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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.
Explore Drea’s latest thinking, stories, tools, and practices for leading yourself, strengthening conversations, creating meaningful meetings, and building cultures where people can thrive and perform.
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.
Self-Awareness Leads to Self-Regulation
Do you ever feel like your emotions sweep you away and that you have very little control over how long they have a hold over you? For most people, this is a very common pattern. It leads to unhealthy thoughts, limiting beliefs, and sometimes hopelessness as we worry that we’re too emotional and have no control over this. In fact, the reality is that self-awareness leads to self-regulation.
Change Your Life by Raising Your Standards
Have you ever heard that to change your life you need to raise your standards? And have you ever wondered what your standards are, how you created them and more importantly, how you can raise them?
Using Curiosity to Celebrate Your Wins and Avoid Self-Sabotage
Most people carry around beliefs that they are not enough. Do you have thoughts like this that lead to feelings of overwhelm, like you’re not doing enough, and result in self-sabotage? You’re not alone. It’s difficult to resist feeling stressed and even depressed when witnessing others around us doing great things in their lives, let alone celebrate our wins. Curiosity is a tool we can embrace to shift our focus from comparing and feeling inadequate, to becoming more present in life and capturing what we’re doing that IS working.
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