Category: Intention setting
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Holding the Line
Have you ever had one of those times in your life when you felt backed into a corner? You know what you believe is right and yet the pressure to change your mind, to change your decision is relentless. It happens in professional life and it happens in personal life. And it is difficult sometimes…
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Not Your Mother
On more than one occasion I’ve thought, and even said aloud, that if I were to write a book on management, I would call it “I Am Not Your Mother” and subhead it with “And other truths that managers should know.” It’s a bit of a flippant phrase, I know, but it encapsulates a reality…
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Rising Above
When I approach leadership, and life, with a full heart, I approach it with a commitment to bringing my whole self to every interaction and every situation. This is my authentic core that I am showing you and I am sharing with you who I am, what I believe and even, often, what I feel.…
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Authenticity
What is the role of a leader? Depending on your setting and your individual mindset, the answer could be to set direction, to motivate, to make change, to get things done. Regardless of what your definition of a leader, of your own leadership role, one thing is always true—you carry the responsibility. At the end…
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Feeling Whole
As leaders, and as individuals, we spend a fair amount of time on the “if only” or “when this happens.” You know what I’m talking about. It’s that goal, that target we put out there. It’s the moment when we will have achieved what we believe we need to achieve to get to whatever it…
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Finding Your Voice
I remember being told, even in high school English classes, that you should “find your voice” when you write. At the time, it seemed straightforward to me. Just write from what you know, express the uniqueness of who you are. It took me a bit of time to fully recognize the complexity of that effort.…
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Mindful Moments
There is no shortage of advice on leadership, and life, that urges us to be more mindful, to be focused and intentional, to find those places of quiet contemplation within ourselves. I don’t know about you but for me, quiet internal places have always been in short supply. If I had a visual for the…
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Breathing Life into Intention
As we think about anything we desire to do, to be, to achieve, we begin with intention. What is it that we want to do? Who is it that we want to be? It is often said that if we don’t know where we are going, we will not know when we get there. I…
With a Full Heart 