When you react, you are giving your power away. This is something that I really came to understand a couple of years ago. Giving your power away comes in so many different forms. A notable example is not having strong boundaries. Just the other day I was having a conversation with a friend who was Read More
Would you be okay with someone speaking to your loved ones the way you speak to yourself? Esteem: (definition) Respect and Admiration. We discovered last week exactly what those two words mean. By that logic, we should understand the fundamentals of self-esteem yes? Not necessarily so. This is the disparities between the ‘Self’s’ coming to Read More
‘ The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs’ – Joan Didion Self-love, Self-hate, Self-doubt, Self-respect, Self-esteem, Self-sabotage… Have you ever stopped to really think about the distinctions between these ‘Self’s’ we all have? Have you ever actively attempted to hone in to these ‘Self’s’? Are these Read More
Context and Content reframing When you have certain experiences in your life, good or bad, your response sets into motion what transpires. If you were to reverse-engineer this process, you could in fact find an alternative way of viewing a situation, which would therefore produce a different result. You have a choice as to how Read More
Losing an employee costs thousands of dollars. You know that, right? By the time you factor in downtime, reduced productivity, interviewing, hiring and training, plus all of the administration costs involved, it goes something like this: Entry-level employees cost about 30% of their annual salary to replace. Mid-level employees cost about 100%. Senior staff, or Read More