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Written by: Theresa-Maria Napa

Leading from Authenticity is a Beautiful Thing - Click To Read Article
The past holds us back when we use the same tools and skills that got us to where we are. If we keep doing what we have been doing, even though relationships and events may change, we get the same results with an only slightly new picture, still encased in the old frame.

Adversity – Mountains – and Fulfilling Your Dreams - Click To Read Article
Adversity offers opportunities to stretch beyond where you are to new dreams and not be swept into the negativity of fear, guilt, blame or self-doubt. The new dream may be one that has been stored in the “someday” folder, but needs to be opened with fresh eyes that say, “This is the time to do something about making my dream come alive.”

How To Be the Leader of Your Own Destiny - Click To Read Article
Being a leader may be something you are not interested in being or doing. But if that is so, then you are shortchanging yourself and the world of the gifts you have to offer. Leadership is to be of service to self and others. We are all called to lead, but few answer the call. Why? One reason could be from the negative self-talk diminishing our hopes. Self-talk can keep one in the forest only seeing the trees without seeing the whole forest and all it has to offer.

Leaders Connect to Their Genius From What They Don’t Know - Click To Read Article
The vast majority of individuals operate from what they already know based on personal knowledge, experiences, values, and beliefs attained throughout their growing years. They see the world through lens colored with their limiting perspectives. Organic leaders consciously or unconsciously have a vision that is bigger than them. They ask questions beyond what they know and what is universally known. Their inquiries stem from curiosity. One of the questions may start with: “I wonder.”

Leadership Tips to Manage Those Inner Critics - Click To Read Article
Inner critics, the saboteurs of dreams, are really afraid of change. The unknown is dangerous to them. They come up with reasons to protect you from the possibility of getting hurt in moving forward with a new idea or project. The inner critic gremlins fill you with self doubt, fear and anxiety. Before you know it, you give up. The irony of trying to keep things the same is that change is impossible to stop. Yet the ego self is committed to hold you down no matter what measure of success you have.

Landscape Your Way to Success with a Metaphor - Click To Read Article
Metaphors are a powerful tool to reach desired outcomes. Make one up. Use the metaphor as a blueprint to build your dreams to have more money, better relationships, and higher levels of success. It doesn’t cost anything. It will only take a few minutes to develop. So simple, yet so powerful!

Make It Happen - You Are Smarter Than You Think - Click To Read Article
Transitions are a way to grow to a better life and career. Allowing circumstances and false beliefs the power to decide what you can and can’t do, is not living up to your potential.

Your Vision is Your Leadership Calling Card - Click To Read Article
Leadership is motivated by a vision. Success is not happenstance. Behind leadership and success, there is a vision. A vision provides a compass. It includes your values and what you believe for yourself and others.

The Power of Certainty is Extra Special in Getting Extraordinary Results - Click To Read Article
Who among you can climb more than one mountain at a time? Visualize that if you can! Imagine having one foot on one mountain and the other foot on a different mountain with the intention of reaching both mountain tops. Pretty ridiculous wouldn’t you say! How can you be certain you will reach the summit of either mountain when you are divided?

Leadership Tip - The Diamond Essence of Leaders - Click To Read Article
Where does the power to lead come from? It certainly doesn’t come from outside of you. To keep looking for someone else to make you look good, or to look to be handed a leadership position because you have an impressive resume doesn’t cut it. To seek what you want outside of you with a pseudo personality may get you in the door, but probably out the door within a short period of time. The irony is that the power to lead effectively and be a winner is at your immediate disposal. You hold the gem to your success. It is the essence of your being. It is what you are called to do.

Dare to be a Rebel – Daring to be Yourself - Click To Read Article
I believe there is a "rebel" quality within each of us that is shut down by voices from the past telling us to keep quiet, don't make so much noise, children should be seen and not heard, don't rock the boat, your idea sucks, you'll never make it, and on and on about how to live and be happy based on our learning experiences.

Staging Your Next Leadership Act - 4 Tips for Success - Click To Read Article
If the world is a stage, what roles are you playing? Are you the star of the play or cast member supporting the vision of the play? Either part is one of leadership. It may appear that the star player is the strongest leader, but the supporting member of the cast is also a strong leader when viewed from their personal goals. It doesn’t require one to be reach fame and celebratory status to be a leader. This is your play, your next act to create.

What To Do When Stricken With Restlessness of the Heart - Click To Read Article
We are always evolving and restlessness can be a sign that change is in the wind. Check it out as you journal and trust the process. Watch out when you start second guessing what you have written. Second guessing is more than likely the ego resisting change.

