Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Caregiver Burnout is Beatable
Successful caregivers beat caregiver burnout with the right mindset, prioritization, values alignment, and leadership skills to flourish.
Caregiver Support
Embrace Uncertainty for Good Decision-Making
When you accept uncertainty, you can make decisions that match your core values and you’ll feel good about no matter how things turn out.
Life Fulfillment and Purpose
Keeping the Streak Alive
Why are we obsessed with maintaining streaks? When you know that, you can harness the power of streak dynamics to create new habits.
Executive and Nonprofit Leadership
Four Ways Empathetic Leadership becomes Self-Defeating
Empathetic leaders think they’re protecting their employees, but going too far in that direction can lead to unintended consequences they don’t expect.
Life Fulfillment and Purpose
We Don’t Know What We Missed, Only What We Experience
We get so wrapped up in expectation and evaluation that we can forget to just let the experience of life wash over us.
Courage
Self-Confidence in Two Quotes
Self-confidence is a feeling based on facts, not a fact based on feelings. A comfort zone is a box with imaginary walls. You can re-imagine those walls.
Life Fulfillment and Purpose
You’ve Got This! And Other Small Wisdoms
We gave away handwritten scrolls containing small wisdoms at a senior resource fair last week. This is why, and how it went.
Resilience
The Expert, Derailed and Recovering
When I got derailed this morning, I reminded myself of three facts that helped me get back on track. Good thing I teach resilience.
Executive and Nonprofit Leadership
Strategic Planning Should Build the Future, not Describe it
Strategic Planning is fun for board members but too often results in a plan no one reads. The problem is in the strategic planning process.
Executive and Nonprofit Leadership
How to Find Hidden Dysfunction
People normalize hidden dysfunction to the point that it feels like the way things are supposed to work. Here are examples and how to spot them.