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Practical ideas for the conversations and moments that shape culture.
Leadership is practiced in ordinary moments: before the meeting begins, when tension enters the room, when someone needs honest feedback, and when a team is deciding what it will accept and what it will become.
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Journaling to Uncover Your Patterns and Signals for Great Communication
The relationships in our lives shape us and our realities. We therefore all have a responsibility to bring our best selves to the moments we connect with each other, such as our conversational spaces. When we’re conscious about how we show up and monitor these behaviors regularly through journaling and awareness, we continue learning and practicing ways to use our words and cues to make others feel seen, heard and connected. Our patterns and signals dictate the greatness of our communications.
Striving Toward Non-Striving with Mindfulness and Awareness
How do we know when to act and when to let go? When to push for something, whether it’s toward a goal, an achievement, an aspiration, and when to relax and find ease? As humans we are conditioned to stay busy. When we are not doing anything we feel like we are wasting a day. For example, we work so hard to be able to go on vacation and take mental breaks, yet as quickly as we get time away, we feel guilty or uncomfortable doing nothing. When we are not moving, are minds are busier than ever searching for what we could do to feel “productive.” How do we know when to move and when to just be? Mindfulness training and awareness are the keys to finding balance between striving and non-striving.
Daily Awareness for Leaving a Powerful Legacy and Imprint in this Life
Each day our actions and words create a ripple effect in this world. Have you ever taken a moment to consider the impact you’re making on the world, and how you will have impacted it and others when you’re gone? What would others share about you at your funeral? For some this is uncomfortable to think about, however these questions create important insights you can embrace now for a more meaningful life that touches others. Daily awareness is a tool that will help you leave a powerful legacy in life.
Ground Your Wondering Mind with Mindfulness
Did you know that your mind’s desire to wonder is its default mode? Having a sense of wonder can inspire or hinder us, and the determining factor is mindfulness. Through conscious intention and awareness, we become empowered to choose and create a life that is open to possibility rooted in the positive aspects of wonder.
Understanding Your Unmet Needs
Try this thought on for a moment: Reflect on the last time you were in a conversation and started feeling upset or angry. Was the person you were conversing with taking over the conversational space, or not listening to you? Were you excited to share your ideas, only to be overshadowed by someone blurting out all their ideas in a one-sided speech? Now take a step back into the present. Ask yourself: What did I need during that interaction that I did not receive? Perhaps you needed to be heard, and not being heard created a feeling of anger. Using curiosity, you can better understand your unmet needs and how to satisfy them.
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