IMPACTBANK: The Kickass Koach

WellBeing is often a product of our choices and actions. 

Act, Measure and Evaluate; Adjust and Reiterate.

In this episode I share a very brief story that reminded me this week about how we benefit from asking the dumbest question when we feel overwhelmed with a problem

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WellBeing is key to both progress (success) and happiness (self-actualization).

In this episode I speak to how we may consider reflecting differently on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

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Expressing affection for and even respect for another, expands feelings of well-being in you and them.

Again I was inspired by the drama in Canada about the Convoy that has since left Ottawa. What drew otherwise law-abiding and reasonable Canadians to engage in sending a message. What attracted others, who wouldn't participate, to quietly support. What are the lessons to leaders?

I refer to fringe in this episode. I am referencing the most hateful elements of this convoy: the misogynist, white supremacist, anti-semite and homophobic elements that cloaked themselves in the pain and anxiety of others. Those openly calling for the over-through of a democratically elected government.

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Our well-being is expanded by our experience of agency.

This week I was inspired by observing, from a distance, the "Freedom" Convoy that has a few locations across Canada. As I post this I hear a few have been cleared but still the "movement" stands as an example of wherein a greater sense of agency may have made all the difference.

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Our well-being is about knowing and choosing our priority and ensuring every decision and choice we make is aligned with this priority.

In this episode I share how a client when completing her medical training learned how to stand up for her priority against a system that wanted her to comply with the hierarchy. She believes she is a better doctor now for having done so.

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Our values, whether core or acquired, are the source of  and means to our individual and collective well-being.

#WellBeing will spring from our willingness to discover explore and live up to our own values in a mature way.

Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community.

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When a leader uses certainty to manage behaviour, it often back-fires. 

WellBeing requires that leaders inform and engage rather than manipulate with certainty when navigating crisis.

Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community.

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For what are you willing to risk your health?

When we realize our well-being is far beyond the absence of illness, we will do the work to foster the habits and patterns in which it will thrive.

In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating illness and learning the value in nurturing well-being in a balanced way.

Hear about my well-being pie and try out your own. 

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Emotions will not be denied. Emotions are like debt, if ignored, they will grow more difficult to manage in time.

To experience #wellbeing we do well to learn how to harness them in a healthy way.

In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating negative emotions over the past month to demonstrate an intervention for well-being. 

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So much has been imposed on us these past two years and for good reason: collective health and well-being. Perhaps it will do us all well to take charge of our own well-being as a focus in 2022. What each of us needs may be different and when we adapt our approach for our needs we feel deeply empowered. Join me to make this shift for yourself. Suggested reflection: FOR WHAT AM I OPTIMIZING?

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"It is time to change our attitude!" When we choose our attitude we can choose to expand out grit.

Our capacity to persist is expanded when we focus primarily on progress - one foot in front of another. Together we've got this.

2021 theme: resilience
December topic: GRIT
Weekly Focus: interventions for Grit
Reflection Question: where do I start? How will developing my grit help me navigate 2022 more effectively

Our individual and collective well-being may be the most important focus in 2022. 

2021 theme: resilience
December topic: GRIT
Weekly Focus: well-being
Reflection Question:  how would strengthening my overall wellbeing increase my grit, thereby my success and accomplishments in 2022?

Getting lost may be a signal of our GRIT, and it may be exactly what we need.

2021 theme: resilience
December topic: GRIT
Weekly Focus: lost
Reflection Question: what role does passion play in your LEVEL OF Grit?

As a strength, GRIT is right up there, predicting effectiveness. What is it and why do I want it?

2021 theme: resilience
December topic: GRIT
Weekly Focus: a strength
Reflection Question:  what's Grit and what would it offer me as I prepare for 2022?

My focus this week is on learning to use our Character Strengths as leverage to make changes that benefit our life with a well-crafted intervention.

2021 theme: resilience
November topic: Character
Weekly Focus: an intervention
Reflection Question:  what if I had an intervention to help nurture and apply character strengths for greater well being for myself and those I serve or serve with?

Knowing and learning to recognize your Values In Action, is one way to ensure you perform at your very best.

2021 theme: resilience
November topic: Character
Weekly Focus: Shadows
Reflection Question:  character strengths have shadows; what impact would it make if you recognized yours?

When we know and use our signature strengths in a healthy way we become the person we want to be to achieve our goals.

2021 theme: resilience
November topic: Character
Weekly Focus: Signature Character Strengths
Reflection Question: what if, before executing our plan, we explored who to be while doing so?

Our character strengths result in certain habitual patterns. So too in organizations and societies?

2021 theme: resilience
November topic: Character
Weekly Focus: the habits of character
Reflection Question:  how are my character strengths contributing to the outcomes I seek and, possibly more importantly, those I wish to eliminate?

What if we reduce the amount those in power micromanage and focus systemic efforts on macro-management?

Do we hide behind the systemic or the structural, seeing it as the responsibility of someone else?