Managing Emotions

How to Keep a Good Relationship Good!

How do you keep a good relationship in good shape?  Think about your longer term relationships that are still satisfying.  How have the two of you built and maintained a strong bond?  What have YOU done that’s helped or hindered the health of the relationship.  Good relationships are very valuable and a big contributor to …

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Quarantining Negativity in The New Normal

Quarantining isn’t easy especially when you engage in negativity. Doom and gloom conversation is on the rise. It’s making us feel worse. It’s time to lock down our discouraging and depressing thoughts or quarantine negativity! I’m excited to share a concept I read in the book “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling.  He says “Things can continue …

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The Best Way to Ask for (and Get) What You Want

In Business and Personal Relationships if you don’t ask for what you want, you probably won’t get it. That sounds sad and why would you settle for or give up on what will make you happier.  There are many reasons why.  That’s not what this blog is about.  Instead I want to share a success …

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Power of The Pause

We are going through a stressful time.  Power of The Pause is an amazing self care tool.  It will help you manage stress or anxiety and it is also helpful as a relationship and sales or business building tool.  There are many benefits and the cost is a small amount of time.  When pausing you …

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It Changed My Life, I Swear!

Tracking my feelings in A Feelings Journal changed my life. I swear!   My favorite motto or MarGOism is… “First Feel, Second Solve”.  To go along with this motto many years ago I started a Feelings Journal. Why did I do this?  My life at the time wasn’t going well.  This was around 2009 or …

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Make Room For Your Feelings!

With the spreading nature of the corona virus you are confronted daily with difficult decisions.  What is the right thing to do or not do?  It’s stressful to be in this type of ethical dilemma.  Too much stress is not healthy and over time will weaken your immune system.    As an emotions management expert …

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Change and Loss Travel Together!

When you make a change you give up what you are familiar with in exchange for something new and hopefully better.  It takes time to adjust partly because of the losses involved. Even if you are excited about the change expect to flow in and out of good and bad feelings. Recently my mother at …

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How To Avoid Working with A Difficult Personality

Whether you are looking for clients or a new employer you want to avoid someone who has a difficult personality.  I’ve been in private practice for many years, first as a psychotherapist and later as a personal, business and career coach.  I know the importance of having good qualifying questions and especially ones designed to …

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Listening to Yourself and Self Care

How to Become Better at Listening to Yourself

Listening to yourself is absolutely an art.  There is no fool proof formula that you can follow.  You and I know how important it is for creating a better life and yet we  either don’t do it or don’t do it very well.  How can you get better at listening to yourself? I’ve been working …

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Getting Things Off Your Chest, Can Change Your Life!

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say, that we know are important to say in order to feel better.  Why do we keep things buried inside and fret for weeks, months or years before sharing them.  I can think of many reasons and I’m sure you can too! Recently, I was meeting with …

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Decision Making and Recalculating like a GPS!

When your GPS starts recalculating it means you made a wrong turn.  It immediately reroutes you to get back on the right road.  It is annoying and sometimes embarrassing to hear “recalculating” coming out of your smart phone.  It is also nice to have the help. I worked on a second book for several months …

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How To Bring Out The Best In Others

Bringing out the best in others is something I naturally do.  A client many years ago wrote a testimonial… “Margo sees the best in others and helps them see it too!”  Made me feel really good.  Then I thought, how do I actually do it?  After much thought, this is what I came up with… I …

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