Don’t Blow Things Up
Recently, we’ve heard from a number of you that you’re finding you have an increasingly short fuse. Today, we’re talking about how you can use The Pause to decrease your stress levels.
Practicing Emotional Agility
Today, we’re sharing how you can build your ability to know, name, and hold your emotions with respect, and as data, but not as truth about what you must do.
Your Emotional Agility
Today, we’re talking about the importance of emotional agility and how to navigate difficult feelings by learning from them while not being held hostage by them.
Living Thoughtfully: Listening to Your Wisdom
We have to find a path to our wisdom, and that is often found in stillness.
Living Thoughtfully: What is it Time for Now?
When people believe that they matter, great things happen!
Living Thoughtfully: Your Psyche Matters
You have a lot of power over how your thinking and emotions unfold throughout the day.
Power and Humility
This year, our focus is to support you in mattering to yourself and in creating environments where people matter. Mattering to yourself is not about becoming narcissistic or thinking you matter above all others. It’s about honoring yourself so you know what matters to you and can then take action on behalf of the people and causes that you care about. So, today, we’re sharing some excerpts from an article about Humility that spoke to us. There’s a link to the full…
Live 2019 with Grace
During some personally difficult times, clients and colleagues will often ask us, “Why do you do this work?” They are puzzled that we would choose to put ourselves in the middle of the messiness and pain that people experience in their lives and work. We do this work because we know that when people matter to themselves and believe that others matter, too, success is ensured. This is true in organizations, on teams, and with individual contributors. Success increases when people matter. …
US & THEM
This week in honor of Martin Luther King Jr, we’d like you to consider a change of language that can have a profound effect on you and on others. You see, language is the fundamental way in which we come to understand and relate to the world around us. When you change your language, you influence your ability to relate to others and to build powerful connections. This week, we’d like you to play with your language. Every…
Why 2018 Was the Best Year in History!
With some regularity, our clients share with us that they’re more distressed by the state of the world than they can ever remember. We can sometimes feel the same, so imagine our surprise when on January 6, 2019 we came upon a New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof titled: “Why 2018 was the Best Year in Human History!” We found it very powerful to hear some of the amazing things that happened in 2018 – most of which didn’t make it…