for auto-generating step-by-step guides for free. It’s so easy you’re going to fall over … [Read more...] about Voila! Your personal Scribe for auto-generating step-by-step guides for free
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The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
