This is where you go beyond just work to explore wide-ranging
strategies to bolster your well-being, advance your career or take your
business to the next level. If you are a knowledge-seeker you
ask bigger questions, seek deeper truths, strive for growth, and flourish finding something that reminds you who you are at your best or
causes your heart to flutter with excitement.
Seek Inspiration - Release your Potential
Strategies for Working Smarter, Boositng Brain Power, plus many more
The library consists of quick-read articles and comprehensive
resources. Delve into subjects such as productivity, guiding your enterprise
forward, working smart, communicating authentically, cultivating trust and
credibility, establishing new habits, solving problems, thinking innovatively,
managing your day, or achieving confident leadership.
New material frequently added.
Long-form resources are highlighted in the Coffee Break Bites
We ask you to learn well, not fast. Learning takes time; time is a rare asset, which provokes people to sprint through a set of tasks, trying to jump from beginner to expert. Reading for insight is vastly different than learning measureable skills. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to self-directed learning. Yet, all methods stress the value of devoting time to achieve experiential insight and mastering the finer details to confidently move toward competency.
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It’s estimated over 90% of our behavior runs on autopilot. The mindful
brain knows what is best for you. The autopilot brain does not. It relies on short-cuts that eventually deaden your willpower and decision
making ability. When you operate on autopilot for so long that you do not have mindful
awareness of your own impulses and reactions. You are no longer in executive
control.
As an entrepreneur you should assess whether you are sourcing enough good ideas from outside your immediate think group. Ideas are like building-blocks and the more you have of them, the greater the chance of finding innovative ways to combine them into something new. That might mean getting ideas from people who are not similar to you, who possess knowledge you do not have.
be more Discovery-Driven
Words that distinguish positive emotions have the power to energize, illuminate, brighten, excite, heal and soothe us. Our language improves brain function. Positive words and thoughts propel the motivational centers of the brain into action and help us savour positive experiences, build resilience. Anything with this much meaningful power deserve attention.
558 Positive Words
Many people view self-care as something you do for emergency maintenance like taking a day off or visiting a doctor. Some view self-care as an unnecessary indulgence or treat rather than a priority. An annual visit to a day spa is not adequate self-care. Self-care is absolutely 100% about the things you do on a daily basis to make yourself happy, to refresh and renew your spirit and take care of your mind and body.
Assess your self-care needs
While working one additional hour to move a given project forward is likely not debilitating when viewed in a vacuum, it can trigger a revised baseline where you must continue to overwork in order to maintain some new status quo. Working long hours becomes a habit. It could lead to burnout. Burnout is real. It sneaks up on you. It is crucial for your mental health that you draw lines between your professional and personal time.
4 tips to avoid burn-out
Think back to the last time you were stressed out. Your muscles tightened; your hands and jaw clenched; your breathing became shallow; your heart pumped faster. When you need something immediate to manage stress during high pressure situations or in the heat of the moment, one of the fastest ways to relieve stress is to use your senses as a rescue tool. Your rescue tool will always be reliable and handy.
Bring your senses to the rescue
There is no event or situation we cannot handle as long as we learn not to react by continuous suffering through toxic inner commentary. We refer to the pain of change or hardship such as the betrayal of a friend, the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one. Those experiences can be challenging and difficult for sure. But, they are manageable when we learn to differentiate what suffering looks like and differentiate it from pain.
How do you understand Pain
Even if you are a veteran in your field of expertise and a gifted speaker, before you go into a meeting with a prospective client, you should be properly prepared to make the best impression, have an effective exchange of information, and engage in meaningful and comfortable negotiations. Not every client is the same. Their needs and personalities vary and so do their motivations, questions, concerns, and objections.
Learn 9 key elements
We love metaphors a lot. We need them to make sense of our lives. Serious, insightful, surprising - metaphors paint pictures that get us through many challenging human experiences. The swing is fun for sure, yet it is one those metaphors that can vividly connect to the fundamental truths in life as well as leadership, entrepreneurship, staying motivated, and mental health. Come explore the swing.
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