Top 3 Posts on Finding Your Motivation for the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! If you haven’t already, you’re probably thinking about what your New Year’s resolutions should be, how you’re going to make them happen, or if you should have any at all. Many people advise that you need to get specific about what you want to achieve otherwise it won’t happen. Well, my...
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Wishing you all a Happy and Memorable Holiday Season 2014! From Kathy, John, and the pups Gracie (left) and Sophie (right). Photo Source: Melissa Brawner
ReadTop 5 Ways to Lead Positive with Others
I have been spending a lot of time lately with an impressive team of strategic thinkers working on how to make the most of 2015 (more on this soon!). The sheer number of great ideas and collaborations we have come up with got me thinking about how important it is to Lead Positive in our...
ReadTop 5 Ways to Shift Your Mindset to the Positive
As we begin to close out the year, I’m taking the time to scan, snap, savor all that my team and I have been able to accomplish over the past year: publishing Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do, launching my new website and blog, and most recently, working with an amazing...
ReadHow Do You Want to Show Up This Holiday Season?
Now that we have officially embarked upon the holiday season, you might be finding yourself rushing from task to task—personal and professional—feeling a little crazed thinking about all the things you “need” to get done before the new year. But ‘tis the season to be merry—not crazy stressed out, right? Stop for a moment and...
ReadHappy Giving Thanks Day!
Giving thanks is a pure act with an amazing array of side benefits. Cultivating an “attitude of gratitude” has been linked to less anxiety and depression, and building multiple aspects of wellbeing from happiness to the capacity for love. Take a look at “A Serving of Gratitude May Save the Day” to see John Tierney’s...
ReadHow To Find Your Authentic Path (More Lead Positive Tips from Robbie Vorhaus)
As a renowned crisis expert and communications strategist, Robbie Vorhaus teaches others that finding their authenticity is the key to happiness and fulfillment. In his recently published book, One Less. One More. – Follow Your Heart. Be Happy. Change Slowly, he explains what happens when you choose to follow your heart, do what you love,...
ReadWhose Story Are You Telling? Lead Positive Tips from Robbie Vorhaus
I interviewed Robbie Vorhaus, renowned crisis expert and communications strategist and author of One Less. One More. Follow Your Heart. Be Happy. Change Slowly, to find out. According to Robbie, your story is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you. Defining your own circumstances and following your heart...
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Why Intuition is Crucial to Leadership
Intuition is what keeps us in alignment with our true selves and our true purpose. The way intuition plays out in leadership is a cultivation of what I call the Third Way. A Third Way presents itself when leaders step out of the narrow, binary thinking, for example, good or bad, right or wrong, win or...
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The Leader as Hero: 5 Essential Daily Acts
I often talk to leaders about putting themselves in the role of “Hero” as they tell their stories. Using the Hero’s Journey as a framework for explaining your vision and how you and your team will get there is a powerful tool to get people on board and start feeling the excitement of taking on...
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