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Category: Self-Leadership Skills

Read The Ground: Your Origin Story Reveals Your Leadership Tendencies

Learn to read the ground upon which you are building your life.No doubt you’ve heard or seen stories of how trackers studied the ground to follow a missing person who has passed through the area. Bent grass, impressions in the mud, broken twigs, dropped items, or pieces of torn clothing all reveal a story about the person being tracked. Similarly, you can become skilled at reading the ground upon which you are building your life.

How? By studying your origin story! You can use it as a diagnostic tool…to help us read the ground beneath your leadership style.

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Feeling Happy vs. Whole: Why the Difference Really Matters

Feeling happy is a beautiful emotion. It deserves to be welcomed and enjoyed. But it doesn’t define whether our lives are going well. Many women have come to believe that emotional well-being means feeling happy, calm, confident, and positive most of the time. So when anxiety appears, when grief lingers, or when uncertainty settles in, they assume something is wrong.

But what if nothing is wrong?

What if the real measure of well-being isn't how you feel on any given day, but how deeply connected you remain to yourself while your feelings come and go?

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Create Your Own Path, But Don't Walk It Alone

Keep in mind these five things when you create your own path in life, so it leads you to the destination that brings you satisfaction and joy.The American spirit is founded on independence and courage. Pioneers had a vision for a better life, so they left what they knew in the East and blazed trails into an uncomfortable, sometimes hostile, West. They didn’t know what they would encounter. But they were willing to do anything and everything to reach their goal, even when that meant battling their own fears and doubts. 

Trying to create your own path in today’s quickly shifting technological world can feel just as terrifying. It takes courage to step away from the familiar, especially when there are no guarantees about what comes next.

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5 Sensitive Things We Outgrow. Make Yourself Fit In or Move On?

The Things We Outgrow That No One Is Talking AboutThere are obvious things we outgrow. Clothes. Jobs. Homes. Trends that once felt exciting but now feel like a different lifetime and no longer reflect who we are. Those shifts are expected and easy to explain.

But there are deeper layers of outgrowing that people feel too uncomfortable to talk about. Beliefs that used to protect us. Friendships that once felt like home. Roles we played so long that we forgot they were optional. Versions of ourselves that once made perfect sense but no longer fit.

These are the inner shifts that happen quietly. The ones that change how you see yourself, what you tolerate, and what you’re willing to carry. These are the outgrown parts of life that don’t come with instructions, yet shedding them is essential for your next chapter.

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Nip the Tall Poppy Syndrome in the Bud & Build Your Self-Esteem

The Tall Poppy Syndrome -when someone tries to cut you down to size - can be overcome by acknowledging that you deserve to be proud of yourself.Australians have a term — the Tall Poppy Syndrome. Have you heard of it? It’s the idea that poppies should all grow at the same height and speed. If one becomes taller than the others, it should be cut down to size, to maintain the uniformity of the crop. Do you recall a time when you were feeling on top of the world because you accomplished something wonderful; then someone threw a wet blanket on your joy, cutting you down to size? You’ve experienced the Tall Poppy Syndrome.

You deserve to be proud of yourself, so let’s examine how you can more fully build your self-esteem to withstand this pervasive attitude!

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