Become the Winner You Were Born to Be - Click To Read Article
You are the leader of your life with inherent characteristics to take you to the top. Defining your winning formula is the strategy of successful leaders. Why not tap into what is available to be all that you can be and more?

Tips to Help You Stand Up, Step Up and Play Big as a Leader - Click To Read Article
What would it be like to be among the top 3% of winners? The three per-centers at the top started with a dream of where they wanted to go and imagined winning. In the beginning their dream may have started on a small scale, but as time went on it grew larger and larger.

Confusion is a Moving Target – Now What? - Click To Read Article
Dramatic transitions that occur beyond our control can stir up emotions of fear, doubt, anxiety and uncertainty. Changes persuade us to move in new directions, yet there is hesitancy to risk moving forward into the unknown. The change may even be a welcomed change. But our comfort zones are strong allies in maintaining the status quo. The past, even though it is gone, is where most people live; using it to make assumptions about the future. The future is unpredictable. Now what?

Career Change - Cross the Bridge to Your New Career With Luxury Features - Click To Read Article
Changes in the world and in our lives are happening so rapidly it scarcely gives us time to stop and reflect what it all means in the scheme of our personal selves. There is a tendency to move on to "What's next?" with too much speed. Change is similar to crossing a bridge.

Be Inspired - From Rags to Riches Leadership - Click To Read Article
Where does leadership originate? What makes a good leader? There are a multitude of perspectives and definitions on the subject. What about the followers? Who are the followers of a leader? Are the followers obeying blindly out of fear or laziness when taking the easy road? Or are the followers being self-leaders within the circles in which they participate?

Are You Unhappy Doing All the Right Things? - Click To Read Article
Have you ever been in the spot where you were “suppose” to be happy? The place where everything is going right, but there is this gnawing feeling that just won’t go away? You try to shake off the questionable feeling by drowning it with “doing,” because it doesn’t make logical sense to have this feeling of dissatisfaction when you are successful doing what you are doing. Plus what if what you are doing is really not what you are meant to do? Yet, it is zapping your energy doing what you are “supposed” to be doing.

You Can Turn Information into Leadership and Career Success - Click To Read Article
During turbulent times, when seeking information on what to do next, the best answers for arriving at new possibilities require deeper questions. It is a time for reinventing the knowledge you have with creativity and vision.

Articulate Your Success Through A Compelling Vision - Click To Read Article
Evolution is part of nature. Nothing stays the same, yet rather than take advantage of the potential within, the majority of people fight to keep situations/relationships the same regardless of dissatisfaction. More than likely they are subconsciously using familiar habits and strategies to transform expecting new results. It’s ludicrous to expect different results using the same patterns! These actions are more of survival rather than proactive self-leadership in generating opportunities.

The Two Primary Self-Leadership Errors Made in Transition - Click To Read Article
Who hasn’t experienced difficulties that seemed insurmountable? When circumstances interrupt one’s comfort zone of living, they can cause multiple transitions, which may feel like you’re being pushed into a corner where there seems to be no way out. The corner looks dreary, hopeless, and dark with no solutions to problems taking over your life. Maybe you tried everything you could think of and still found no resolution.

An Organic Leader Used Power Versus Force - Click To Read Article
"If only there was more time to get more done," has become as common and familiar a conversation as talking about the weather. There is an endless string of "to do's" without even having time to celebrate what has been accomplished. Acknowledgment of deeds well done is often overlooked. There are deadlines causing the deadening of senses, contracting potential and poor self care. Freedom from overwhelm is leading with power and not force.

Optimism, Resilience and Leadership - Click To Read Article
Leadership, resilience and optimism are major characteristics necessary to transcend to levels that are futuristically rewarding personally, professionally, and globally.

Discovering A Leader's Defining Moment - Click To Read Article
Defining transitions are the greatest opportunities to live life doing what you are meant to do. Unfortunately for most of us, it takes a boulder to get our attention to move on and follow our destiny. The boulder usually is a loss of some kind or someone. Even though a relationship or event may not be a pleasant one, we know what to expect from it. What lies ahead during change is uncertain and scarier than the present experience. But when our thoughts are focusing on what's making us unhappy we actually attract more unhappiness. It is hard to believe that we would attract what we don't want, but our thoughts are energy in motion attracting more of the same.

Yearn, Learn and Earn Through the Art of Pretending - Click To Read Article
Yearning is the catalyst to learning what you yearn to do, be and have and then earning an income from what you yearn. There are so many professionals in careers where they choose to learn based on the income potential rather than looking at a career more in alignment with what they really wanted to do. Unfortunately, this brings more suffering and stress in spite of the financial rewards.

