Category: Balance

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Always Separate Praise and Feedback: Why ‘Sandwiching’ Doesn’t Work

Sandwiching: A technique used by supervisors to try to soften feedback: Scrape up a few nice words of appreciation to begin with

This image shows an ostrich standing outdoors in a fenced, grassy area under a bright blue sky. The ostrich has its entire head and neck buried inside a blue metal barrel labeled “SAND.”

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Deliberate Ignorance aka The Ostrich Effect: Friend or Foe?

We live in an era of incredible access to… Information? Data? Misinformation? We are ceaselessly bombarded, messaged constantly… often with meaningless content

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The Joyous Release of Measured Caring

I care. I care deeply about delivering quality to my Customers, service excellence day in and day out. I want to be

The path is interrupted by uncertainty. Uncertainty, threat and danger. Resolve the problem before continuing your journey. Bring a gap.

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The Positive Power of Negative Capability

Negative capability is the capacity to tolerate ambiguity and contradiction—to dwell in not-knowing—without rushing to impose logic, closure, or certainty. It’s an

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Opening Minds; Side Stepping the ‘Backfire Effect’

If you want to change someone’s mind, their mind must be open to change and, as much as we humans like to

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Nothing can be Everything

We court trouble when we ask any one thing to be our everything—one job to give meaning, one person to make us

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Talked To Your Shadow Lately?

In Jungian psychology, our shadow is the unconscious parts of ourselves that we repress: weaknesses, fears, unacknowledged or unhealed wounds, desires we

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The Precious Gift of Noticing

When we actually see a person… not as a function, label, or bit player in a supporting role but as another human

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The Secret lies in the Feeling

Is there anyone reading this that does not desire peace of mind? Harmonious relationships? To love and be loved? Have more energy?

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Have You Created Your Inner Sanctuary?

Life can be challenging and chaotic. Unfortunately, we can’t magically whisk ourselves beachside to Tahiti for instant stress release. And you know

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What are Your Centering Phrases?

Centering phrases are anything that speaks to us, calming words we use to call forth our best selves in times of need