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Clarity Through Visualization
The disciplined and courageous act of visualization echoes James Baldwin’s words of wisdom: “If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.” If you’ve been along…
Self-Compassion for Smarties: Your Resources for Further Exploration
This month, DRIVEN is asking you to explore Self-Compassion as a means of achieving Clarity. Some fundamentals of Self-Compassion that we’ve looked at in detail are Journaling, the Growth Mindset…
Can You Afford To Skimp On Self-Compassion?
To Gain Perspective, The Answer Is Obvious. Clarity, as it relates to the mind, is referred to as such for a good reason. Your level of clarity can either inform your perspective or distort it. In last month’s DRIVEN…
Dear Journal,...
Gaining Clarity Through Intentional Journaling. Is your interest piqued about the concepts I blogged about last week? Did you crack open a notebook and take a crack at Journaling? If you haven’t yet…
It’s January. Let’s Journal!
A brand-new decade begins a journey, which is best navigated with Clarity (my 2020 Word of the Year). What better way to provide that clarity than with documentation? As such, I’d like to clarify the…
DRIVEN’s Best Blog Articles of 2019, Part 1
Each week of the year, DRIVEN’s blog page is updated with a brand-new, relevant article relating to the business perspectives and advancement strategies encompassed within our mission to…
Deeper Insights: Resources For Releasing Your Limiting Beliefs
This month, DRIVEN is asking you to let your Limiting Beliefs rise to the surface, so you can address them instead of just shutting them down and ploughing through. Last week’s blog article and…
A Symptom of Something Deeper: Releasing Your Limiting Beliefs
Here you are in the final month of learning to Release what no longer serves you, and Re-Lease your life to serve you better. At the front end of this year, as I plotted the journey, I foreshadowed rounding out…
Deeper Insights: Resources For Releasing The Need To Please Others
Throughout November 2019, DRIVEN has been pushing back against the Need to Please Others, revealing the ways in which this compulsion can actually work against you. We published four…
A Shift In Attitude: Releasing The Need To Please Your Network
By always being a “Yes Person” or a “People Pleaser”, there’s one person who often gets left out in the cold: YOU! Have you ever stopped to examine the ways that saying “Yes” to your boss…
Traversing The Double-Edged Sword: On Releasing The Need To Please Others
Throughout 2019 I’ve been using DRIVEN’s blog page to explore with you the different mindsets, attitudes and actions that professionals get caught up in, but that no longer serve them. The goal has…
Deeper Insights: Resources For Releasing Judgment, Assumptions & Conclusions
Throughout October 2019, DRIVEN has been avoiding the temptation to Judge, Assume and Conclude, and inspiring you to take similar steps in your life and career. We published four articles and…
Up The Ladder of Conclusions: How Curiosity Can Bring You Back to Earth
Judgments, Assumptions and Conclusions are proven to place limits on your behavior and the behavior of others. Evaluations, by contrast, are objective in their nature, deigned to reveal what “is”, since…
Mindset Shift: Why Replacing Judgment With Evaluation is Critical
Did you happen to catch yourself judging others this past week? Have you thought to yourself or said to others, “You really should…” or “He’s just being…” or “Why can’t she just do it this way”? If your answer…
Drop The Judgment: A Look At Why We Assume, and How We Can Change
Once a person’s brain slips into judgment mode, their curiosity is doomed. The real power is in the choice to suspend judgment and let curiosity thrive. In my recent article The Right Way To Be…
The Right Way To Be Wrong
How to Release Judgment, Assumptions, & Conclusions. 2019 has been the year of “Release”! Each month, you are invited to intentionally cut loose what no longer serves you, and then…
Taming The Victor: How To Respond When The Other Person Needs To Be Right
Have you ever found yourself absolutely certain of something, only to find out later that you were totally off-base? This question, and others like it, are what we’ve been asking you to consider in our…
Pressure Points: Stress and Your Addiction To Being Right
Challenging yourself to resist the temptation to always be right, however admirable, is an arduous endeavor indeed. The sharper perspective and genuine curiosity necessary for such a task…
All The Answers: Releasing Your Addiction To Being Right
Looking back over the first two-thirds of 2019, we at DRIVEN have explored the various propensities and afflictions faced by professionals, and have considered how and why to release…
Deeper Insights: Resources to Help You Kick Anxiety and Stress
Throughout August 2019, DRIVEN has been gazing into the future— the place from which Anxiety, Stress and Overwhelm keep us unproductive in the present. We published three articles and…