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Your Physical Energy Keystone: Exercising Your Way To Resilience
To help you begin the ascension toward your best and most resilient self, I’ve explored with you the various tenets for maintaining good physical energy. We looked at managing our energy tanks, seeking…
Wake Up to The Facts: Understanding Sleep’s Correlation to Your Mental Energy
When I was a little girl, as part of my bedtime ritual, my father would ask me a few questions to guide me through my day in review. By holding up fingers, I could keep track of how many good things…
Catchin’ Z’s: The Overlooked Connection Between Sleep & Resilience
Maintaining good physical energy is your ticket to a life and career filled with resilience. Let your physical energy deplete, and you’ll find that not only will your work performance noticeably suffer, but…
Is Your Body A Temple?: Why You Should Embrace Good Physical Energy
In examining the leadership strengths that allow women professionals to be authentic and optimally effective, we at DRIVEN have had plenty to share on Grit and Resilience, known also as the G and R of GRACE…
Steering Into That Skid: 4 More Lessons In Crisis Recovery Using Resilience
When the road ahead in your career appears besieged by potholes, debris, slippery surfaces and other unwelcomed surprises, preventing your own emotional spinouts can seem impractical. Then…
Straightening That Skid: 3 Lessons In Career Crisis Recovery Using Resilience
Have you checked in on your resilience lately? Perhaps my recent article Preemptive Power: How To Cultivate A Resilience Mindset has you meditating on resilient ways to bounce back from career…
Preemptive Power: How To Cultivate A Resilience Mindset
If you’ve been meditating on the Van Gogh quote I shared in my last article Checking Your Gauge: Resilience & Your Emotional Energy Tank, Part 2, have you noticed how many minor nuisances irk you…
Checking Your Gauge: Resilience & Your Emotional Energy Tank, Part 2
“Accurately identify your emotions as they occur, and then move on.” Sounds simple, right? Well, as we learned in Checking Your Gauge, Part 1, only a minority of us can pull off the “identify” part. And…
Checking Your Gauge: Resilience & Your Emotional Energy Tank, Part 1
Vincent Van Gogh famously said, “Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and we obey them without realizing it.” The first part of his statement comes across…
The Secret Ingredient of Resilience: Harnessing Your Spiritual Energy, Part 2
Have you been walking a little taller lately? Perhaps feeling invincible? Then you must have taken my advice in regard to boosting your spiritual energy by drawing a connection to Resilience. This is one…
The Secret Ingredient of Resilience: Harnessing Your Spiritual Energy, Part 1
Life events, constant stress and everyday challenges can all eat away at our resilience. Think about the times you’ve declared, “I give up” or “I can’t take it anymore”. And then, remarkably, you get…
That Which Does Not Kill Us: Resilience as the Fortifier of Your Career
After exploring the ‘C’ of GRACE in the Workplace™, the big discovery was that Confidence is the foundation of being an effective business leader. Confidence even outweighs Competence in many career…
All About Eve: The Road To Reprogramming Your Inner Critic
The Inner Critic plays a key role in our ongoing evolution as a species. Whenever she pokes her nose into your daily business, it’s meant to protect you from embarrassment or disappointment. Haven’t you…
But What If I Fail?: How Your Inner Critic Chips Away At Confidence
As we’ve dipped our toe into the waters of GRACE In The WorkplaceTM with our last few articles, we discovered that our Confidence is partly tied to our DNA (it’s as much as 25% to…
The Outside Influence: How Society Raises The Bar On Confidence
In our recent introduction to GRACE In The WorkplaceTM, as I illustrated the relationship between our DNA “hardwiring” and our confidence level, you were reminded of the power pose. Have…
C Is For Confidence: Beginning To Unpack GRACE In The Workplace
Grit. Resilience. Authenticity. Confidence. Emotional Intelligence. These are the five magic words that, when applied to your career, provide the formula for your success. Acronymically, they are…
DRIVEN Turns The Corner: Gearing Up for GRACE In The Workplace℠
We spent a considerable amount of time during the last quarter exploring Trust in the workplace. This included abundant blog articles and workshops designed to outline the components of trust, to pinpoint the ways in which stress fogs our ability to…
The Power of Transparency: A Real Case Study In Workplace Trust and Betrayal, Part 2
By now, you may have read the first part of my drama-laden case study featuring Lizette, David and Richard, wherein a workplace assumption lead to a betrayal that amounted to a breach of…
When We Assume: A Real Case Study In Workplace Trust and Betrayal, Part 1
Asking questions to better understand a person’s point of view is not as simple as it sounds. It requires the discipline of keeping an open mind. It’s our reflex to project thoughts and feelings onto…
The End Of Assumption: How Genuine Curiosity Can Affect Bias
Building a culture of workplace trust can start with YOU. Yes, you have the ability to leverage your newly-acknowledged Unconscious Bias to build stronger relationships on your team…