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The Untethered Soul
I believe in synchronicity. When multiple people tell me the same thing, especially 3 or more times, then I really pay attention. That's what happened with this book The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. I had participants in my coaching workshops telling me I HAD...
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Clarify, Strategize, Plan, Act, Realize, the innerOvation method for problem solving!
During a recent breakfast chat with a leader of a 30-person service company I was posed the following question, “How do I get my supervisors to keep their members off their cell phones during work hours?”. I laughed aloud and then retorted so what? As the...
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How to avoid a values collision
I wake up at 6 to get the train moving. I shower and am ready, when disaster hits. My youngest son comes into the kitchen, teary holding his ears. I have a new client starting this morning. What do I do now? Obviously my son needs to see a doctor. How do I do that...
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Thought-Weeds and Thought-Seeds
In a recent teambuilding session we were celebrating spring and I asked them the following question: If you were a flower, what would you be and why? Here were some of the responses: Sunflower - because it is warm and bright and when I see one it make me feel light...
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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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