I know there are a lot of statistics that float around about how difficult adult behavioral change is, and as someone who’s been teaching this stuff for nearly a decade, let me put in a plug for changing the way you change. Adult behavioral change is difficult because everything in your system is currently set…
I have a book release today and these days are always strange. On one hand, I’m already beyond this moment (so much preparation and blood/sweat/tears go into my books, by the time they’re out I don’t want to talk about them anymore), and on the other hand, this book has been a gauntlet. I doubt…
Tell someone how much you love them and specifically what you love about them. I’ve been editing the Energy book and am re-doing the practice of some of the exercises, and yesterday, I came across the “tell someone what you love about them” card. I had a friend over yesterday who is a #1 Empathy,…
I rarely tell my origin story about how I got so passionate about alignment, but I did a podcast recently where I talked a bit about the reasons why I do this (and told a story about sitting at a conference listening to someone say they had “data” about how outlining will make everyone faster……
One of the biggest gifts of Strengths is the reminder that we’re not all the same, and we don’t all have the same needs. So when I say something, as a #2 Connectedness, I’m conscious that a #34 Connectedness person isn’t going to receive that in the same way. It’s part of how Strengths create…
When I coach top earning authors, especially for the first time, almost every single one of them, when they’re first describing their pain point, says something like this: “I know I should be grateful for this, and these are such tiny problems compared to what everyone else is facing…” But. Here’s my soapbox about gratitude.…