Make 2021 an intentional year
The secret to presenting well
The secret to presenting well For the past few years, I’ve done a lot of training at schools, businesses and conferences. When I first started, I spent hours, days, weeks getting ready for the event. I researched. I practiced. I researched some more. I rewrote the material. I practiced… You get the idea. Sometimes…
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Girls and Emotional Literacy
Girls and Emotional Literacy It’s not just boys who have trouble with emotional literacy. While boys may have trouble recognizing emotions and expressing them in appropriate ways, girls are more likely to recognize and name emotions, but stuff negative feelings. Girls express positive emotions in an effort to please others but save expression of negative…
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Helping Boys Develop an Emotional Vocabulary I’ve written a lot of posts on kids and emotions. There are several reasons for this. In many ways, emotions rule our thoughts and our actions, yet very little is taught about how to manage emotions in a positive way. Most of us simply learn that we need to…
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Resistance I often talk with clients about things they want to stop doing or habits they want to break: stop spending so much time on Facebook stop worrying so much stop being depressed stop neglecting their business Here’s the problem with trying to stop doing anything: what you resist, will persist… Let me show you…
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