Avoid Communication Breakdowns With These 5 Powerful Conversation Tools When embarking on a difficult conversation, you may fear how it will end up and how the other person will react could derail the progress you need to make. However, leading a powerful conversation with particular questions, and taking specific steps before talking, can set both you and your team up to have a conversation read more
How To Ask Powerful Questions Asking effective questions is an art. While it may seem like an easy thing to do, understanding how to ask powerful questions will unlock new answers and insights. So what do powerful questions look like? The best questions showcase active listening. Powerful questions are phrased as open-ended inquiries to help the person answering. Can you read more
Maintaining a Sharp Memory Shouldn’t Be Hard Psychology professor Nora Newcombe explained that people start to form long-term memories around 2-years-old, whether they’re specific details or emotional recollection. Everyone relies on this cognitive function at a very young age until, frankly, the day we die. Although you don’t have full control of how your brain evolves with age, you can ensure read more
How to Get Rid of Negative Energy to Find Joy Every now and then, we come across some weird vibes. Your environment just doesn’t feel right. The energy is off. It feels heavy and dark. Maybe you can’t put your finger on why, but being in your home, office, hotel room, or wherever: it gives you a bad feeling. Sometimes people bring bad vibes into read more
Why Procrastination Could be the Key to Success and Productivity Procrastination is bad, right? …or is it actually good? Try thinking of procrastination as practicing the art of managing delay. It gets a bad rep. I think people mistake procrastination for self-sabotage—taking actions that intentionally hinder our progress—when procrastination is simply inaction. In fact, putting off decisions or actions in your daily life can produce read more
What I Do When I Feel Defeated (…and It’s Not Making Lemonade) No matter what we do, life will be challenging at times. It will hand us lemons. And making lemonade might not always be the best choice. Ugh – it sucks when we take a sudden trip to unrelenting hell. All we can do is get through it and grow stronger. Sometimes it’s not even worth read more
10 Ways to be More Mindful in Your Daily Life “Being present” is a state of awareness in which we can practice unbiased and honest reflection. I aim to live wholeheartedly – and this requires me to have the ability to not get lost in my thoughts. Learning the art of being present gives you the ability to learn how to pause before taking action, so you can return to read more
Violence against Women is not a Women’s Issue, it’s a Men’s Issue! Witnessing immature male peer culture, its function as a breeding ground for aggression, and the silent consent within its construct are great concerns of mine. What gets me upset about this topic is the reaction of men, the lack of action, and the prevalence of silent approval. Many men are showing very strong reactions to it, and many voice their disapproval to read more
