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Spring Training for Life
Today is a beautiful day in the Northeast - sunny and mid-50s with a light breeze. I hear birds singing and smell the earthiness as the ground softens with the melting of the final snow. I was walking around today with a light jacket unzipped and driving with the...
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The Power of Self-Care
"You saved my life!" I'm not sure I've ever had anyone say that to me, but it happened yesterday. I was facilitating a group of clinicians in a Care for the Caregiver session for the CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. I was sitting next to a...
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5 Steps to Calming the Chaos Storm
There is still an unpacked box in my master bedroom bath. I have lived in my new house for 6 weeks now, and I still haven’t set up my master bath. We found our toothbrushes though so it is ok. The chaos I have sailed through included 9 months of a 3-bedroom house...
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But What if I Fail?
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy The fear of failure can cause us to stop dead in our tracks. Consider Edison’s 10,000 attempts to create a light bulb or Dyson’s 5,126 attempts to invent a bag-less vacuum cleaner....
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New Year’s Resolutions, NOT!
The beginning of the year is a perfect time for reflection and planning. Many of my clients, my innerOvation team and me personally have been doing just this. I'd like to encourage you to ditch New Year's Resolutions and instead focus on powerful goals for 2017 ......
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Are Women contributing to the wage gap?
There is so much information around on the pay gap between women and men. Famous people are talking about it and studies are being released. This important question has many answers depending on where you look. All sources point to it improving (lessoning) since the...
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Sorry, but I just had to write this!
At a recent meeting sitting next to me was a Director level woman. She had some great insight and ideas. As the meeting ensued, I began to notice that every time this leader of women spoke, she said "sorry" first. Having known the challenge of finding that moment to...
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Balance Shmalance!
What is this thing they call "balance"? Seems like everyone is seeking it. Everybody wants to find it. Personally, I think we need to change the definition of balance. Recently I was asked how do I stay so balanced. I laughed because instead of thinking of balance in...
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Don’t Let Me Distract You! Use This Simple Time Management Technique
Are you easily distracted? Here’s a simple time management tool to be sure you’re focussed on what YOU want, and not what THEY want!
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How to Motivate Yourself to Do Something You Don’t Want to Do
Nobody really wants to lose 25 pounds. What we really want is to be thinner. And even that’s not what we really want. What we really want is to feel lighter and more agile, to look and feel terrific, to have more energy to spend more fun time with the kids without...
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