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The Power of Your Choices in 2014

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Happy new year everyone! After taking a couple of weeks to relax, reflect and renew, I’m looking forward to the new year. As the year begins, I’m thinking a lot about the power our choices have to shape the course of the next twelve months. Click headline to continue. Personal Presence'

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Mindful Mondays: 15 Ways to Get Ready for the New Year

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As the year winds down and the holiday season is upon us, it’s a great time to reflect on 2014 and plan for 2015. (I When I look back on 2014, one of the biggest things I see in the rearview mirror is the release a couple of months ago of my newest book, Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative.

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Five Ways for Leaders to Get Out of Chronic Fight or Flight

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The impact of trying to stay on top of all of that is that they end up feeling, to use the title of a book I wrote in 2014, overworked and overwhelmed. And, from a physiological standpoint, the reason they feel that way is they’re in a chronic state of fight or flight. With a constant sense of low-grade threat and “what am I missing?”

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Three Benefits of Removing Toxic Leaders

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I wrote three more posts about Snyder ending with one in 2014 about how when you find yourself in a hole you should stop digging. It started in 2009 with a post I wrote about how leaders could succeed just by not doing what he did. That one led to an appearance on the local TV news in D.C.

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Mindful Mondays: Reflect, Then Project

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There’s just something about that blank calendar (or at least more blank than your end of 2014 calendar) that makes hope spring forth that the coming year will be different in the ways that matter most. We''re very close to the time of year when people start thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a good exercise for sure.

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What Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Kapernick Can Teach Us About Setting Goals

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Russell had made her career by casting her in Silver Linings Playbook (a 2013 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Lawrence) and, now, American Hustle (a 2014 Golden Globe for Lawrence - so far.). Less than ten years later she was on stage in Hollywood expressing her amazement that David O. Click headline to continue.

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The Big Reveal for Overworked and Overwhelmed

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Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative is due out in the Fall 2014 from Wiley. But for those who are not we didn’t want you to miss out. So in case you missed the news, I’m writing a new book. This book is for any professional who feels like their RPM is maxed out.