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Employee motivation

3 Motivation Hacks Every Great Leader Swears By

Some leaders believe increasing pay increases employee motivation. Long-term team motivation comes from much more than pay.

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Decision Making

How to Make Good Decisions

Few things bring as much relief as getting decisions made. With practice, you can improve your ability to make quality choices. Here are 17 tools to start using today.

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Curious man

My 20 Favorite Questions to Ask Clients

Human connection heals! As you prepare for interactions with your family, friends & co-workers, here are some questions that can strengthen bonds.

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Dating Marriage Relationships

12 Dating & Marriage Building Activities

If a healthy romantic relationship were easy, more people would have one. Whether in a dating relationship, engaged, or married, here are 12 dating & marriage relationship-building activities that can take your connection from average to extraordinary.

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Coffee Connection

25 Connection Hacks to Build Closer Relationships

Here's the ULTIMATE guide for building relationships. 25 practical tools for strengthening your connections at home and work.

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Relationship building questions

50 Fun Relationship-Building Questions

Here's a list of 50 of my favorite relationship building questions. Use this tool to build relationships at work, home, and with your friends. They work well for team meetings and family events. Enjoy!

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Feeling Overwhelmed

Feeling Overwhelmed? Try These 15 Simple Calming Techniques

Be prepared to handle difficult situations in a positive fashion. Here are 15 ways to calm yourself when feeling overwhelmed.

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Happiness

30 Happiness Building Actions

There's a lack of happiness and no shortage of stress and anxiety in the world today. People who take care of their mental health do things differently. They engage in actions that are distinct from those who struggle.

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Grateful Woman

25 Gratitude Questions to Stay Positive

We all have seasons in our lives when it's very hard to be positive. Gratitude is one of the only things that can end my pity party. 

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Man With a Vision

Clarifying a Vision for Your Future

We are 100 times more motivated moving towards what we want, than away from what we don't want. Create a picture of what you want! Our goals lead you toward your vision, or they're not the right goals.

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Emotionally health

How To Be Emotionally Healthy

There's a correlation between a lack of healthy emotional expression with depression and anxiety. How do I know this? Well, from research, as well as, from my own personal experience. But there is hope! The healthier you become emotionally, the better life gets.

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Why You Must Face Your Past

I want my clients to live full and free lives. I don't want the past holding them back. Frequently I challenge clients to process, and come to terms with, past trauma. Their future, and mine, depends on us facing our demons.

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Vulnerability

Taking Decisive & Consistent Action

If we don't risk getting hurt emotionally, we hinder our ability to feel good emotionally. Emotional vulnerability is a lifelong struggle and crucial to being emotionally healthy. We grow from experiencing failure, rejection & embarrassment and realizing we can handle it. 

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Without hope

Fear vs Hope Cycle

Everyone struggles with fear & anxiety at different points. Sometimes it's triggered by trauma. Sometimes a lack of sleep can sleep causes it. You can take specific actions to change your perspective from fear to hope.

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A Simple & Powerful Stress Coping Tool

Clients frequently ask for help in coping with stress. Most people can identify the source of their tension (e.g. parenting, relationships, the economy, money, job, health, COVID, etc.), but often CANNOT figure out how to stop the worry.

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Stressed Out Young Woman

Overcoming Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety focuses on what can go wrong. It zeroes in on the worst outcome coming true and bad things happening again. Hope focuses on what can go right, and the opportunity in every circumstance.

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Ice Breakers

17 Icebreakers for Work Meetings That Build Trust and Energy

Icebreakers, to start off a meeting, can make a positive difference. They building connections, comraderie, and add fun to the workplace.

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Time Management

Progress Is Built In 15-Minute Chunks—Leaders Make Each One Count.

You can make great progress in just a quarter of an hour. Significant and "imperfect" progress is a product of consistently making smart 15-minute choices.

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Read great books

The 5 Books Every Leader Should Read

Looking for your next great read to improve your life? Here are 5 books we use with leaders and leadership teams frequently in coaching.

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Workplace Stress

How Leaders Accidentally Demotivate Employees

Through helping hundreds of companies, there are four main reasons workplaces demotivate employees. When you eliminate these issues, morale improves, and your company profits..

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Being brave skydiving

7 Unexpected Benefits of Being Brave

Being brave decreases anxiety, improves relationships, and takes the focus off yourself. Remembering this motivates me to not take the easy way out.

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Encourage People

10 Ways to Encourage People You Care About

Most people make one big relationship mistake, both personally and professionally. Stop this tendency and you'll improve your life plus encourage the people you care about most.

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Goal setting

9 Traps to Avoid with Setting Goals

Here are 9 common traps that snag people and make your goals fall flat. Avoid each one!

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conflict argument disagreement

16 Must-Know Essentials for Resolving Conflict Like a Pro

Navigating conflict in a healthy fashion is how you build trust and cohesiveness on your team and in your family.

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