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If you were to write a story about your 2018, what would it include? What have your triumphs and successes been? What have your struggles and challenges been, and how have you overcome them this year? What remains a challenge for you to overcome? What regrets and...

Annual strategic planning. Milestone birthdays. Anniversaries. Vacations. Finding the “next” chapter in your life and career. Maybe it seems like a random collection of words. But, if you think about it, each represents people-centered, date specific events. And in...

We often hear the question, "how do I change". It's a perennial question, one that we all struggle with from time to time. Here's a change process that we believe in and we practice personally. It was developed by our Enneagram friends, Dr. David Daniels, and Terry...

If you train yourself to look you’ll find great ideas are all around. The practice of generating ideas is a skill that can be crafted. The challenge is to open up, break out of routine patterns and typical ways of seeing things, being curious and (re)kindle the spark....

Listening, like many other elements of communication, can be developed through practice, or lost if not used regularly. Good listeners focus on what they hear. They pause, think about what they've heard, before responding. In today’s “act now” world it can sometimes...

Values guide our decision making, direct our actions and reflect what is important to us. The values we live by are demonstrated in our daily life through what we focus on, how we act towards others, what we say and what we do. DEFINING OUR PERSONAL VALUES IS AN...

Back to school signals a return to those familiar weekday routines for most of us. Touch base with anyone who has K-12th grade school-aged kids at this time of year and you'll likely find the first few weeks in September are spent focusing on mastering the "balancing...

Poof. Just like that, Labor Day is over and summer 2018 “left the building.” Wait a minute. Let’s not say “goodbye” so quickly. You still have ample time to savor those last sweet drops of summertime before autumn officially arrives later this month. Go ahead, enjoy...

We are curious … Did you take us up on our digital detox challenge? Did you unplug and step away from engaging in a 24/7 digital lifestyle for at least one day, last week? Or did you make it a tech free weekend challenge and extend the challenge to your family and...

Can you recall the last time you powered down your computer AND smart phone and stepped away from all screens to just rest, relax and enjoy real life interactions with live people such as your family and friends? Unplugging, or living life without computer related...

Great News! We absolutely have the ability to shift our attention...and the caveat is provided we are aware and awake enough and have a decent level of self-observation skills to know where our attention is at any given moment. And I can hear the refrain, how can I be...

I just celebrated a milestone birthday, and it’s making me reflect on my life so far. This month’s topic is resilience, and looking back on my life, I can see moments that I now know demonstrated resilience although at the time I probably would have said I was just...

Most of us know one. That person—friend, family member, colleague or leader—who continues to emerge stronger and wiser after being “knocked down” by life. Time and again, we see them grow exponentially from their setbacks. We marvel at how they contend with tough...

One of the most essential qualities a leader can possess is resilience. Regardless of whether it’s facing new professional or personal challenges we are all seeing faster and more continuous cycles of disruption and change these days. An article in Forbes defines...

We are half way through 2018. Let that sink in. As cliché as it may sound, many of us feel like it was January 1st, just yesterday. Perhaps you started the year by developing a list of resolutions or intentions – things you wanted to accomplish in 2018. You were “all...

As I sit here writing this on a Friday afternoon, I'm consumed. My best friend in the whole world is about to pass on to the next part of life's journey. I have sat with her many times recently, including this past Sunday. It feels like it won't be long now. This week...