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You're Not Really "Fine"​ After All

As the holiday season nears, I want to give you the gift of emotional freedom by encouraging you to use a couple of simple tricks when thinking about and communicating your emotions.

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How Playtime is Critical for Business Success and Personal Happiness

This morning, I blocked a priority event on my calendar that was absolutely non-negotiable, and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long, long time.

Brainstorming? Nope.

Team meeting? Nuh-uh.

Content creation? No (but that IS coming soon, stay tuned).

I attended Track & Field Day at my sons’ elementary school.

I literally paused before starting to type again because I thoroughly found so much joy in watching them, and their classmates, let loose on an absolutely perfect day. Then it struck me how often we as adults forget to just have fun with whatever we’re doing. Whether it’s work related, life related, or just personal time, we seem to have overloaded schedules of “stuff” and “meetings” that tend to pull our energy and drain us by the end of the day.

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Why New Things Are Good Things

While disruption to your comfort may seem unappealing, there are numerous benefits to trying something new that you may be overlooking. These benefits can improve you both personally and professionally, so in this newsletter, I'll share both sides of the blessing of changing things up.

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Your Internal Voice: Friend or Foe?

In this blog, I share a transformational mindset that I heard during a Peloton ride the other day about how we talk to ourselves every day.

This blog will not only have you realizing how much you probably talk down to yourself, but how to change that dynamic to rid yourselves of negative creep and impostor syndrome.

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The Poison of Negativity

Negativity can come in numerous forms including cynicism, hostility, filtering, blaming, or polarized thinking. By not having control over emotions, these actions are brought through conversation (in front of the person or behind their backs), online bullying, abrupt and coarse email exchanges and a variety of other methods.

Having seen this happen to a number of friends and colleagues as of late, I wanted to put this quick article together to support those who are in the onslaught of this bad behavior.

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