Posts Tagged "weekend wondering"
Weekend Wondering – When the Party’s Over
Are you feeling a bit down today? Or are you just getting revved up for the December holidays? Whatever your reaction to the post-Thanksgiving feast and Black Friday mayhem, it is likely an indication of our cultural addiction to intensity, action, and the resultant stress. We have all become so programmed to the tsunami of incoming information that some studies suggest that people are checking for new messages (of all kinds) as much as every 30 seconds! For those addicted to the urgency, a slowdown of e-mails, news feeds, and family texts cannot be balanced by the slew of Facebook Thanksgiving posts. So, the reaction is two-fold, either we sink into a stupor not sure...
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With Thanksgiving around the corner, this weekend is our last before the Holiday Season kicks into high gear. How are you feeling about the Holidays? If you are like most people, a host of emotions trailing back to childhood color our experience of the annual festivities. Thanksgiving has become the time when we gather with family and friends and toast the success of brave pilgrims weathering the challenges of a new world. That is until the food orgy, football games and familial disputes run us into the biggest shopping day of the year. One way to freshen our traditional feelings of thanks this year is to look at yourself and your leadership in a new light. Living the...
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Many people have a deep hurt that lurks somewhere in the hidden recesses of our lives. Somewhere along the way we loved and it wasn’t returned and instead of seeing it as an personal challenge for the other person, we internalized it as something being wrong with us—we weren’t smart, good, attractive or talented enough to deserve the other person’s affection, in sum there is something wrong with us that we must hide from others. As adults, the challenge becomes the amount of energy it takes to maintain the barrier and the cost of hiding behind it. This weekend, look for a small window of time to be quiet for a few moments and ask yourself if there is a hurt...
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One of the greatest challenges and opportunities in being a truly effective leader is to integrate all of who we are into all our activities. I am constantly amazed when clients describe their background only to leave out major pieces of their life because they didn’t think it was important. Everything that happens in your life is important as it helped shape the person you are in this moment. So welcome to Weekend Wondering, the two days when many people attempt to check-out of work lives and live the life they want to enjoy—so thinking about leadership is the last thing you may want to do. Except that the seeds of your happiness are likely more visible when...
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