Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine this, you’re at a party, and you witness your partner having a lively conversation with a stranger that’s been going on for an hour now. How do you feel? The instinctive response to such a situation, for many, is that of a threat. Along with that, many have feelings of self-doubt and insecurities, eventually …
Reading Time: 2 minutes When you’re a smart and creative person like you, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to innovate things right out of the gate. We want to be original, share our brilliance, and do the thing our own way.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beginning a new habit can be frustrating because we don’t see immediate progress. Let’s be honest – we LOVE to see the fruit of our labor right away. I’m going to teach you a little trick to starting a new habit AND keeping it. Let’s dive in.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I got to a point with my videos where I spent more time on the prepping, rehearsing and editing than I did on the actual content! When I ditched a video because I had worn the same shirt twice, I realized something HAD to change.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Have you ever disappointed yourself? Disappointment is something we all experience, especially when we are trying to create new habits and routines. Maybe you’re like me, and you’ve been nailing your new habit. And then, all of a sudden you missed a day. Oh man! It’s SO easy to immediately beat ourselves up over it. But what if we didn’t?
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a common question amongst my fellow self-help junkies that essentially boils down to this: I’ve read all the books, I’ve done the seminars, I’ve listened to all the podcasts… why haven’t I seen the changes happen in my life? Let me tell you a quick story… The Young Man and the Master Carpenter There …
Reading Time: 2 minutes In part one of this series on provocative conversations we discussed mining small talk for conversational gold, in the second part we explored how to find topics with universal appeal, in this section we will get a bit more playful with some conversational games you can play to increase engagement… Technique the Third — Conversational …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes In part one of this 3-part series on creating meaningful and provocative conversations, we talked about what makes a meaningful conversation so meaningful. We also explored how to mine your small talk for conversational gold, using a values-exploration technique. In this section, we will discuss how you can create a shared connection when the …
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Defend Your Conversations From Boredom We’ve all been in boring conversations. Those conversations that feel like a pair of smartphones talking to one another. Maybe it’s new people without a lot of common ground, or maybe it is just very surface-level topics, but whatever the reason, you just can’t seem to make a genuine connection. …
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Reading Time: 7 minutes 7 Steps To Go From Beginner To Competent Ever since the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell came out, the 10,000-hour rule has become a part of the common parlance. If you want to be world-class at something, you have to put in your 10,000 hours, right? But what if you don’t want to be world-class? …
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