Yes You Can Compute Success and Turn Circumstances into Opportunities - Click To Read Article
It is normal to want to have a life that is fulfilling, happy and abundant. Hanging on to old perspectives and attachments to beliefs that are based on being right rather than happy are limiting, self destructive and keeps you trapped and living a mediocre life when you can have an extraordinary life.

Who Is Responsible For Your Choices? - Click To Read Article
Who is responsible for your life - your career - your choices? That may seem like a silly question, but often there is a victim mentally from people who choose to blame others. The others may be your parents; or the spouse that left you broke and broken-hearted. The other to blame for your hardship might be an employer who let you go for whatever reason; or a friend who betrayed you; or whatever calamity you choose to blame on another.

Tap Into Possibility - From Romance to the Dance - Click To Read Article
Whether it be in relationships with significant others or starting a new career you are passionate about, the presence of love and enthusiasm fill you with intense emotions. Initially, there is an exhilaration that has you beaming from head to toe. The allure of discovering the unknown is enticing. The newness, the freshness, the beating of a joyful heart, the willingness to have new experiences are some of the attributes to the dance of romance. Tapping into awareness of possibilities that may have been out of your radar have risen to the top of your priorities.

Success and Leadership - The Measuring Sticks of Success - Click To Read Article
We often use the wrong measuring stick as to our worth and achievements. It is the money stick! We get mesmerized by the glitter of celebrities and the Fortune list of the wealthiest people. We compare ourselves with a system that honors entertainment more than education, more than how we care for our families, or how hard we work. We compare our bodies to bodies that we are told are the bodies to have in order to have happiness. We need to stop comparing ourselves with unrealistic goals. What's good for one person is not necessarily good for you or me.

Struggle If You Must During Career Transition, But Why Should You? - Click To Read Article
To advance forward is to advance to new perspectives by developing new competencies in both soft and hard skills. What is meant by soft and hard skills? I see the hard skills as those that are produced. They are measurable, quantifiable and can be observed outside of self. They have empirical evidence. For example, when a client of mine has a goal to make a career transition into another field of interest and she/he has succeeded, it is obvious to everyone who is familiar with him/her. It is measurable in that the client did break away from one profession and moved into another, which could be seen by others.

So What Is This Thing Called Coaching? - Click To Read Article
Without a doubt, one of the most powerful tools to maximize your potential to produce better results is coaching. A client may initially hire a coach to reach a professional goal or they may be looking to make a personal lifestyle change. We live in a fast-paced world with a myriad of changes happening beyond one’s control. However, taking a leap of faith into exploring your own potential puts you in control with more confidence. You already are! Awakening to meet your potential is an invitation to make room for who you are to flow into expression.

Self-Leadership Success - How to Mend an Interrupted Dream - Click To Read Article
Should you languish over the past and try to relive it, you can’t! Nothing stays the same. You may want to hold onto what once was, but the dream as you remember it is gone. That isn’t to say you should ignore the wonderful memories and attributes of your past dream. These qualities which are still alive can be used to mend the interrupted dream to new wonders and possibilities.

Self-Leadership Disciplines of Success Regardless of Economic Trends - Click To Read Article
Spring is in the air and so are new beginnings. We begin to awaken from the slumber energy of winter. Gardeners have begun to plant seeds for new blossoms. Annual foliage is stirring new birth of its own unique flavors and essence. Longer hours of sunlight give you the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and fresh air, participating in sports, taking walks, enjoying outdoor cafes, building new relationships, wearing clothing that doesn’t require layers to keep warm, and perhaps being a little more adventurous.

Personal Success Strategy - Schedule a Mind-Rest Date - Click To Read Article
It is not uncommon for people to get so tangled up in the quagmire of struggle when going through change that they forget to give themselves a mind-rest. Yes, a mind-rest to let go of the worries and everyday routines that occupy a great deal of time.

Personal Success Strategies - Attract Desired Relationships/Careers With Unseen Forces - Click To Read Article
Inspiration is spiritual intelligence available 24/7 - around the clock. What happens to most of us is we try to solve problems with the denser frequency of our brain. The irony is that logic comes from inspiration. The less we utilize the energy available to each of us from the unseen energy of imagination, the more limitation we put on the availability of our potential. We are beings of energy. Integration of the higher frequency of imagination and the denser frequency of physicality produces awareness to unlimited potential.

