How To Ask Powerful Questions As a leader within your organization, you spend a substantial amount of your time asking your team, clients, or even board members questions. Using better, powerful questions will help you bond with your team and further unlock your potential as a leader. Asking effective questions is an art. While it may seem like an easy read more
How An Executive Coach Can Make You More Successful No matter what growth stage your company is in, leadership challenges can overwhelm your daily task list — and an executive coach can help. Among your staff, you see frequent communication breakdowns. You and your co-founders feel out of sync, and maybe disagreements escalate more than usual. Mostly, you feel an overwhelming amount of stress. read more
How To Work Remotely and Lead Teams Effectively The world is an uncomfortable place right now. A global umbrella of fear, uncertainty, and anxiety has opened up above us. However, life must go on. It may not be our everyday normal, but it’s important that we try to make it as normal as possible as we all hunker-down together, but separate. One of 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 Create Space for Healthy Boundaries WE ALL NEED CLARITY AND HEALTHY BOUNDARIES TO STRUCTURE OUR LIVES AND FOCUS ON WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT. Boundaries keep us from straying from our priorities so we can say, “Yes” without resentment and “No” without regret. We live in a very busy world. Like many people I know, I always want to maximize my read more
How to Break Free from Fear Sometimes when things go wrong, fear takes over and we are unable to move forward. We get stuck anticipating the worst-case scenario. Mistakes and failures can drag us down unless we take action to move forward and break through the barriers of fear. Success takes discipline, resilience, and self-awareness. Here are 7 ways to get unstuck 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
I Travel the World for a Living: Confessions of a Digital Nomad Have you ever considered traveling the world to explore beauty across the globe, meet new people, and still earn a living? Then I suggest you try living as a digital nomad. What is a digital nomad? It’s really just a new way of saying you are a location-independent entrepreneur, with the ability to travel and work online wherever you read more
When Stuff Goes Wrong While Traveling Solo If you haven’t done this already, I highly recommend doing it at least once. Go pack a bag and travel the world SOLO. It’s the most enriching thing you can do for yourself. If solo travel has taught me anything, it’s these three things: You can deeply immerse yourself in a journey and go with read more
4 Insights I Gained from a Silent Meditation Retreat Last week, I went to a silent meditation retreat in a small monastery on top of a hill, here in Thailand: a total digital detox to enrich my body, mind, and spirit. My electronics were confiscated upon arrival, and I couldn’t have been happier to hand them over. When we get rid of our gadgets, stop read more
6 Ways to Create Healthy Habits That Keep You Motivated It’s easier to do something every day than it is to remember to do it every other day. Treat those healthy habits like brushing your teeth. We all know about the importance of brushing our teeth. It is vital to our ‘overall health’ and let’s not forget that it is not very pleasant to speak to read more
It’s Okay to be Frustrated: 4 Inspirational Tips to Get Back on Track I’m not one of those people for whom things are easy. I don’t get lucky, and nothing in my life tends to just fall into place. I work hard at everything I do. My life is more of an obstacle course than anything else. I don’t know why. My guess would be that a lifetime of nomadic 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
Do You Have a Business Coach to Help You Hone Your Creativity? Here’s Why You Need One! When traveling, I get to connect with old friends, make new ones, and learn more than I could possibly imagine. Traveling is my catalyst for change. I call it my change agent. It is what feeds my spirit, sparks new ideas and fuels my drive. Follow me on Instagram to see pictures! I credit my travel, sense of read more
How to Stay Healthy and Productive While Traveling Stay Healthy and Happy on the Road with My Top 3 Tips Ever wonder what is in my suitcase? It’s not what you think. I travel light, but I have some interesting items in my luggage. As you know, I’m a sucker for the open road. I am not, however, a fan of feeling displaced, travel-worn, and read more
What It Feels Like to Live Between Worlds Everywhere and Nowhere. I’m what they call a “third culture kid”. I grew up in different countries, cultures, and socioeconomic worlds. It’s why I feel I belong everywhere and nowhere. Let me try to explain what that’s like. My passport country is not where I live. I may still speak the language, but I certainly don’t read more
