Do This One Tiny Thing #1

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Breakfast!

Hey!

Here at the Corporate Rebel, we prioritize ease. My clients's lives are full so their coaching efforts must deliver the biggest bang for their buck. For the next 5 weeks, I'm going to share 5 fundamental strategies to help you get big results from small changes.

I invite you to make one tiny change each week in each of five areas. When you do, your efforts will add up and lead to more calm, energy and clarity.

Here's the first area: Nutrition.

Food = fuel. You already know everything there is to know about nutrition. Now it's time to make one small change in your eating habits to support your energy-level, focus and productivity. (Think about how hard it is to get stuff done when you're hungry.)

Here are some suggestions:

• I used to "forget" to eat lunch. A couple of years ago, I committed to eating lunch every day.
• Drop one cup of coffee.
• If you're not a breakfast eater, try eating a little breakfast.
• Add a salad to your dinner menu.
• Add a piece of fruit to your afternoon snack.
• Think of the next five weeks as a little mini-challenge (with a break for Thanksgiving). Make one small change each week. Easy peasy.

You'll get a big bang for your buck.

If you have a minute, post your action to The Corporate Rebel HQ Facebook group. Comment (or join) here. The simple act of sharing your commitment with others ensures your accountability and success.

Have a great weekend!

Want More Opportunity?

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Hello!

Here are things I regularly hear from new clients:

• "I've been promoted to a big new job and feel under water."
• "I feel stuck in the same old, same old and am not sure how to move forward."
• "I'm excited about my new role and am not sure what to do."

I see a predictable pattern in careers whether you are a vice-president, business analyst, academic, entrepreneur, or teacher. Your growth as a person and your career opportunities toggle back and forth.

• When you take on a new role, your development has to catch up.
• Once your capacity expands, new opportunities appear.

On an ideal career path, you know when your role has grown past your capacity (and it's time to build more) and when your capacity has grown beyond your role.

I'm sure you've worked with bosses whose growth stalled after a promotion and never grew effectively into leadership. These folks become ineffective and frustrating leaders.

You probably also know people who stayed too long in a role that was too small for their capacity. These folks complain a lot, become "over cooked," and burn out.

Self-awareness is key to avoiding either of these extreme and undesirable outcomes. Take a look at your career today. Are you in a capacity building phase in order to stretch into your role or are you starting to feel itchy to expand your opportunities?

Knowing where you are will help you invest your time and effort wisely to get the outcomes you want. Managing this toggle will keep your career in balance and keep you on a path of momentum and fulfillment.

Make sense?

Have a great week!

Words To Last a Lifetime

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Indiana Jones and the Bridge of Faith

One of my clients has been walking through the fire for a couple of months in order to clean up some old stuff and prepare for an exciting career move.

During our session this week, she told me how peaceful, calm, and confident she feels now. Doors are opening, and now she has the clarity and capacity to move forward. She started acknowledging me and thanking me for my help. I love a good compliment as much as anyone, and as she spoke, it became clear, she was not talking about me. She was talking about herself.

The words that poured from her were so profound, I asked if I could share them with you. Clearly, she said yes because here are her words.

"I put my faith in the person I know and the person I trust. I walked off the cliff and knew someone would catch me. I closed my eyes, put my foot out, and the bridge was there."

That is wisdom to last a lifetime.

Please email me and tell me what her quote means to you. I always love to hear from you.

Have a great weekend.

Do This. It Makes Everything Better.

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My daughter recently told me that I have no "chill." I prefer to think of myself as energetic and productive. And, she has a point.

Where are you on the scale of chill to energetic?

Regardless of where you are on the scale, I have something for you to try, something highly scientific and skilled that will take weeks to master.

Ready?

Here it is.

Lie down.

That's it. Simply lie down. The couch is a pretty good place although I can also recommend the floor. Rather wonderful things happen including rest, meditation, reading, dog love, and a cat on your stomach. Oh, and you become more productive when you take a break, Who knew?!

I feel like I've discovered something under-rated among the type-As and kept highly secret among those of you with "chill." Your secret is out, and it's marvelous.

Be well. Now you know what to do with your weekend. Have fun!

The Power of Changing Your Focus

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Change Your Focus

I spent last week working at a spa in Mexico called Rancho La Puerta. (If you've been to The Ranch, email me!) I love teaching coaching classes, hiking, eating vegetables, sleeping, hip-hop dancing and doing sound healing.