Personal Success Tips - Blazing New Trails to a New Career - Click To Read Article
Reinventing yourself from one career to another is an adventure. The adventure can be welcomed or not. It depends upon personal circumstances. To some it is a deliberate intention to change. They are eager to venture out beyond their comfort zone and tap into their potential. To others reinventing themselves may be an unwelcome transition due to job loss, having to go back to work, divorce, or some other circumstance beyond their control.

Moving Faster and Still Off Track - Click To Read Article
Today’s busy-ness trap comes at a high price. It seems people are automatically responding to some allusive fascination to having it all. But what is having it all? Who’s “all” is it? Is it yours or an unspoken agreement in society?

Manifesting With the Law of Attraction - Click To Read Article
Becoming familiar with The Law of Attraction (LOA) is powerful in manifesting your desires for something more. Simplistically, the Law of Attraction is a synchronizing of thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions.

Leadership Tip - Who is Leaving You Behind? - Click To Read Article
When you give in to self-pity and victimization you leave behind your potential. It is abandoning yourself from being all that you can be. Life holds a special purpose for you. Finding it is part of your journey. Once you get on purpose and get on track, you are not being left behind. Your success builds from your special purpose and no one else’s.

Leadership Success Skills - Autumn is The New New Year - Click To Read Article
The other day I heard on the radio that autumn is the new New Year! It makes sense when you think about it. I think fall is a great time to re-evaluate and take an inventory on the successes and challenges of the year to date. Here are some questions and tips to ponder in the remaining months of the year.

Leadership Success Strategy - Your Winning Leadership Formula to a Balanced Life - Click To Read Article
Balance is not a state or place we can get to. Balance is always in motion. A ballerina trains and practices balance to be on point, a golfer balances his/her golf swing, a pilot keeps the aircraft balanced through all types of weather conditions. Each of these examples illustrate different areas where balance is required, however, each of the individuals have one fundamental characteristic. They are focused on an objective to get to a specific outcome. Balance is a skill to be developed.

Leadership Strategies - Be a Change Leader With an Organic Vision - Click To Read Article
Let's talk change leadership, personally and professionally. Stretching to new levels of excellence and making major changes needs to begin with a compelling organic vision. This vision is a map from where you begin to plan your strategies.

Leadership Tips - Leaders Make Use of Mess to Germinate New Solutions - Click To Read Article
Life is full of messiness - We can either clean up the mess or sit and stew in it!

Leadership Excellence Isn't Achieved Without Failure - Click To Read Article
Making a resolution and being committed to it doesn't mean you won't fail. Inherent in moving toward a bigger dream is failure. The question is how committed are you to your resolution of developing your leadership skills, having a better job, working toward a promotion, becoming an entrepreneur, taking better care of your health and having more love?

Leadership Tip - Stop Choking Dreams With Fear & Doubt - Click To Read Article
Most people walk around with submerged dreams filled with fear and doubt. We all have dreams of something better: A better career, a better relationship, a better environment, a better lifestyle, a better financial portfolio, or whatever we want to improve in our life. Just because we want something better doesn’t necessarily mean there is something wrong with what you have - it just means you are following the natural course of life. You are meant to evolve and grow. Nothing, nothing stays stagnate. Yet most people keep trying to get something better using the same thoughts and skills from the past.

Leadership Strategy - Change Your Mind to Take the Lead - Click To Read Article
Your mind is a beautiful vessel and holds the key to opening doors to opportunities. Opportunities you are destined to pursue. But what frequently happens is that the vessel of your mind is filled with aging memories, habits, characteristics, perspectives and false beliefs that are frequently kept into existence with expectations of creating different circumstances. Expecting something different without change is unrealistic.

Leadership Strategy - One Size Success Does Not Fit All - Click To Read Article
If you are very successful, by whose standards do you feel successful? If you are not getting up in the morning looking forward to the day and the contribution you will make, that is a sure signal trying to get your attention There comes a time when you know there is another way and something else is possible.

Leadership Strategy - Lead The Way With Your Talents - Click To Read Article
Today, change is showing up globally like a volcano that has been merely spewing smoke and now has erupted. The signs were there. The “too good to be true” mortgages with little or no down payment; credit card accessibility used with promises that the user would pay them off in the future, yet the debt just kept mounting to outlandish proportions; trying to have it all by working harder and longer with little time left over to develop relationships and self care. With all the stress internally and externally it was inevitable for the bubble to burst.

Leadership Strategy - Managing The Unimaginable - Click To Read Article
If you are someone who is overworked, stressed out, burned out, under-paid, and underappreciated, then read on to see what successful people do to be winners in their lives.

