This month we have been talking about boundaries. A great way to think about setting boundaries is to see it as defining your own behavior, not someone else’s. So, this … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Define Your OWN Behavior
Here’s your motivating thought for the week: Reprogram your thought process to make sure that you RESPOND rather than REACT. Reacting many times includes an emotional component. Responding means that … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Respond Rather than React
Here’s your challenge for the week: declare a boundary.
You don’t need to declare it to others (although that’s ok too), but I’m suggesting that you declare a boundary – just to yourself…
“NO” sounds so final. Negative. Unfriendly.”
Here’s an alternative…
Here’s your challenge for the week — For every meeting you attend, in person or virtual, ditch the PDA. Yes. Take it off the table. Put it on silent (you … Continue reading Monday Motivator: A “Challenging” Meeting Tip
Here’s your success challenge for the week: Assure that each topic in the meetings you lead or attend have answered these three questions before moving on to the next topic: … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Meeting Success
Here’s your challenge for the week. Do something to “zest up” one (or more) of the meetings you’ll attend this week. One of the best ways to do this, regardless of … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Zest Up Your Next Meeting
Here’s your weekly challenge: declare this to be a week in which you “cleanse” every file you open, whether it is paper or digital. Every time you’re in a file … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Declare a “file cleanse” week.
One of the best ways to build your network is to connect two people who need each others’ services. Or to connect one person to another whose services you recommend. … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Be a Connector
“The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer’s are … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Do You Need to be a Good Talker?
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.” –Dan Simmons, That’s just it. It takes talking with others to build relationships. Here’s your … Continue reading Monday Motivator: Want to Build Your Network?
