Is This Draining Your Energy?
Are you tired of putting things off? Is there something important you’ve been neglecting? Are you frustrated by continually delaying tasks?
Perhaps You…
– Set goals and then forget about them
– Don’t set goals at all
– Want to keep your home or office clean but….
– Don’t balance your checkbook and then it becomes a huge project
– Don’t make payments on time (even though you have the money) and now you have a late fee
– Meant to mail the warranty for the new gadget and never got around to it. Now you have to pay for full replacement costs
If you see your pattern here, then it is time to do something new
These uncompleted tasks are energy drainers! (more…)
Looking For an Edge at Work?
Want to improve your performance and career success?
I’m excited to offer you an amazing tool that will help you in a variety of ways both professionally as well as personally. I’m talking about online assessments.
Can you even imagine giving your doctor permission to operate on you without first reviewing MRI images? Of course you wouldn’t!
Similarly, smart business people leverage online assessments to make decisions about hiring, managing, promoting and leading others. You can think of assessments as “MRI tests” to reveal someone’s innermost values, personality tendencies, skill sets, etc…
Assessments are a powerful self-improvement tool designed to help you improve performance and career success! (more…)
Do You Ever Overreact Or Say Things You Wish You Hadn’t Said? 7 Tools To Help You Keep Your Cool!
Do you ever overreact or say things you wish you hadn’t said?
Guess what? It’s not your fault!
Neuro- Science (Study of the brain) has identified what’s called an Amygdala attack. I’ll give you a basic description and then I’ll tell you how you can manage this attack so you lessen stress and save relationships.
In his book “Emotional Intelligence at Work”, Daniel Goleman identifies 2 parts of the brain:
1) Cortex – (conscious, thinking part of the brain)
2) Limbic system – (non-conscious, emotional part of the brain)
This latter non-conscious Limbic system is where we store all of our memories, habits, past experiences, and it’s where our emotions are generated. The job of the Limbic system is really to protect us…. from additional hurts and bad experiences etc. So when it detects a threat, it literally hijacks our cortex and renders us unable to think rationally. (more…)