Leadership Strategies - The Bigger Game Competencies from A to Z - Click To Read Article
For athletes to get to higher levels of achievement, they have to raise the bar to advanced self-awareness. They do this by accessing their potential, which they put into action through training. It is progression from where the athlete comes to the game with her/his existing competencies and then enrolls in coaching and training to expand to her/his bigger game possibilities.

Leadership Strategy - Remove The Deal Breaker to Success And Happiness - Click To Read Article
The caveat during transitions, whether personally or new directions professionally, are past beliefs and paradigms fighting against change. The inner saboteurs are in their warring gear standing steadfast to have you believe that it is safer to stay put or you will end up in a worse position. They are determined to convince you that the "right" choice is not to rock the boat otherwise you will sink!

Leadership Coaching – Is It Right for You and Your Business - Click To Read Article
Within the last decades of the 20th century, coaching began to appear as an asset to help individuals successfully navigate through the quagmire of changes taking place at work and home. The old system of following the leader started being transformed by leaders teaching others self-leadership within the circle of influence of the individual. Leadership development from the bottom up began to spring up to create teams of leaders.

Leadership Tip - Moving Beyond Fear Into Your Leadership Role - Click To Read Article
Media is bombarding the airwaves with tragic news regarding one financial collapse after another. Fear is being felt throughout the world as a result of fallen financial markets. Reacting to life on the terms of FEAR is giving one’s power away. Remember FEAR is “false evidence appearing real.” There are facts and then there are actions you take from what your heart knows is true. Your heart speaks the truth.

Get Clues From Nature on Mastering Change - Click To Read Article
During this time of recession hibernation it is a perfect time to reflect and start fresh. It is the natural thing to do. Unlike the quarterly months of the seasons, the recession hibernation season is going to take longer. However, that doesn’t mean you stop planting seeds for a new future. For many what to plant is a mystery. What was planted in the past no longer bears fruit. One thing to bear in mind when planting is to rotate your strengths instead of relying on past performance and production much like a farmer rotates his crops to enrich the soil.

Embracing Change to Have the Career You Want - Click To Read Article
Changing careers, going back to work and going back to school is a wonderful place to be. Yet it can be so scary leaving what we know and are familiar with. This place is often called your “comfort zone.” Strange, isn’t it, to use the term “comfort zone” when being there can cause us to experience so much discomfort doing those things that cause stress and even illness? I felt the tug and pull of wanting to move on to something new during my tenure in marketing and administrative positions. The tug to stay put is strong. “Don’t rock the boat,” I was told by family and friends who were only trying to think what was best for me. Getting a regular paycheck and maybe some benefits is seductive. And to be pulled toward something new is also seductive with its own series of concerns and doubts.

Creating Space - Your "Someday" Could Be Your Today Or Your Yesterday - You Choose - Click To Read Article
What is it about getting rid of piles of unread magazines, tossing out that accumulated junk hiding in drawers, donating clothes that haven't been worn in years, and letting go of old projects waiting to get our attention? Why do we allow these "someday" things to take up so much space in our environment and in our head?

Disciplines of Success Regardless of Economic Trends - Click To Read Article
Self-leadership combined with leadership is critical in combining work and pleasure. These are skills that can be learned. Champions keep on learning. They see the opportunities through transitions. Effective leaders are self-aware of the principles and characteristics of influential leadership. They know how to be fully engaged in their surroundings and are proactive in their goals and success.

Career Success Strategies - Interview With Your First Impression in Mind - Click To Read Article
It takes less than 6 seconds to leave a first impression. It is said not to judge a book by its cover, but come on, isn't it the color, the design, the layout and title that draws us to pick up a book that may be of interest to us? When perusing magazines or CDs we are attracted to the cover. Notice what you make up about a person when you are first introduced to her/him? What are you making up about that person? Spend some time people watching and notice the assumptions you make. Is most of what you hear yourself saying negative or positive?

Career Success - It is Better to Compliment Than to Complain For Career Satisfaction - Click To Read Article
Make room for getting the job and career you want. It starts with you, right now with deliberate intention taking full responsibility in building a working environment by being more positive. Do what you can to build an optimistic reservoir of positive feelings, making friends, and networking.

Changing Your Life - Transition is Either Voluntary Or Involuntary - Click To Read Article
You may be changing careers, going back to school, or going back to an old familiar career that you've been away from for a while. Your transition may be voluntary or involuntary and either provides similar feelings of stress and uncertainty.

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