How to build leadership presence through steadiness, judgment, and clarity — even under pressure. This skill is the foundation for a leadership style that enhances credibility and trust, especially in uncertain or high-stakes situations.
Grateful today for these beautiful crocuses at the side of my driveway and other signs of spring. Forsythia buds. The nest with peeping chicks at the corner of the garden. Warmer days that promise better times ahead. These lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins have been ringing in my head today: And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown…
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I’ve been working from home for over five years. Over that time, I’ve learned a lot about how to manage the balance between work and life.
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If you want to convey who you are, and do it memorably, find a spirit animal.
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Better sleep makes all your other goals possible. Here are four daytime tips and one tried-and-true nighttime method sleeping well.
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Happiness is part of our genentic make up. Find out how much of happiness is genetic, and what actually works to increase your sense of well being.
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We all handle fear in our particular way. Some ways are healthier than others. Some of us love to be scared. Some of us not so much. As I’ve written before, emotions are filed away in our brains as if there were a file drawer for each emotion. Everything you have ever been afraid of gets filed in the fear drawer, or neural network as a psychologist would call it. If you have unresolved fears from the past, those old…
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