Impactbank: The Kickass Koach

WellBeing is key to both progress (success) and happiness (self-actualization). In this episode I speak to how we may consider reflecting differently on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Ask yourself: on what is my wellbeing built and how do I grow and preserve it for myself and those around me in moments it is  threatened?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Expressing affection for and even respect for another, expands feelings of well-being in you and them. Again I was inspired by the drama in Canada about the Convoy that has since left Ottawa. What drew otherwise law-abiding and reasonable Canadians to engage in sending a message. What attracted others, who wouldn't participate, to quietly support. What are the lessons to leaders? I refer to fringe in this episode. I am referencing the most hateful elements of this convoy: the misogynist, white supremacist, anti-semite and homophobic elements that cloaked themselves in the pain and anxiety of others. Those openly calling for the over-through of a democratically elected government. Ask yourself: How do I express respect for and affection for my colleagues so they are able to experience me as an ally and want to trust and engage with me? Look for how this expands overall wellbeing for them and your organization?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TO

Our well-being is expanded by our experience of agency. This week I was inspired by observing, from a distance, the "Freedom" Convoy that has a few locations across Canada. As I post this I hear a few have been cleared but still the "movement" stands as an example of wherein a greater sense of agency may have made all the difference. How can I expand my feeling of agency and drop the feeling of a victim in the midst of a pandemic during which my life was so deeply disrupted? HOW CAN I take responsibility to be empowered rather than allow my emotions to imprison me?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our well-being is about knowing and choosing our priority and ensuring every decision and choice we make is aligned with this priority. In this episode I share how a client when completing her medical training learned how to stand up for her priority against a system that wanted her to comply with the hierarchy. She believes she is a better doctor now for having done so. How are you setting your main priorities to ensure they help expand your wellbeing and ensuring each decision you make aligns with it? Honour your own wellbeing and you will see increased health, wealth and happiness in the long term.   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our values, whether core or acquired, are the source of  and means to our individual and collective well-being. #WellBeing will spring from our willingness to discover explore and live up to our own values in a mature way. Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community. Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

When a leader uses certainty to manage behaviour, it often back-fires.  WellBeing requires that leaders inform and engage rather than manipulate with certainty when navigating crisis. Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community. Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

For what are you willing to risk your health? When we realize our well-being is far beyond the absence of illness, we will do the work to foster the habits and patterns in which it will thrive. In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating illness and learning the value in nurturing well-being in a balanced way. Hear about my well-being pie and try out your own.  Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Emotions are a pesky part of being human.  If you try to eliminate them from your life experience, good luck! Emotions will not be denied. Emotions are like debt, if ignored, they will grow more difficult to manage in time. To experience #wellbeing we do well to learn how to harness them in a healthy way. In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating negative emotions over the past month to demonstrate an intervention for well-being.  Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

So much has been imposed on us these past two years and for good reason: collective health and well-being. Perhaps it will do us all well to take charge of our own well-being as a focus in 2022. What each of us needs may be different and when we adapt our approach for our needs we feel deeply empowered. Join me to make this shift for yourself. Suggested reflection: FOR WHAT AM I OPTIMIZING? Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

"It is time to change our attitude!" When we choose our attitude we can choose to expand out grit. Our capacity to persist is expanded when we focus primarily on progress - one foot in front of another. Together we've got this. 2021 theme: resilience December topic: GRIT Weekly Focus: interventions for Grit Reflection Question: where do I start? How will developing my grit help me navigate 2022 more effectively   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus.. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our individual and collective well-being may be the most important focus in 2022.  2021 theme: resilience December topic: GRIT Weekly Focus: well-being Reflection Question:  how would strengthening my overall wellbeing increase my grit, thereby my success and accomplishments in 2022?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus.. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Getting lost may be a signal of our GRIT, and it may be exactly what we need. 2021 theme: resilience December topic: GRIT Weekly Focus: lost Reflection Question: what role does passion play in your LEVEL OF Grit?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus.. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

As a strength, GRIT is right up there, predicting effectiveness. What is it and why do I want it? 2021 theme: resilience December topic: GRIT Weekly Focus: a strength Reflection Question:  what's Grit and what would it offer me as I prepare for 2022?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

My focus this week is on learning to use our Character Strengths as leverage to make changes that benefit our life with a well-crafted intervention. 2021 theme: resilience November topic: Character Weekly Focus: an intervention Reflection Question:  what if I had an intervention to help nurture and apply character strengths for greater well being for myself and those I serve or serve with?   Walk with me:  Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Knowing and learning to recognize your Values In Action, is one way to ensure you perform at your very best. 2021 theme: resilience November topic: Character Weekly Focus: Shadows Reflection Question:  character strengths have shadows; what impact would it make if you recognized yours?   Walk with me:  Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

When we know and use our signature strengths in a healthy way we become the person we want to be to achieve our goals. 2021 theme: resilience November topic: Character Weekly Focus: Signature Character Strengths Reflection Question: what if, before executing our plan, we explored who to be while doing so?   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter; which I will resume in the new year. for now receive my gift engaging exercise and FIND all past* newsletters for your review. Take the VIA strengths survey - https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/surveys/questions/21270169?startingQuestionNumber=1 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate  

Our character strengths result in certain habitual patterns. So too in organizations and societies? 2021 theme: resilience November topic: Character Weekly Focus: the habits of character Reflection Question:  how are my character strengths contributing to the outcomes I seek and, possibly more importantly, those I wish to eliminate?   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter; which I will resume in the new year. for now receive my gift engaging exercise and FIND all past* newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate

What if we reduce the amount those in power micromanage and focus systemic efforts on macro-management? 2021 theme: resilience October topic: Transformation Weekly Focus: macro-management Reflective Question: compassion may be a revolutionary/transformative act in a time when there is so much pain, need for healing; is an emphasis on macro-management part of the compassion we seek?   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter; which I will resume in the new year. for now receive my gift engaging exercise and FIND all past* newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate

Do we hide behind the systemic or the structural, seeing it as the responsibility of someone else? 2021 theme: resilience October topic: Transformation Weekly Focus: moved by shame Reflective Question: when we accept that our systems are biased are we better able to transform them to serve us all more effectively or is it someone else's responsibility?   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter; which I will resume in the new year. for now receive my gift engaging exercise and FIND all past* newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate

What is possible when we embrace and move with one-mind? 2021 theme: resilience October topic: Transformation Weekly Focus: of one mind Reflective Question: how do I contribute to generating a one mindedness, entrenching a mindset of interconnectedness? How will this mindset transform wellbeing in my family, organization  and society?   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter; which I will resume in the new year. for now receive my gift engaging exercise and FIND all past* newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate