Archives of #reflection

Always On Guard: How to Calm a Nervous System That Never Rests

When You’re Always On Guard There is a moment many people recognize, even if they have never named it. You are sitting at the kitchen table. The house is quiet. Nothing is wrong. And yet, your shoulders are tight. Your jaw is clenched. Your breathing is shallow. Your body is braced, like something is about […]
2 months ago

Burnout That Does Not Look Like Burnout

The physiology of quiet depletion in high performers Why capable leaders do not see it coming Most entrepreneurs expect burnout to look dramatic. Exhaustion. Loss of motivation. Inability to function. But research on chronic stress tells a different story. High-functioning burnout often develops while performance remains intact. That is because the nervous system is adaptive. […]
2 months ago
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Does relaxing make you more resilient?

Do you think this is a trick question?  Because we have always been told that if we relax we will feel better. The truth is we do; the catch, unfortunately, is that it can be short-lived. I remember working in an office, leading people, and needing a vacation.  This experience was long before I understood […]
5 years ago
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Making the second half of 2021 count!

The last 18 months have challenged us all in so many ways.  What we knew to be true is no more.  Some of what we released didn’t serve us and some of what was out of reach we missed.   Have you ever felt like you were in the flow, maybe it felt like a […]
5 years ago

How many of you take photos with your phone?

Does it seem like you take multiple shots of the same thing? Do you feel like you don’t want to miss a moment, so you just keep pressing the button?  No harm, no foul; that’s me for sure!  A recent conversation I had with a friend focused on this very subject.  The conversation went something like this… people are […]
9 years ago

Do you serve coffee?

When people gather together is it your first inclination to serve?  Are you interested in helping others?  If you answered yes to either of these questions, then the rest of this post will be of interest to you! Being of Service shifts your thinking, shifts your focus and changes how you feel. A few weeks […]
9 years ago

Create your intention today!

To create an intention is to clarify what you want to achieve: in a morning, a day, a lifetime. This act is deceptively simple yet deeply powerful. When you stop to ask — what is the one thing I could achieve today to make it great? First step is to check your internal “To Do” […]
9 years ago

What is your opening line?

So you are at a social event, how do you connect with others?    Does conversation come easy?  How do you decide who you want to speak to?  Have you ever thought about this? Let’s explore a little! There is literal vibrational truth to such expressions as being “on the same wave length” with someone. There […]
9 years ago

Caught up in the sound of silence: How do you handle it?

How much time do you spend in the quiet of your own thoughts or the quiet of nature?  It is hard to ignore the buzz that seems to exist throughout our lives.  There is more noise than we recognize and it is much harder to exist without it than one thinks! I always thought I […]
9 years ago
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