I am so interested in growth mindset. If you’re not familiar with growth mindset, in very simple terms, it is the idea that you have the capacity for growth in anything. Meaning, the old excuse of I’m just not made for ______ (be it running, public speaking, swimming, singing, anything) is just not true. You […]
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Work is often seen as drudgery. How often have you heard people say, it isn’t meant to be fun, it’s work? But if you use work as a way to feel accomplished and confident it suddenly is rewarding. It doesn’t matter if it is life changing complex work or lugging a bucket around. You can
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Every year during Read Across America week kids in our little town, and probably all across the country, read the great Dr. Suess book, Oh the Places You’ll Go wearing the outfits they picked out to support where they want to go when they grow up on career day. You get kids dressed as plumbers,
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You spend so much time at work that it’s nearly impossible for your brain to not turn non-work-related situations into work ones. No, just me, well doing a puzzle recently gave me inspiration on standard operating procedures, skills gap analysis, team development, individual development and more. Unfortunately, that is too much for a single blog
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Are you a person who is able to say no to joining all the things but eats or drinks like you’ll never see food again? Maybe you have great limits around your health but you allow people to remain in your life that are sucking out everything that you have to give. Or maybe you
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Have you ever given a kid a direction and by the time you finish the sentence you can tell by the look on their face, they have no idea what you just said? Or you send them to get something for you from the other room and they come back 20 minutes later doing something
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While we were living in our rental home we got to have a huge oak tree right in the front yard. It was beautiful. It has been there so long that the rope or the homemade swing is fully embedded into its branch. It created amazing shade in the summer and a slight cover for
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I’ve read and watched and heard a lot lately about pushing, hustling, chasing all of the things that get you closer to living your ideal life. I know that to some extent I asked for that. I mean, that’s what the social algorithms do. They fill your feed with what you, in some sense, asked
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A little while back I talked about creating boundaries. We went through what it meant to set a boundary and I suggested that you create your ideal week (or maybe couple of weeks) so that you could take inventory and make a plan on what your boundaries would look like. If you missed that one,
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Do you ever walk into your office, work station, or your kitchen and start running through all of the things you need to do in your head? You start thinking about all of the things that you need to do or that need to be done and pretty soon you’re overwhelmed. Or maybe you can
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