With over 15 years in the corporate world, I specialize in Women's Empowerment and assisting women to live powerful and passionate lives.
Falling Awake Workshop | Sonoma, CA; USA | August 17 - 19, 2008
Unlock your thinking; create effective action plans; learn how to accomplish your goals; focus your awareness; skillfully listen more effectively and develop strategies to consistently flourish. Somoma Valley, CA; USA
Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time, and Money By A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill
AUDIOBOOK: Optimize effort and develop navigational intelligence. $14.97
Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict between Conscience and Success By Harold S. Kushner
BOOK: Harold S. Kushner leads us through the thorny issues of self-realization, justice, personal integrity, and relationships in a quest to discover what really matters.
LIGHT THE FIRE FROM WITHIN Robert Gunn and Alexander Caillet
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When we lead - and live - for a higher purpose than ourselves, it is as if an intense fire is ignited deep within our consciousness. We draw on this fire; it releases a surge of energy and ignites our enthusiasm. It transforms our personality to one that is truly attractive - drawing followers to us, and drawing from them their full support. Thus are long lasting results achieved.
"Champions aren't made in gyms" said heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, whose dominance transcended his sport. "They are made from something they have deep inside - a desire, a dream, a vision." Conversely, Dennis Rodman, the flashy basketball player whose performance never matched his obvious potential, said, "I can score 20 points if I want to, but that is not my desire."
The distance between those two statements, and the difference in the accomplishments of those two athletes, is the mechanism that transfigures desire into tangible deed. That is, will power.
Willpower gets us out of bed at zero-dark-thirty. More important, it overcomes the tendency to stand pat, to let others do it, to put the tough tasks off to tomorrow. In other words, it's resolve that leads to action, and action leads to results. It's determination that is a vital factor in motivating others, as well: who dares say, "it can't be done' in the face of resoluteness? In fact, what separates a leader from a follower is that a leader's willpower burns brighter.
But why is that? Why does inner drive manifest so differently in people? Haven't we all seen seemingly talented leaders whose accomplishments fall short while marveling how others with average skills deliver exceptional results year after year?
Executives often find this puzzling. While we intuitively sense when something is amiss, we usually ascribe performance shortfalls to circumstances - gaps in knowledge/experience or events beyond human control. We don't see clearly that the faltering leader has somehow severed his connection between deep desire, willpower, and accomplishment. We risk making two mistakes:
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Work/Life Balance By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON How to keep work stress from damaging home relationships.
Early in her career, Betsy would travel about once every other month. On her return, she'd look forward to being met at the gate by her husband, Gary. Mind you, it's an hour drive from their house to the airport - over the Golden Gate Bridge, through the city of San Francisco, down the freeway to the airport. Gary had a flexible work schedule, and he didn't mind.
“Busy as a Bee” By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON
People who understand that busyness is actually just a state of mind cope effortlessly and gracefully with whatever is thrown their way. free
Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It
BOOK: ""A refreshing message ... from someone who has fought many corporate wars." <~ The New York Times
Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships
BOOK: Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topics-commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money...
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
BOOK: Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences...
LIGHT THE FIRE FROM WITHIN 
Work/Life Balance By ROBERT W. GUNN and BETSY RASKIN GULLICKSON 
