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Introducing HR Heroes

Are you overwhelmed by the day-to-day people side of your business? It can take up precious time that you could spend on growing your business. Now, think of how much more efficient you would be with a seasoned HR pro by your side.
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Are You Ready To Grow Your Business?

Do you run a small business? If so, Fasten your seatbelt. You’ll need it and you need a business coach as a partner. Here’s why. It's often said that more than...
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When In Doubt, Do This

Have you ever had a decision looming and you couldn’t make up your mind about what to do? We all have! Here are some great tips on how to handle those situations.
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7 Reasons Why Should You Never Give Up On Yourself

I know. I get it. I live it myself some days. Okay, many days. The slog uphill in the mud to a big dream just seems so hard with that 100-pound backpack of rocks strapped on. The idea of giving up seems like a blessed relief. Here’s why we shouldn’t and why I won’t.
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Change Your Morning, Change Your Life

I get that “morning” can mean different actual starting times to everyone. I’m a fairly morning oriented person by nature. The time of morning really has nothing to do with these tips I’ve accumulated for you as the days lengthen and we head toward spring. It is about how to start out on the right foot every day with new success habits.
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Happy Valentine's Day

In 1973 J.A. Lee wrote a book called the Colours of Love. It highlighted the seven types of love discussed below and is loosely based on classical readings, especially of Plato and Aristotle founded on Greek teachings. While researching this subject, I found 4, 5, 6, and 8 types of love. The Greeks generally are a wise source on this and many other subjects so I decided to overview their definition as a reminder to us all about the many different faces of love in our lives.
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What Exactly Can You Expect From Coaching?

I’m a Master Certified Life Coach. Okay. Whatever. What does that mean to you? That’s what you really want to know and I get that. Here’s a good list of what a highly skilled life coach can bring to your business, career or life:
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Crappy First Attempts Rock!

We have such high expectations of ourselves sometimes. We try something, it doesn’t work out the very first time and we say...
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Unlock Your Unrealized Dreams

We have such high expectations of ourselves sometimes. We try something, it doesn’t work out the very first time and we say forget it. Would a group coaching experience with other women enhance your life by giving you support, coaching tools, innovative ideas, and the chance to develop relationships with other women who are experiencing the same time of life and some similar situations that you are?
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How To Be Productive in January

The holidays are now over. That always feels a bit like a relief to me. I love the parties, food, family, friends – and then I’m ready to get back to a routine. I find comfort in that routine when I’ve been out of it. So, I’m back to normal food, my exercise routine, my clients, my business– my life.
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Set Your Intensions For 2019

Intention - The dictionary describes intention as “a determination to act in a certain way. A resolve. Resolve means we are firmly moving forward.” It’s not a wish. It’s a determination. It is something we mean to do. Intention moves us forward on firm legs. If an intention is wobbly or weak, the chances are good we won’t see it through.
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Thank You & Happy Holidays

Hitting the pause button to send warmest wishes your way for a great holiday season as we look at the end of the year.
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Show Up Big For 2019

Always, there’s going to be a lot of tips and advice about the New Year and I have a few upcoming topics about that for you myself! Today, I want to share four things to do no matter what your New Years goals are. These are the steps we don’t always want to do.
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Top Tip To Save Your Holiday Sanity

If you are feeling the holiday crazies, try this simple exercise. Pick a holiday event or tradition. Get quiet. Sit down, do three deep breaths in and out. Ask yourself if that tradition is shackles on or shackles off. We all know what the sensation of a mental shackle feels like. You’ll get the answer very quickly in your body.
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Three Unique Career Tips

The United States has just hit a low - a very good low. Our unemployment for May was a mere 3.8%. That’s the lowest it’s been in the last ten years I just reviewed. What does that mean for you?
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Take Action

By now, everyone has heard about Mamoudou Gassama, the “French Spiderman” who rescued the little boy hanging from a fourth floor balcony in Paris. Here are five things I’d like to share with everyone from a coaching perspective about Mr. Gassama’s hugely inspiring feat...
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You Are Not A Tree

Making a major life change feels very challenging. Dare I say it feels impossible when we are standing at the edge of the abyss and we can’t see the bottom no matter how hard we peer down? The fog obscures our sight and the worst scenarios imaginable come forward to roost in our minds.
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Bad, Bad News

I’m a Leon Bridges fan and love his vintage soul sound. He has a song out now called "Bad Bad News", and as a lover of song lyrics, I’m sharing this snippet of the song...
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Your Life Is Your Responsibility

Many of us have heard the statement “Be the CEO” of your life. It’s become popular over the last five or so years and there is a book that came out with that very title by Veera B. Budhi. The subject of full personal responsibility has always been core to who I am. It may feel scary at first but it becomes so empowering.
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Don't Get Too Cozy

Everyone talks about getting cozy in the wintertime. It’s late March and there is still some winter headed our way, even here in the South where I live. It’s okay to get cozy with soup and a warm throw when the weather dictates. What’s not ideal is to get too cozy with your life, no matter the season.
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Kick Job Change Fear to the Curb

It’s normal to feel some trepidation about a job change. It’s stepping out into the unknown and no matter how much we know about the opportunity, our careers are an integral part of our lives on many levels. Here are three exercises that will help you.
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Time as Your Ally

I want to challenge some concepts of Time and make Time what it really is - a useful ally. Here are Time facts and thoughts for you to incorporate.
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Never Give Up

I’ve collected quotes that have deeply resonated with me for over 30 years. These sayings have been a beacon for my life.
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Magical Moves for Mid-Life Women

Mid-life is GO time. With rock solid experience in the background and a hell of a lot of life left to give our all to, women are well served to focus on the moves that can get them where they want to go.
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Top 10 Hard Facts on Why Goal Setting Fails

We have read ad nauseam about goal setting. We set off! Ready to conquer and committed, but don’t always succeed. Here are the most compelling reasons why. It’s all about NOTHING!
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Are you satisfied with your career?

I want to talk to you today about your career satisfaction as we move toward the end of the first quarter of 2019. The weather is warming up here in Atlanta and that gets most of us to moving on with next steps in a lot of aspects of life that we have in mind.
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