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Why Pay Attention To Your Intuition

One thing you will discover when you begin to nurture your intuition, is that what you are truly doing is nurturing you most authentic self, your spirit. Nurturing intuition is actually the art of discovering and honoring who you really are. Being i...

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The Procrastinating Perfectionist

Are you a procrastinating perfectionist? I once read an article dealing with the fear of failure and success. The author described it as the following: “The curse of the procrastinating perfectionist”. Boy did I ever associate myself with that st...

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What a Bully Taught Me About Public Speaking

I hated Kyle Sisk. A notorious bully, Kyle punctuated my grade school years with misery. He would tease me about my weight, purposely rattle me with shocking language, delight in making me look foolish at every opportunity. Kyle had scary, penetratin...

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Honor Your Creativity

Many years ago, I saw a movie entitled 'The Last of Sheila', starring James Coburn, Dyan Cannon, James Mason, to name just a few. I love mysteries and I still remember this as one of the best I've ever seen. The overall mystery was ver...

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Look in Your Fridge

Have you looked in your refrigerator lately? What do you find there? Leftovers from yesterday that are still appetizing? Or bits and pieces of meals you've eaten at some indeterminate time in the past? Do you save food that isn't enough for...

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the High EQ, Low EQ Sales Quiz

In addition to my coaching, and my usual comings and goings this past couple of months, I’ve been in the real estate business, selling my own home, and working with a coaching client who wants to buy a house in Alabama. I’ve seen a lot of people ...

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Coaching is Like Gardening

"A garden in the early stage is not a pleasant or compelling place: it's a lot of arduous, messy, noisome work digging up the hard ground, putting in the fertilizer, along with the seeds and seedlings. So with beginning a story or novel." Ted S...

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How To Be The Perfect Guest - Business or Social

When you're invited somewhere as "the guest," you really have a role to play, and it's an active one, not a passive one. You're there to enjoy yourself, but it's also up to you to make a positive contribution to the gathering. Her...

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Tomorrow Never Comes

Do you do what comes easy to you and tend to put off some of yourmore difficult tasks for later? Most people who procrastinateput stuff off that they should be doing now. They wait til lateror tomorrow. But they fail to realize that tomorrow never co...

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It's 'Cause I Have To, Mr. Elmer An EQ Tale

Elmer builds roofs and runs construction crews. One afternoon he went fishing with one of his employees. Same bait, same hole, same fishing pole, but he was catching nothing, and his buddy was raking them in.“How come you’re catching all the fish...

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