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Joy Beat Blog

Staying connected with JOY matters. I have found that reading inspirational stories and insights around joy greatly increases my joy factor. I have also found that sharing some of my best tools and techniques for keeping JOY alive are useful and helpful. I created the JOY beat to provide a fun and joyful blog for you. In addition, it’s a way for you to keep up to date with all the happenings in our Life Full of JOY world. Don’t miss a beat-sign up today! 

Gratitude

The Gratitude Lens

At this point in my life, I’ve worked with hundreds of clients—it’s probably more like thousands. I don’t say this out of ego. I say it to reinforce experience. What I’m about to share with you is a little secret sauce I’ve learned from all of these amazing, brilliant individuals.

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Humanity

The Power of a Healing Conversation

I believe everyone has, to some degree, an unfinished conversation they need to address—perhaps an unresolved conflict, a misunderstanding with someone, a broken relationship. Recently, through hearing a friend’s experience, I realized the incredible gift and power that exists within a healing conversation. My friend had done something wrong. In

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Love

5 Steps to Getting Out of Your Own Way

I was recently working with a client who told me that the harder she tried to get something done, the more it seemed she would run into walls. One example was trying to get something to work on her television. But when she finally let go of expectation and frustration,

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Connection

The Search For Connections Begins With Yourself

I cannot tell you how many times I have heard this phrase in a coaching session—I’m searching for something but I don’t really know what it is. As the coaching progresses, what the answer usually boils down to is connection. It’s often connection with others and humanity, but usually this

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Responsibility

Do You Need to Stop Being a Firefighter?

One of my clients was working on having better focus at work. This client struggled with distractions from colleagues all the time. She felt like she was constantly putting out fires and said, “I need to stop being a firefighter.” When she said that to me, I had to put

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Choice

Taking Full Ownership of Choice

As I start writing this blog, I am aware of three things: These observations may seem obvious and yet, sometimes the obvious needs to be stated. I am continually fascinated by the number of times I witness conversations where individuals will answer a question related to a choice with, well,

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