Self Awareness

What Have You Learned?

What Have You Learned?

Each year, we learn and grow. This comes from our day-to-day experiences in life and on the job. However, it is also something that can be more intentional and cultivated. I think it’s interesting to do an end of year “learning” audit. Going back and documenting the...

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Spiritual Wellbeing

Spiritual Wellbeing

We are nearly through the 8-dimensions of wellbeing. Today, we cover #7 – spiritual. Spiritual wellbeing is a connection with both our inner selves and something bigger than ourselves. We each define these connections differently. Last year, there were five dimensions...

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Emotional Wellbeing

Emotional Wellbeing

Today, we are on day 6 of 8 digging into the dimensions of wellbeing. Our focus is emotional wellbeing. From joy and excitement to sadness and anger, we have likely felt all the emotions this past year. Some might have been short lived while others may have stuck with...

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Social Wellbeing

Social Wellbeing

Our fourth dimension of wellbeing is social wellbeing. The interactions we have with others. Often, when we think of our social lives, we think about our close family and friends. They are at our social core. Yet, fostering those relationships further out on our...

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Intellectual Wellbeing

Intellectual Wellbeing

The last two days we have covered occupational and financial wellbeing. Today, our focus shifts to intellectual – bridging across our professional and personal lives. Occupational wellbeing is focused on the job(s) we do to make an income. Our intellectual wellbeing...

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Financial Wellbeing – 6 Considerations

Financial Wellbeing – 6 Considerations

Last week, I was listening to an episode of the Next Big Idea Daily. (12 minutes) Jamila Souffrant was highlighting her book. Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness. The concept that really connected with me were the...

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Filters for Wellbeing

Filters for Wellbeing

I’m an advocate for considering the 8 dimensions of wellbeing. Occupational. Emotional. Social. Intellectual. Physical. Environmental. Spiritual. Financial. We can look at these 8 areas of our life through many different filters. Here are just a few examples: Five...

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Pluto Moving to Aquarius

Pluto Moving to Aquarius

Today, I’m going to highlight a topic I will call a hobby – astrology. When I was in my teens, my girlfriend and I would buy our horoscope books each year. In the morning before school, we would discuss the predictions for the day. Since then, I loosely follow through...

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Agency & Autonomy at Work

Agency & Autonomy at Work

This week, we’ve been covering the topics of agency and autonomy in our lives. The focus today is how these qualities impact our work and how we can maximize. Autonomy We will start with autonomy – the size of the invisible box that defines our ability to make...

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Shaping Our Agency & Autonomy

Shaping Our Agency & Autonomy

As I’ve been reading and writing about agency & autonomy, I’ve started to wonder if our early life experiences have an impact on our beliefs as adults. If our parents, caregivers, teachers, coaches, romantic partners, and first bosses reduced our autonomy, did...

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Agency, Autonomy and the 8 Dimensions of Wellbeing

Agency, Autonomy and the 8 Dimensions of Wellbeing

We have discussed how autonomy and agency connect to happiness. Then, we dove into the differences between the two. Today, let’s look at how they come into play with each of the 8 dimensions of wellbeing. Autonomy We’ll start with autonomy or the size of the invisible...

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Expanding on Agency & Autonomy

Expanding on Agency & Autonomy

Yesterday, we reviewed some research that linked autonomy to happiness. This led to defining the difference between the related concepts of agency. As we defined yesterday, “Both imply a level of independence, self-direction, and self-determination to shape...

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Drivers of Happiness

Drivers of Happiness

There was an Inc. article back in the spring that intrigued me. The title was “Your Overall Happiness, Well-Being, and Even Financial Future Come Down to 1 Simple Word, Backed by Science. And no, that word isn’t money.” The article was full of links and interesting...

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Roles of the MeEO

Roles of the MeEO

A MeEO realizes their role is to be the Chief Executive Officer of their life & career. They are in charge and accountable to the “Board of Directors” of their choice. I searched for the “Top 10” responsibilities of a CEO and adapted the list for the MeEO. The...

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Our Superhero Self

Our Superhero Self

Throughout our life and career, we will take hits to our confidence. A project gone awry. Being laid off. Overlooked for a promotion. Rejection. Negative feedback. The list is endless. Depending on the scale of the hit, our confidence can waver for a day or years. On...

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Are You a Book or a Tree?

Are You a Book or a Tree?

Gretchen Rubin has started posing this question: “Are you a book with chapters or a tree with roots?” – Gretchen Rubin She is trying to learn more about how people look at the phases of their life. Do you move from chapter to chapter or branch out from your roots? To...

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Routine-Quake

Routine-Quake

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about lifequakes in a post about job loss. Lifequakes are disruptive life moments that can be negative or positive. A few negative examples include job loss, death of a loved one, or divorce. Positive quakes can include having a baby,...

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Balanced

Balanced

Work-Life balance. Harmony. Integration. Lots of words have been used. Much debate has been had. Is balance possible? Balance is not only possible, it’s a fact. There is balance in your life. Every day we each have 24 hours. List how the last 24 were spent. Create...

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Are You Procrastinating?

Are You Procrastinating?

I recently listened to a Marie Forleo podcast episode about procrastination. Some of the stats she shared were shocking: The average person spends 218 minutes a day or 55 days a year procrastinating. And procrastination costs the US economy 70 billion a year! She also...

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Overcoming Weakness

Overcoming Weakness

I’ve been thinking about weaknesses lately. For those who know me, I prefer the Gallup CliftonStrengths approach to strength-based growth. In fact, when I do talk about weaknesses, I often mention “strengths in overdrive”. Because when our strengths are in overdrive...

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A Great Procrastination Tip!

A Great Procrastination Tip!

I’ve read and listened to so many ideas on procrastination. Today, I heard a tip on an episode of Optimal Living Daily that was brilliant and new to me. The concept is called “The Habit Rule of Half” and was developed by Anthony Ongaro. You can read all the details in...

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