How does one go about creating health, both for yourself and for those who choose to follow your example? As we have discussed in previous newsletters, and as we will continue to discuss in the future, your dietary habits are critical determinants of your long-term health. However, other things besides diet can be equally important, or even more important. Continue reading
Every woman knows the feeling of being overlooked or run over in a meeting.
No one likes it. Especially the female executive.
In 2014, Harvard Business Review came out with a report that surveyed more than seven thousand people, including female executives at or above the Vice President level. The consistent feedback was that women feel less acknowledged during meetings. Although men agreed with this opinion, they disagreed with why women didn’t feel powerful. Continue reading
It’s difficult to achieve work/life balance when suffering from chronic stress. There’s a big difference between acute stress and chronic stress. Acute stress is a sharp, painful situation that comes on suddenly, you deal with it, and then it’s over. For example, the Californians who had to evacuate their homes in the face of a massive wildfire this past fall, while they were running for their lives, were suffering acute stress. Continue reading
Are you looking to discover a path to your “own” inspiration, grace, fluidity, confidence, satisfaction & happiness? Ever thought about using mindfulness to chart the course?
What is Mindfulness? A Google query to the topic yielded no fewer than 168 million results. Although you’’find a lot of hype – without substance, there are many excellent resources to help build your skill set and start you on the pathway.
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I was coaching one of the national oil companies in the Middle East, offering mentorship to the director of their operational excellence program. He was frustrated because he had invested considerable funds building a team of sixty Lean Six Sigma Black Belts over a nine-month period, and they had not yet worked on—much less completed—any project nor had they realized any benefit to the company.
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