Another Year in the Books So Long 2022 What a year! What a last few years, actually. I hope you made it through with as little damage as possible. I See You 2023 As you ready yourself for the New Year, I’ll resist the urge to recommend you create any New Years Resolutions. I’ll defer …
Happiness Chemicals Feeling unappreciated? Unloved? Grouchy? Achy? Try these tips for activating your dopamine (reward chemical), oxytocin (love hormone), serotonin (mood stabilizer) and/or endorphin (pain killer).
What you think about yourself determines what you think about MANY things. So here’s a bit of a primer on the topic of self-esteem based, in part, on The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, by Nathaniel Branden: What IS Self- Esteem? Self-esteem is the reputation we have with ourselves, akin to our ‘brand’ – not the …
From “There’s a Hole in my Sidewalk: An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters,” by Portia Nelson … Chapter 1. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter 2. I …
A leader’s success can easily be predicted by how pressure affects performance. But while the pressures that organizations routinely place on leaders can be tremendous, it’s the pressures leaders put on themselves that are often more powerful…and debilitating. Pressures Imposed by the Organization The list of pressures that organizations put on leaders is near-infinite. Here …
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The following exercise is a variation of Benjamin Franklin’s T-Chart (where he’d take a sheet of paper, divide it into two columns, and use one column to list out all the ‘pros’ of an upcoming decision and the other column to list out all the ‘cons’). In our case, though, rather than starting with a …
