Archive for August 2022
Wow! This Might Surprise You About Striving
Dictionary.com defines striving this way: the act or practice of trying hard to do, reach, or achieve something; vigorous effort the act of fighting or struggling against someone or something; competition, opposition, or battle There’s something very good about giving something your full effort – holding nothing back when it comes to doing a job…
Read More3 Ways To Keep Your Leadership Fresh
Leadership – it’s a big responsibility! When conversing with leaders, I hear the words demanding, overwhelming, never-ending, lonely, and challenging frequently. Those words sound like a recipe for burnout. And that’s not a happy feeling! To make matters worse, operating at max or maybe overflowing capacity, leaves very little room for doing what leaders do…
Read More6 Reasons to Ban the Word Busy
Busy – how often do you find yourself using that word? It’s a simple word, and a loaded word. It’s come to mean more than “doing something” or “engaged in an activity.” The word busy now implies a whole lot more. It’s become shorthand for being… Important Significant Someone who matters Enough Competent The opposite…
Read MoreQuit Your People Pleasing Ways
People pleasing rarely leads to the perks you think it will. As I mentioned in last week’s blog, people pleasers suffer some pretty significant loses! If you are a people pleaser, you’ve probably discovered by now how exhausting it is to try and make everyone happy. Not to mention just how tiring it is to…
Read More8 Powerful Things People Pleasers Give Away
Are you a people pleaser? Someone prone to people pleasing – striving to make everyone around you happy at your own expense? You probably didn’t set out to be a people pleaser, but odds are good that you were “set up” for it. But before we get to that, take a look at this list.…
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