Category Archives: Success

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Mastering Overwhelm and Building Resilience

Creating A Personal Resilience Toolkit - A Conversation with Hadley

Overwhelmed? Facing one challenge after the next? Just plain wanting to pull the covers over your head and stay in bed? You’re not alone. Especially these days.

Photo shows a pug dog all wrapped up in his covers with only his sad-looking face peeking out.

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While I’m not opposed to taking some of that “pull the covers over my head” time – I also see the need for some longer term strategies. Maybe building resilience into my routine that serves beyond a day of guilt-free isolation from the world is in order.

I recently had a discussion with Debbie Worman and Ricky Enger from Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired “Facing Your Challenges – How to Gain Strength Through Adversity”  about this very conundrum. Surrendering to your state of overwhelm, while at the same time building a toolkit of resilience. Seem impossible? I disagree. Read on or take a listen to the podcast to see how.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE. 

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Are You Using Mindful Listening To Your Advantage?

How and Why To Become A Mindful Listener

You aren’t listening to me! An accusation that we’ve no doubt heard when our attention is somewhere other than on the person in front of us. Guilty as charged. And yes, no matter how great your reputation of being a good listener, we all do it sometimes. Especially when the stakes are high and conflict is in the air.

Mindful Listening

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On flip side – you’ve probably been a recipient of less than stellar listening a time or two. Perhaps when someone has been more invested in a text, the latest episode of what’s popular on Netflix or just in disagreement with what you were saying. So what goes around comes around.

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Train Your Brain And Manage Your Anxiety

Mindfulness Gives You The Choice

Does it ever feel like you just can’t control your thoughts? Jumping from one anxiety provoking scenario to another without reprieve. Exhausting, stressful and disempowering are descriptors that come to mind. But I have some good news for you. You can control your thoughts. And by managing these little monsters you can find some new and welcomed descriptors like peaceful, centered and productive. Let me share a few secrets with you.

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Do You Want To Be Better At Listening?

Listen With Your Eyes

Have you ever noticed how much time you spend looking down? In today’s world of smartphones, concern about where we need to be next and general rushing around, it seems we’ve lost the art of listening with our eyes. The art of listening with our eyes…what the heck does that mean?

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Well read on. I’ll share with you not only what it is, but why you should be doing it more.

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What Do Your Friends Say About You?

You Are The Average of The 5 People You Spend The Most Time With

What do your friends say about you? No, I don’t mean what’s the latest gossip. I’m talking about the idea that “you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”. Yep, that’s right. At work or play, the company that you keep matters.

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Sounding a little too much like the advice your mom gave you as a teen? Well I hate to break it to you…but she was right…

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