Loving Your Leadership Life®

Are you stuck on negative thinking? We have all been there. According to the National Science Foundation, we have a lot of repetitive and negative thoughts. Listen to discover: Just how much repetitive and negative thinking we do. The brain’s top three objectives and how they influence our results. How our thinking habits and filters are formed and what we might miss because of them. How our defau...

Have you or your team ever gone off the rails just as you were about to reach a big goal? The cause is likely not what you think. Listen to discover: What really causes self-sabotage. What we are trying to avoid when we self-destruct. How to spot self-sabotage in yourself and your team. How to keep you and your team from self-sabotaging. To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership...

Forming new habits can take time and sometimes we just give up and go back to our old ways. Here are some ways to improve your chances of making those new habits stick. Listen to discover: The missing piece that most of us leave out. What can get in your way without you even noticing. The one question you can ask yourself to help you be more intentional with your habits. How to pick the right...

Leadership is challenging enough. You have to be sure to get out of your own way. Thought management in leadership is a must. This is the second part of a two-part series on lessons learned from a master of the human mind…President Abraham Lincoln. Listen to discover: How Lincoln was able to build trust with his team even though it was made up of his political rivals. The other side of Lincoln tha...

I remember being told by someone on my team that they could not hear me. That was on me. Which is why I was so intrigued to read about how President Lincoln made himself heard to unite both his team and his country. I learned so much by reading Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biographical portrait of the political genius of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Listen to discover: Why being heard...

Shortcuts can be helpful in getting what you want quickly but sometimes they can sabotage your leadership. Noticing the mental shortcuts you take and practicing how to work around them can increase trust and relationship building in your leadership. Listen to discover: Why we are becoming more accustomed to taking mental shortcuts in leadership. How to notice when we are taking mental shortcuts th...

Have you done your mid-year review? Since learning all about how our thoughts and emotions work, I have added a meaningful step. Listen to discover: How checking in with your future self helps to make your goals more attainable. How to take to engage your future self. What you learn about yourself and your goals when you tap into your future self. How to use your connection with your future self t...

What have you been unwilling to create? What problem is out there waiting for you to solve? Listen to discover: What creating in leadership is and why it is important. Reasons we are not willing to change, create, or innovate. How to think about creating to be able to stick with it despite challenges. What to tie your creative ideas to in order to gain momentum. To check out my Loving Your Leaders...

It’s a lot easier to spot a false front in others than to spot when you are putting one on yourself. Listen to discover: What a false front is and why we use false fronts. Examples of false fronts that you might be using yourself. How false fronts keep you from growing into your leadership. How to drop and show up without false fronts. To check out my Loving Your Leadership Life™ membership, go to...

Sometimes we get stuck creating the same results in our lives with our default thinking and automatic responses. What might happen if we engage the power of pause more often? Listen to discover: How our human GPS can help us to get better results. Why we keep thinking the same and getting the same results. When to pause and how to access clarity with a simple question. Why practice is important to...

When our kids are young, their window of possibility is wide open. As toddlers, they are so present and are focused on being. They don’t know about impossibility. But as we age, as we experience life, we start to be more past focused and less open to possibility. Listen to discover: The natural state a child is born with and the opposite state a child can adopt later in life. What happens when a c...

Changes and uncertainty are common in today’s world. Without practicing emotional management, you can end up leading through change and uncertainty from a reactive state. Being able to calm your nervous system gives you a much better chance to respond more consciously instead. Listen to discover: The differences between reacting and responding. How to lead from your higher self in a crisis. What h...

Creating psychological wellness has emerged as a top leadership trend for the future of work. I say that doing so starts with leaders elevating their own self-care. It’s time to create a self-care ripple effect that is way overdue. Are you in? Listen to discover: Why we have to change the way we think about self-care. What a life wheel is and what it can do for you. What it takes to create a cultu...

We are getting bombarded daily with new information, with change, with new technologies. No wonder it’s so hard to keep up with everything! If you are looking to increase focus and creativity and/or to improve planning and decision making, there are ways to expand thinking and innovation in your organization or with your team or for yourself. Listen to discover: Where much more complex information...

Have you ever found yourself consumed by a difficult person? Not sure how to handle that one person taking up all of your time and energy? Let's go over what you can do right here. Listen to discover: Why it seems that all you can think about is this person who has gotten under your skin. What a manual is and how we all have them. What happens to you when you assign a label to someone. Why it help...

Have you ever felt like you don’t recognize yourself anymore? It might be that you have been creating a disconnection to yourself. Getting back home to you is what it will take to reconnect. Listen to discover: What and who inspired this topic in the first place. What outside in thinking is and how it can lead to you disconnecting from yourself. How to think in a way that keeps you connected to yo...

Does it feel like you are phoning in your leadership? It might just be your ego doing the driving. See how you can get back to your core to lead from your true self. Listen to discover: What spirit driven leadership is. The differences between leading from your ego and leading from your spirit. Why sometimes it feels lonely to lead. Why it’s important to notice the energy you are carrying as the l...

It’s time for a pick me up. Let’s talk about filling your purpose cup. When it’s full, you will have the world by the tail. Ready to find out how to fill your purpose cup? Listen to discover: What mattering is and the implication it has on you and your team. What happens when you lead from a full cup of purpose. How you can help others see that they matter and that what they do matters to others....

More than half of our workforce is either unhappy, stressed, and/or sick in the workplace. Eckhart Tolle says, “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.” It turns out that this is the foundation for managing your thoughts and emo...

When tragedies keep happening, it can seem as if it is out of our hands and that there is nothing we can do. Today, I asked myself what I can do in response to the Nashville school shooting. Here is the response that immediately came to mind. It turns out that it is something we can all do. Listen to discover: Why feeling like you don’t belong strikes up fear and the fight or flight response. How...

There are obvious time and progress stealers that we all know about but what about the hidden time and progress stealers? Where do those come from? What are they? Listen to discover: Why working on your mindset around time can be more valuable than buying that new planner. How our natural resistance to change keeps us from taking on tasks that will actually move the needle. Why the very actions th...

Have you heard of slipstreaming? It has to do with getting to your desired destination quicker and with less energy. It’s a bit of a mind bend and great food for thought. Listen to discover: What slipstream means and how it can be a huge time hack for you. Some examples of slipstreaming and what is involved. How you can make an impact on the future by helping others to slipstream. What invisible d...

Sometimes it takes a good look at where your time has gone to determine how to make better use of the present and the time that is coming.  While planning makes a difference, it is really your mindset and your willingness to look at what is going on beneath the surface that will result in the outcomes you desire. Listen to discover: What a life calendar is and how it can help you&nb...

We will always experience peaks and valleys in our leadership but sometimes we resist the hard parts. When you accept them as part of the journey, you will benefit from what you learn about yourself in your leadership evolution. It really is about who you become in the journey and the impact you can make as a leader. How we resist our own leadership when we resist challenges. Why we need both the...

It’s only human to dread going back to work after having some time off but what if you didn’t give away your free time to thoughts of “impending doom?” How you think about it makes all the difference. I took a deep dive to find out why this happens and how we can enjoy calm and presence without carrying around the weight of work. Listen to discover: • How to know whether or not you are truly check...