As a coach and someone who trains on communication, I’ve been preaching the power of the pause for a long time. I am an outgoing person, and in trainings, I often illustrate a pause by sipping on my straw. You see, outgoing people can often speak before they think. When a straw is in my […]
Manage Expectations to Reduce Stress
The Oxford dictionary defines disappointment as “sadness or displeasure caused by the non fulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations.” In short, disappointment is unmet expectations. In our daily life, we can be disappointed in our self, spouse, kids, boss, team members, service providers, healthcare…well, just about everything and everyone! We wake up with expectations for […]
Feelings vs Facts
If I had to sum up succinctly what I feel is wrong in our country right now, I would say our emotional intelligence as a whole is in the basement. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is our ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate higher levels of collaboration and […]
Why Do You Trust?
Hatred Will be Our Undoing
I recently watched the movie, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, a 2008 movie based in the World War II era. It follows a German family who moves so the father can take his new post at a “farm” which is really an extinction camp. The movie is complex and shows multiple sides of the […]
Do You Know What You Like?
The Little Things Matter
I get the statement, “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff,” but I tend to disagree with it. I believe life is made up of the little things, and we must pay attention to them. Look at the world right now: it’s off the rails! Why? Because we stopped caring about the little things, and now the […]
Handling Crucial Conversations with EQ
Back in September of 2001, authors Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, and Ron McMillan released their book, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High. Not in a million years would they have predicted what would happen about the same time as their book launched. Perhaps it was Devine providence or just luck, but […]
