Professional Growth

How to Become Better at Saying What You Are Afraid to Say

You say you can’t and yet you know you can.  What does it take to say something you are afraid to say?  Do you believe the better person doesn’t get upset and if they do they pretend they aren’t.  I hope you agree that this sounds awful and certainly not authentic.  It makes it impossible …

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My NEW Website… Lemons into Lemonade!

After eight years it was time to take my website to the next level!  I contacted my web developer and we got to work right away.  She focused on the layout and visual side.  I had to come up with new content and make sure it was easy to understand how I help my clients.  …

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Why it’s Important to Brag about Yourself to Yourself!

Bragging gets a bad rap.  Even “humble” bragging doesn’t work well. You think you are being subtle but often others see it for what it is… bragging!  Humble Brag is to make an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement with the actual intention of drawing attention to something you are proud of. When you feel good …

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The Second Highest Reading Group and Self Esteem

In second grade I experienced something very upsetting… I didn’t get into the highest reading group.  Instead I was put into the second highest reading group.  I clearly remember it and that was close to sixty years ago.  Before that moment I felt smart and liked myself. After not at all.  My battle with low …

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Why We Need Emotional Support and How to Get More of It

Everyone needs emotional support and especially during difficult times.  Currently we are dealing with a high degree of uncertainty connected to the corona virus and upcoming election.   You can’t control what you don’t have control over.  This fact creates fear and anxiety.    Why do human beings need emotional support?  Why do some people …

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Six Steps to Resolving Inner Conflict

Unresolved inner conflicts wreak havoc on your physical and psychological well being.  They keep you from being at peace with yourself and having the satisfaction and success you seek.  Everyone deals with inner conflicts.  As they continue, sometimes for years, you become frustrated and eventually emotionally exhausted experiencing a variety of stress related conditions.  Inner …

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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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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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