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Emotional Mindfulness: What Anger, Vulnerability & Despair Teach Us
When I wrote the original version of this article two years ago, I was experiencing many contradictory feelings and wondered – how can so many potent emotions sit side by side within me? This week,...
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Mindful Feedback ~ Reprise
Most people don’t respond positively to feedback (a.k.a criticism). The expanding knowledge we have about how the brain works is helping us to understand why. Even under the BEST of circumstances,...
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How Emotions Shape Decision-Making ~ Reprise
There is little disagreement that effective decision-making is one of the most important tasks we must master to achieve success in every part of life. If we were to take a survey in the average...
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Your Beliefs Run Your Life But You Can Change the Story~Reprise
“You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life. Don Miguel Ruiz, author The 4 Agreements “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea. A single idea...
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Emotional Intelligence ~ 20 Years On ~ Part 2
Continuing the conversation started in Part 1 of this article – several key questions keep surfacing. One is the often unspoken tension between EI (Emotional Intelligence) and what is typically...
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~Taking a Break~
It’s time for a break. Time for some new places ~ Time to Catch Up on Reading ~ Time to Do Some Writing ~ Time to ~ See you sometime in August Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment,...
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What are you Giving?
I refuse to buy into the belief that there are more takers in the world than givers. Naïve? The media is filled with stories about the greedy, the callous and the downright meanness of some people...
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Everything Old is New Again
Most bloggers track the statistics on their reader’s preferences. While the motivation for writing a particular article can vary. most writers will admit to an “attachment” to certain pieces and a...
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Forgiveness at Work – Cleaning our Emotional House ~Reprise
“Forgiveness is a lovely idea until you have someone to forgive.” C.S. Lewis I’ve thought a lot about forgiveness lately. Often when we face life’s major passages, a flood of old thoughts and feelings...
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We’re Up Against our Mindsets
Mindsets aren’t a new concept to me. I’ve been working with my own for a long time. I’m now conscious that I’ve constructed walls and obstacles that are buried deep within my thinking patterns....
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The 3 R’s of Leadership ~ Reflection, Relationships & Resiliency
“We need to disavow ourselves of the notion that leadership is power over other people.” Ed Batista I’ve often written about the slow death of the authoritarian leader – envisioning the demise of...
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~Taking a Break~
It’s time for a break. Time for some new places ~ Time to Catch Up on Reading ~ Time to Do Some Writing ~ Time to ~ See you sometime in August Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment,...
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5 Practices for Mindful Communication ~ Revisited
It’s getting difficult not to bump into the word mindfulness these days. While mindfulness is mostly associated with meditation, I like to think of it as a way of being in the world. Mindfulness...
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Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver’s haunting question should become a mantra for life in the 21st century. Seemingly inured to stress, too many of us speed through each day without taking the...
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~Time for a Break~
It’s that time again….. Time for some Travel Time to Unplug & Read Time for Some Fun Time to Eat Lavender Vanilla Bean Birthday Cake A Little Time to Just Be See you sometime in August...
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Humility ~ The Emotions Series – Reprise
I often write about emotions. In fact, at the heart of my work and this blog, is the effort to illuminate emotional life and provide a space for conversation about feelings. While many articles focus...
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Building Resiliency through Emotional Awareness ~ Reprise
Resiliency. The ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity. A return to balance. Emotional Buoyancy. Flexibility. Are we what we feel? While that may be a rhetorical question,...
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Fear’s a Common Response in Today’s World ~ What We Do With It Matters
“Fear does not predict the future: it only tells you that you are afraid. The trick is to recognize the emotion when it emerges, accept it, discover its source and decide what to do with it.”...
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What Does it Mean to Live in the Age of Empathy? ~ Reprise
If we are living in a so-called Age of Empathy – what does it mean? What does it mean for an individual, a co-worker, an employer, a neighbor, a city or a world society to live with empathy in the...
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Giving Our Presence
A brand new year. What can I do to make the changes that will transform my life to give me more of what I want and need? It’s common to find new or better relationships on even our shortest lists....
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