A-Line Articles
The path to better personal and professional relationships and communication is called the A-Line: Awareness, Acceptance, Authenticity, Authority & Awakening.
Growing Awareness
Grow Your Capacity to See Your Part in Relationship Issues
Your Thinking is Keeping You Stuck!
Most of us tend to get caught up in ways of thinking that cause problems for ourselves and the others in our lives. These problems cause stress and upset in our personal and professional lives and relationships. They cloud our vision and affect our judgment of people...
How can I stop being reactive?
Our reactions are something that developed over time and are often a default setting. It’s our go to for some reason. We decided that a long time ago, so don’t be surprised if it takes a while to get to the root of the cause. Sometimes we are mimicking the beliefs and...
Deworming Your Mind
I spoke to a colleague last week. She had gone through a rough patch and noticed her thoughts and reactions were very volatile around that area of life – she called it a hangover. I really appreciated that. To me that meant that she knew that it was self-inflicted and...
Emotional Intelligence & Beyond
A hot topic in personal and professional development these days is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence, in general, is learning to calm the reactions our thoughts and beliefs create, so others can have their thoughts and beliefs intact in our presence. It’s...
Have You Been Told You Have a Victim Attitude?
Some people I work with come to me because they feel like a victim; victimized by life or others. Or some have been told they have a victim attitude about part, or all, of their life and want to find out about that. They have probably heard from others to change their...
Listen to Your Mind
Go on a walk alone and listen to your mind. Bring a small notepad and pen. Don’t bring your earbuds, airpods, or earphones this time. For best results, leave your phone behind. You and your mind need some alone time. The world will still distract you – add that to...
Acceptance
Increase Your Ability to Accept What You See as Your Responsibility to Change
Spidey-Senses, and What Can Set Them Tingling!
Call it what you will – instinct, intuition, gut-feeling or spidey-senses – sometimes we just get a feeling... you know what I mean. These feelings trigger us in certain ways – positive and negative, towards something or away from it. There are a lot of reasons for...
Building Core Relational Strength
Core relational strength provides the ability to be clear about what you are communicating and to deliver it with affinity and reality – in appropriate relationship. It also includes getting the clarity that the message has been received and understood. All of this is...
Handling Holidays Better
Tips to help your coaching clients have a better holiday season When this time of year rolls around people start to think about family and the holiday season. Whatever culture we come from there is often much more time spent with family than usual and this can rev up...
We Are Meaning Making Machines!
Our brains are hardwired to look for body language – non-verbal clues – even though we may not even consciously be aware of what is triggering us. Then, other times we make conscious choices to believe something without truly checking if it's true for ourselves. I...
Authentically You
Become More and More Your True Self as Old Patterns are Revealed and Released
The QuickRead Method
Applications in Security, Sales, & Customer Service If you deal with people as a part of your job or business it would benefit you to use all the means at your disposal to understand them better. Knowing how to identify non-verbal cues and communication can make a...
The Top 4 Things That Push Your Buttons
People, People, People, People Sometimes we are just not ourselves, something triggers us – we react and cause damage to the relationships in our work and home life – when it happens it can really take us out; out of connection, communication and contact – out of...
Open Mind, Open Heart; Open for Business!
I write quite a bit about clearing mental attitudes that trigger us into closing ourselves to opportunities. These are mindset issues, however they originate in the heart. The core issues that restrict us most were developed in childhood and can be difficult to...
Instead of Getting Rid of Negative Thoughts, Let Then Lead You To Treasure!
Before we are socialized, we are as authentic and natural as we can be. As we internalize what we are told, and we say it over and over to ourselves, it gives us something to hold onto, that we can count on. It keeps us feeling that we belong, are accepted, taken care...
You as an Authority
Acknowledge the Depth of What You Bring and Offer it to the World as You Desire
Relationship-Based Leadership
Caring, intentional, and responsive relationships are at the heart of businesses that people want to work for. You can create deeper and more meaningful relationships with your colleagues, and employees, as well as your clients! Modern leadership needs to be more than...
Relationships Are a Main Cause of Stress & Anxiety
Many business professionals struggle to manage interpersonal relationships. They report that a high percentage of the stress and anxiety they feel comes from having to ‘handle’ and ‘deal with’ people. Coaching can help. Due to the mindset issues involved, it is...
Translating & Interpreting Communication
In articles and videos I have written and spoken about ways that we jump to assumptions and are triggered by others because of what they do and say. They trigger us to jump to preconceived ideas that comfort us by having us believe that we are right when we encounter...
Awakening to Possibilities
Be Available to the Next, Deeper, and More True Levels to Arise
Trust – Walking The Talk
Developing trust is like a deep lake that is beginning to freeze over. First when the weather gets cold, you feel very safe walking in the mud that used to suck at your boots. Then the waters edge grows firm enough to support you. That is what it is like when you...
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