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Discomfort Is Your Superpower: Embrace It to Grow

As we kick off a new year, millions of us are setting goals, intentions, or resolutions—roughly 66 percent of Americans, to be exact. Yet, the statistics paint a grim picture. By midyear, fewer than half will have stuck to their resolutions, and by December, only 9 percent will have achieved their goals.  That means that…

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Comfort Myth: You Need to Have All the Answers

What if the key to achieving everything you want this year isn’t about setting bigger goals—but learning to embrace discomfort? As we step into the new year, let’s shift our focus from setting lofty goals to building something even more foundational: our capacity to sit with a new mindset or practice. Goals and intentions are…

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Try This Leader’s Mantra: Don’t Get Comfortable—Even for a Day

Safe Ways to Test Your Discomfort One of my favorite leaders that I’m working with right now, a president of a very large division, shared something with me years ago that stuck. He said he strives to feel uncomfortable every single day. Why? Because he doesn’t want to get too complacent. He’s made it a…

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Protect Your Well-Being with 7 Boundaries

There’s so much we try to accomplish given all the hats we wear that we sometimes forget to practice self-care. We succumb to the myth that we have to do it all while forsaking our mental well-being. Here are seven types of boundaries and examples of how you might express them as you enter into…

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Think You’re Great at Team Conflict? Learn 6 Myths and 10 Hard Truths

Have you ever stopped to consider how many teams you work with on a given day at home, in your community, and at work? Studies suggest that 70 to 80 percent of our time at work is spent in teams or participating in collaborative activities, such as meetings, brainstorming sessions, and problem-solving.  While it’s important…

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3 Steps to Living a Life That Inspires You and Benefits Your Teams

“It is not daily increase but daily decrease; hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.” If you’ve read the quote that I love by martial artist Bruce Lee above, then you can appreciate the next three critical steps to living a life of purpose. They’re not only accessible,…

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Pull Out the Crock-Pot or Get on the Stoop!

Have you ever joined or hosted a potluck? When was the last time you invited neighbors, friends, and strangers to break bread and talk for an hour about just one topic? Does the thought terrify you? Make you anxious? Indifferent? Or just say, “No thanks, not my thing”?  When I lived in Chicago, I was…

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Sorry, Not Sorry: When to Apologize and When to “NOPE!”

I was getting a blood test, and the nurse said, “Your veins are tiny,” and I replied, “Oh, sorry.” I later wondered why I apologized for my body’s natural state. Last night I underestimated dinner prep time, causing a fifteen-minute delay, and apologized twice to my husband for being so late. He was chilling, reading,…

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Be a Force of Nature: Choose Interdependence

This year, the summer solstice was on June 20 at exactly 1:50 p.m. PDT. One of Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun and we experience the longest amount of sunlight. June is also Pride Month and the month we honor and celebrate Juneteenth.    Much like the Earth and Sun’s interdependence, June can…

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Second Guessing Yourself After an Interaction? Tame Your Thoughts with 6 Steps.

You hop in your car after having lunch with a friend and start replaying the conversation in your head. You wonder if that joke you said landed wrong. You notice that she didn’t really laugh when you said it.  You start to worry. You text your friend (at a stoplight, of course—not while driving). “It…

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