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These Essential Life Skills Aren’t Taught In K–12 School. Are You Using Them?

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Spirituality.

We must use our influence to spotlight some vital, yet under-utilized, essential life skills that truly make a difference in our quality of life. You are you, in part, because of what you were taught. While genetics play a huge role, our growth environment cannot be discounted. We learned basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills in K-12 school. Beyond learning essential life skills, such as hygiene and lawfulness, we were educated by how people (family, friends, authority figures, local community, and even the ruling government)  treated us — their words, actions, and attitudes created our map of the world and taught us how to be. 

If the sources for our education are sound, we flourish, even under adversity. However, if we’re not exposed to the following essential life skills, we’ll be overly anxious and won’t cope well. However, let’s acknowledge this…

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Life Coaching Business — 15 Stimulating Questions to Make Your Marketing Easier

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in ICF Mentor Coaching, Life Coaching, Private Practice Advice.

Make marketing your life coaching business stand out as a unique expression of yourself by answering these thought-provoking, inspirational questions.Is it your dream to start building a life coaching business that really helps people become the best version of themselves possible? That’s great! I wholeheartedly recommend it because I absolutely love coaching my clients!

What I didn’t love at first, and what you might struggle with, is the marketing aspect. But if you want clients, you have to let them know you’re available to help them. You also want to attract the right clients so you have to make yourself stand out as different, allowing your prospective clients to see why working with you is a good fit.

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Multipotenialites Rejoice! The Path to Success Doesn’t Require Specialization

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Stepping Forward.

Your path to success must adapt to how you’re wired. You CAN pursue your many passions if you learn to channel your energy into all of them coherently.Everyone wants to be on the path to success. It’s exhilarating that we each get to identify what success means for ourselves, and then we get to create the path we travel to get there. That means we have endless possibilities. And if you’re like me, you’re excited to try all of them! But that can lead to problems…

Unless we’re independently wealthy, we need to make a living to support ourselves. So that brings us crashing back to earth. We have to narrow our focus and specialize or master one craft/job/skill, so we become indispensable and in demand for life, right? That’s what we’ve been told.

If, at this point, you’re feeling a bit frustrated, keep reading, because this article will break wide open that stereotypical way of thinking about the path to success.

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Have Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses? Time to Use This Secret Weapon!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Mindfulness, Stepping Forward.

Your strengths become your weaknesses when you mindlessly hold onto behaviors, even good behaviors, that don’t match or help the situation you’re in.This may startle you, but many of the excellent behaviors that help women rise in their field will eventually become the behaviors that keep them from further advancement. How can that be? When can excellent behaviors hold you back? Have your strengths become your weaknesses — how can you determine that?  And then what can you do about it?

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Nurturing Yourself Stimulates the Power that Makes Good Things Happen

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Change Your Life, Stepping Forward.

A committed practice of nurturing yourself, honoring your own needs, makes you better able to honor others and can transform your world on every level.Usually, we face January with the resolve to “do better this year”. Yet, that’s starting from a very judgmental and negative space, isn’t it? What if, instead of setting lofty goals this year, we work on cultivating a more robust base on which we can build healthy systems for life? Imagine setting the intention of “nurturing yourself” as your only goal knowing that doing this will bring real improvement to all areas of life.

Making a commitment to deeply care for yourself and to engage in daily practices that come from a place of compassion, love, tenderness, and gratitude is a very unselfish thing to do. A committed practice to uplifting and honoring your own needs makes you better able to honor others. When you embrace the power of nurturing your heart, your world can be transformed at every level.

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