When Everything Is Shifting, This Grounds You

Words When Life Shifts, your anchor is equanimity

When Life Shifts, Your Anchor Is Equanimity Life has seasons — and some bring more change than others. Maybe you’re closing a business that once defined you.Maybe you’re moving away from what’s familiar, retiring from a long-held role, or finding your footing after losing someone dear.Or maybe you’re …

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Finding a way through suffering

Can anything help us when we suffer? A very dear, lifelong friend died of bone cancer. It’s a slow and painful disease, and in the end he was suffering in every moment. Even in his suffering, however, he reached for a higher consciousness, a change in his energy. …

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What To Do When Grief and Loss Overwhelm You

If you live long enough, you’ll face a time when grief and loss overwhelm you. One of my long-time business mentors received a terrible shock. His oldest son, who was in his late 40’s, was found dead in his car at the side of the interstate. The son …

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Do You Add to Calmness or to Drama?

It’s Easy to Fall Into The Drama Ditch I think the bottom line most critical skill for us as leaders of our lives and models for our children is to keep our ground no matter what is going on around us or within us. Think back to the last …

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How To Become A Leader For Yourself and Others

Do you think about how to become a leader? Have you heard that saying, “How we do anything is how we do everything?” For years I didn’t understand it – until I started working with clients who wanted to perform better in their career or improve their parenting skills. I …

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Be a Leader By Taking More Time For Yourself

Somehow, we’ve come to think that to be a leader we have to never take care of our own body and soul. Americans have fallen into the belief that going without vacations, personal retreats, and down time is the thing to do. I’ve heard hundreds of my clients …

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