How do you start your day? I have an executive coaching client who likes to start her day early. She makes her favorite coffee and savors it while thinking about her day and looking at her calendar. She determines her three most important priorities and works on those...
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8 Factors of Happiness
Happiness is a choice, not a feeling. We can reframe our thinking, and shift from reacting to what happens to us to choosing to feel peaceful and calm.
Top 10 SparkNonprofit Blog Posts of 2022
Before we get too far into 2023, I thought it would be a useful exercise to take a look at what were the most-visited blog posts on SparkNonprofit last year. The results were interesting and humbling. And in one case, a bit surprising.
How to Incorporate Coaching into Your Leadership
Coaching conversations can be incredibly powerful. As a leader, you’ll create better employee performance through coaching than through trying to correct failures and disappointments.
Focus on Your Mindset to Grow in 2023
Instead of focusing on the gap between what we wanted to achieve last year and where we landed, focus on your gains and your mindset to become happier and grow.
Happy Holidays!
Wishing you a peaceful holiday season.
Savoring as a Happiness Tool
Savoring can help us counteract our tendency to focus more attention on negative things in our lives than on positive things.
Happy Thanksgiving
As an executive leadership coach and a fundraising consultant, I have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Thank you to my clients, my mentors, readers of this blog and so many more people I have been fortunate to meet and learn from. I am so very thankful...
Perfectionism & Procrastination
Do you ever feel trapped in perfectionism? Like your work must be perfect, and that perfectionism is something to strive for? Sure, striving to do great work is a good thing. Don’t we all want to do great work? But what if that striving leads you to aim for...
Your To-Do List for Fall
Here we are at the beginning of fall. I love the crisp fall weather, college football (Go Vols!) and making chili in the crockpot. What I don’t love is the busyness of the fourth quarter of the year. Jewish High Holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesday,...