Quiet Your Inner Critic in 3 Steps
The inner critic does nothing but beat you up - so why do you let yourself cycle on these thoughts?
It could be because you’re deeply afraid that if you don’t keep beating yourself up, reliving the embarrassment, hiding on the sidelines, then you’ll make the mistake again. But this isn’t a given. You can quiet the inner-critic thoughts, build your confidence back and exit that dizzying, unwanted, rickety merry-go-round of self-criticism.
When it’s time to quiet your inner critic, check out these 3 steps inspired by the work of Shirzad Chamine, author of Positive Intelligence and CEO of Positive Intelligence Inc.
How to Plan a 4-Hour Vacation
Don’t wait weeks or months to truly detach from work, experience something new and stand in wonder of our world. Do it this week, in a 4-hour vacation. Let me help you plan it!
Who even am I anymore? An exercise to get your answer.
We can get caught up in draining cycles of doing, trying, and disconnected action through sheer force. When we do it too long - we start to wonder where WE are in all of it, where are our values? Priorities? Who even are we anymore? This exercise will help you redefine it.
How to Confidently Ask for Help
So often we think we have to figure out everything alone - have the solution, complete the project, know the answer. This is a trap to stop falling into! We are stronger together and it starts with asking for help. This is a 5-step template to help you confidently and clearly ask for help.
The Top 4 Priorities You Need Right Now
We often feel pressure to have big, bold, elaborate, world-changing dreams, but sometimes we’re less “dreamer,” and more “get-through-the-day-er,”. These are the top 4 priorities you need right now to get through the day and then some.
5 Things to Know about Transition Coaching
Whether it’s in life, career, or leadership - change is constant! When you’re thinking about working through it with a transition coach, ground yourself in these 5 things to know about Transition Coaching!
Learning from Trees.
This reflection on trees deconstructs our need to have gotten here on our own, to be independent, in service of others but not of ourselves.
I share this in celebration of our roots, trunks and buds that bloom.
The energy to pay it forward.
Our energy impacts everything! It colors the lens we use to see the world and in turn, our thoughts, feelings, reactions, inactions and results.
And it’s not all rose-colored as the catchy phrase may make us think! Paying it forward takes energy and each of us are in a different spot on how much we’ve got these days. I invite you to give yourself some time to consider your own energy and when it comes to paying to forward, check what your energy is first!
Listening for Change
How can we listen for change? A path to consider: self-assess, brush up on your active listening, and watch out for toxic positivity. Let’s be present and there for each other.
On Savoring what Actually Makes Us Happy
Yep, it’s time for some change. My intention in this post is to both activate my accountability to this community of change agents and inspire some new ideas for you to incorporate as we travel this journey together.
Energy Check!
Our energy impacts everything - our thoughts, feelings, actions and results. And don’t forget, we are complex! Each of us have a unique balance of energies that show up differently when we are having a good day or when things have gone totally off course. The more we can raise awareness of our energy - the more we can make intentional choices about how we show up in ways that serve us and our impact on others.