I arrived depleted. Exhausted. Anxious. (Can you relate?)

I left hopeful. Calm. Renewed. (You can have this, too without crossing a border or buying anything.)

How can you duplicate this transformation from the comfort of your couch and neighborhood?

Here's what you do: Change what you pay attention to. Decide what you want to make real in your life. What do you talk about? What do you notice? What do you think about? What do you do with your time?

If the answer to those questions is worry, read news, and check items off your to-do list…well…how do those things affect your inner landscape? For many of you, those things equal stress.

Changing your focus is easy:

• talk about something you love
• spend time in an interesting conversation
• take your headphones out and listen to the birds on your dog walk
• cook tasty food
• call an old friend
• find what's right in the people and situations in your life rather than what's wrong

You have more power than you realize to determine your daily experiences. Tune your awareness and suddenly, you'll see that a beautiful reality exists alongside the ugly one. The beautiful reality is just as real (and maybe more real) than the stressed-out one.

Be well and have a good weekend.

How to Connect to What's Most Important to You

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Get Out of the Box! (Get it?)

If the past two years have taught us anything, it's that life is too short to be stuck. The world is a wild and wonderful place. You spend a lot of time at work. (I was going to say "at the office," but we all know how that's gone). You crave impact. You crave meaning. You have one amazing life to live. With a solid toolbox, you can make every minute at work and home count.

If you're feeling stuck or wishing you had more impact or you just feel a little lost in it all and want to find your way back, let's talk. The Clarity U group coaching program starts at the end of October, and we're inviting the Clarity U class of 2022 to join us. Maybe that's you!

Here are a few of the things that have happened for graduates of Clarity U:

• new jobs
• becoming happy at old jobs
• sudden connections to famous people
• retirement
• new relationships
• promotions
• career changes
• new babies

All of these outward accomplishments are a direct reflection of the inner shifts that happen in Clarity U. Our graduates express it better than I do:

"In Clarity U, I discovered what I like about me, and I am creating a life as unique as I am." - PW

"I use my Clarity U tools on a daily basis. The work was more valuable to me than a lifetime of therapy. I only wish I had done it 20 years ago. I am deeply grateful for the gifts that Christina and Anne shared with me. They are insightful and honest and two of the warmest and most encouraging people I have ever had the honor to know." - EG

Choose a time here for a 30-minute chat about what's going on, what's important to you, and whether Clarity U is the next step on your way bigger and better things in work and life. I can't wait to connect!

Wanna Remember Life?

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Me, realizing something I'd forgotten

I had a realization today.

I'm sick and tired of being steeped in fear.

Fear of Covid, fear of our nation collapsing, fill in the blank on all the many things there are to fear these days. I'm tired of being awakened in the middle of the night by anxiety. I'm tired of the endless news cycle. I realized I was waiting for something, anything to come along and make it all ok.

Then I realized, whether I drown in fear or embrace life is my choice, and I want to live!

I teach that changing the circumstances of your life and career are not going to fix it. You have to look deeper. And here I was, expecting that a resolution to the debt ceiling or the eradication of Covid would make things all better.

That's not where it comes from. Nothing out there is going to make it all better. It comes from in here.

You have a choice.

When you look around your life, have you been battered by fear? Have you been waiting for that thing that will fix it? Have you been thinking that quitting your job or moving will fix it? Do you look around and see that you love your life or that the elements are there learn to love your life?

Surviving and getting by are not enough.

You are charged with the radical notion that you get to live. Be happy. Be fulfilled. Be powerful. Have impact. Have fun.

So, if you are ready to accept that the most important thing you can do right now is learn how to live, in all the messy, wonderful, challenging, beautiful, radical things that means, then I'd love to talk.

I opened a bunch of times on my personal calendar for you. Choose a time here. We'll talk about you, help you get connected to the big picture of what's important to you, and talk about whether or not Clarity U group coaching program is a good next step.

In the words of two participants from the Clarity U class of 2021:

"Before the program, I was down on myself and running a hectic life. I now feel energized knowing I have special gifts to offer to myself and others." —Training Advisor and Creative Entrepreneur

"Clarity U helped me remember who I am at my core. As a result, I made a career change after 25 years. This would not have been possible without Clarity U". — Director of Qualified Plans and Nurturer of Curiosity

Feeling tingly? Nervous? Ready to remember who you are at your core? Let's talk.