Actions vs. the outcome Last night I came across a photo of myself from my junior year of college.I looked at my 20 year old self and shook my head- the girl in the photo had no idea that in 2 years she’d be pregnant, moving back home as a single mom and being diagnosed […]
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What is the story we are being told? Over 2,000 years ago Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, commented on the human tendency to speak more than listen.“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”We react to the story we tell ourselves, not respond to the story
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A band aid won’t fix this We are facing a healthcare crisis – losing nurses and doctors that are needed to keep our communities healthy.Too many organizations/hospitals don’t fund training or address, mindful leadership, emotional intelligence burnout and the impact it has on the mental health of physicians, nurses and staff and on the quality
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This is what kindness looks like I have to share the sight I came up the stairs to after working down in BMK tonight. Finley started having cold symptoms after school. No fever. Negative Covid test. But she knows that I have some important in person workshops and meetings with potential consulting clients and speaking
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I knew that I could do more I was hit with a question I wasn’t expecting during a meeting Friday afternoon.A meeting about the need for leadership training in the financial sector went a different direction when, after I described the community that I live in, I was asked:“Are you concerned about your kids not
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“What the heck are we doing?!” Have you had this happen?When you do something purely on instinct and then your rational/logical brain catches up and yells at you “WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?? ”.Someone captured that very moment a few weeks ago while I was speaking at a conference in Cleveland. And because vulnerability
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On Shifting Perspective What if I’m wrong?What if I’m doing something not because it is the right thing to do, but because I BELIEVE it is the right thing to do?Are you willing to turn around and look at something from another perspective?It is when we refuse to consider the possibility that we could be
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September is Suicide Prevention Month “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up- so what?”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditation 7.7 The most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome at the
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Meeting Our Emotions With Curiosity I felt myself getting pissed off.Part of me wanted to take the anger and run with it.The Stoic in me won out.Not because it caused me to shove down my emotions. That’s not what Stoicism teaches.It won out because I got curious instead of angry.I called Finn over and told
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Champion Others Don’t be a team of bittersweet.From sports to medical to corporate – I have run into team after team made up of bittersweet. And very few made up of champions.Yesterday, I ended up butt down in a shallow creek after tripping over a vine while clearing out the heavy brush in the timber.