Want to learn valuable communication skills? The twelve TED talks and books by the speaker below guide you along the way. Links to the TED talks (plus more) can be found at the Communication Pathway board at Pinterest. Amazon affiliate…
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Engaging Creativity
A creative mindset can be critical in solving problems, connecting with others, and gaining clarity. To cultivate creativity: • Connect ideas • Really look • Explore • Ask questions • Take time to think • Imagine and inspire ideas •…
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Sources of Strengths
When we know our strengths, we can be our best. Strengths are important for discovering purpose and choosing priorities and goals. Using your strengths for purposeful AIMS adds meaning and satisfaction to life. Below are details about the strengths you…
Delving Into DISC
Personality types can help you gain insight into yourself and others, and match with a compatible career choice. The DISC personality types are: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness. Try the assessment at www.truity.com/test/disc-personality-test to discover your DISC type. The Career…
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Cultivating Courage
Courage is acting despite fear. Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” When we think about courage, we often think of the physical bravery of firefighters, emergency response teams, and warriors as…
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Personal Development Micro-habits
Micro-habits are small actions with big impact. The following ideas are possibilites for adding growth and meaning with tiny experiments. Download the Personal Development Micro-habits pdf MIND – Learning and growth • Start the morning with a short ritual. •…
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Ikigai as a Pathway to Purpose
Purpose is one of the Four Ps of positive shift that contribute to happiness. The Ikigai diagram illustrates finding the intersection between what you are good at, what you love, what the world needs, and what you can be paid…
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Develop Agency
When I began to struggle with extra pounds, I had to confront the fact that my fondness for the comfort zone was in direct opposition with achieving weight loss. Despite my best efforts to find shortcuts and avoid the work,…
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The Choice to Act
Freedom is the ability to choose, and choosing to act with awareness is everything. But sometimes, we are either stuck or simply drifting, allowing fear of the unknown or desire for comfort to be in the driver’s seat. It takes…
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An Experimental Mindset
Mindsets are a set of beliefs that guide behaviors. Sometimes our default mindsets are not helpful, and it can be a good choice to adopt a different one. Scientists use the scientific method to observe, make a hypothesis, and test…
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