Self Awareness

       
Why Your Routines Aren’t Working (and How to Fix Them)
You’ve ordered the planner, set your goals, made the checklist, and decided you are finally ready to “stay consistent” with…
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The Pace of Calm Leadership: Leading When the World Feels Fast
Culture and society tell us that leaders should always be loud, upbeat, make decisions quickly, always have the answers. But…
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Nervous System Resets for a Rooted & Calm Life
You know those days when you wake up with your heart already racing because of all that’s already on your…
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The Enneagram and Working Genius: Connecting the Dots
What if the Enneagram and understanding your Working Genius together could bring greater self-awareness and clarity so you could live…
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Unlock Your Strengths with Working Genius
Working Genius and Stress: Why It Matters You leave work after a long day completely drained and realize nothing you…
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Enneagram Insights for Stressed Leaders
How Self-Awareness Creates Calm You walk into work and sit down at your desk. You open your email and can’t…
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5 Practical Ways to Support Quiet Team Members (and Why It Makes You a Better Leader)
Quiet Doesn’t Mean Less In many businesses, companies, and organizations, loud = leadership. But what if the quietest voices have…
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Self-Leadership for the Quietly Powerful: How Introverts and HSPs Can Thrive Without Burning Out
Does this sound familiar? You skip lunch and never get to your tasks because your day is full of meetings…
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Are You an Introvert or Highly Sensitive or Both?
Are you ever accused of being “too sensitive?” As a child were you told “you’re just too sensitive!”? Maybe you…
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Are You an Introvert, Extrovert, or Ambivert? (And Why it Matters for How You Lead Yourself and Others)
Thriving doesn’t come from doing more—it comes from knowing yourself better. We live in a world that celebrates the loudest…
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Self-Awareness Tools That Work: How the Enneagram & Working Genius Lower Stress and Clarify Our Strengths
When it comes to self-awareness, no single tool gives us the full picture — but when we bring the right…
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The Secret Power of Simple Routines
I tend to think of good habits and routines more as rhythms and practices. They help ground us when life…
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Tiny Triggers Quietly Draining Your Energy
Our days can be filled with small events and interactions that seem insignificant. When we think about how they add…
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What’s the Cost of Hiding Your Strengths?
Do you ever catch yourself playing small? I am going through a group coaching program right now with my coach.…
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The Good Neighbor Podcast
I recently had the opportunity to be a guest on the Good Neighbor Podcast from Village Centre Press. Thank you,…
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7 Ways to Manage Energy Drains
Energy drains can add a lot of stress to our days. When they become chronic over time they can lead…
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You Can’t Lead Others Well Without Leading Yourself Well
I’ve seen companies and organizations push “leadership” with their volunteers and managers, but it was always about leading others. I…
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What Are Your Top 3 Core Values?
What goals and dreams are you reaching for in 2024? Do they align with you core values? ⁠ ⁠ Landing…
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How Do You Find Your Purpose?
I’ve thought a lot about purpose over the past decade. I guess when you hit your late 30s & 40s…
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Do You Have a Practice of Rest?
Do you struggle to just stop and rest? I don’t mean resting at bedtime each night. Intentionally slowing down and…
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Using the Enneagram to Grow as a Leader
The most accurate “personality system” (for lack of a better description) to help you grow as a leader and overcome…
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Setting Boundaries with Work
One of the things I’ve learned in my personal growth is to let go of what I can’t control. To…
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You Don’t Have to Earn Rest
Maybe you need the reminder this week: You do not have to earn rest. You do not have to earn…
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Why Do the Work of the Enneagram?
Self awareness and emotional intelligence are the top 2 indicators for success as a leader. But it’s not just about…
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Healthy Habits for Reaching Your Highest Potential
After I had been studying the Enneagram, mindset & personal growth several years ago I began to realize the powerful…
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Simple Mindfulness & Breathing Practices to Use During Your Day
Awareness of how I was living from the core fear and other core motivations of my Enneagram type was the…
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The Language We Use with Ourselves Matters
The words we use matter. It matters when we are speaking with another person, but the language we use with…
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Seeing the Different Perspectives of Others
Learning to see experiences and situations from the perspective of others is essential to living with peace and purpose. Whether…
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Pause. Breathe. Look Up. Find the Beauty.
I first heard this phrase from a fellow Enneagram coach who recommended reading K.J. Ramsey’s book The Lord is My…
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The Nuances in Our Language Can Effect Our Mindset
As I’ve worked with my coach over the past year I have tried to mindfully start making small shifts in…
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What Do You Want Most?
We’ve all thought about this question. Maybe we want to be further in our career. Maybe we want to be…
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Choosing Our Thoughts
Most people believe we can’t choose our thoughts. And while we may not be able to choose the thoughts we…
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The Robin in the Rain
As I’m building my coaching business I’m still working another job. My manager recently took another job. I fully support…
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My Top Books for Learning How to Cultivate Peace & Calm in Your Life
I grew up hearing and reading the scriptures that said “do not fear” and “cast all your cares” and “…
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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
Are you constantly thinking about what you should have done? Or could have done? Or would have done if x,y,…
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The Gift of You
Do you know you have gifts and strengths? Maybe no one has ever told you that, but I want you…
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A Practice of Rest
Sabbath. It’s something that became almost sacred to me during 2020. The world was so noisy and filled with so…
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Finding More Joy
Joy cannot be found outside of ourselves. It can only be found when we are following the way of Christ…
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Just Simply Be
Do we know how to just be? My contemplative book club just finished Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and in…
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In a Hurry
I was on my way home from work one recent Friday & traffic was heavier than usual. The university students…
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Why I Do What I Do
Do you ever feel like you are constantly struggling to hold on to your inner peace? Does it seem like…
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Intentionality Listens
I overheard part of a phone conversation at work yesterday and it got me to thinking about something. It also…
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Be Curious, Not Judgmental
“Be curious, not judgmental.” This quote is attributed to Walt Whitman. It seems to be mis-attributed from the research I’ve…
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See a Different Perspective
Over the past few years God has given me a passion and joy in learning about personalities and the different…
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Celebrate Their Wins
Earlier this week I found out a friend had something really good happen for them. I can’t share what exactly…
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