Colin
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Facing your Fears
Are you a coach or a boss?
Engaged employees are 59% more likely to stay and show loyalty.
Engagement starts with listening, ongoing support, and coaching.
Employees are looking for a company with:
- Purpose
- Bosses who coach
- Ongoing performance and career conversations
- Leaders who maximize their strengths
- A job that is blended into their life
Are you meeting the moment with your peers and employees?
Defeating Average
Colin
Focus for the week
10 Letters a Day
Staying connected to those on the ground as you hit higher altitude is critical to make sure you don’t lose sight of the people you serve.
Are you growing on purpose?
“One can choose to go backward toward safety or go forward towards growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
– Abraham Maslow
It’s a tough time. Winter is coming. The one thing I have focused on daily is getting outside, breathing fresh air, going for a walk with the family, and taking vitamin D.
If you don’t fill your car with the right type of gas, you aren’t getting good mileage from the tank.
It can seem easier to stay inside and hibernate, but in the end, it’s a harder road.
Growth is not easy, and it’s the only way to move forward.
Challenging you to get outside for three fresh air walks this week.
Defeating Average in Covid.
Colin
Take the time to prioritize your day
- Win the morning
- Put your oxygen mask on first before helping others
- Front-load the day
- Be intentional on what you are committed to
- Be equally clear on what you are not
Sleep is the new status symbol
In these times sleep has never been more important! We are all worn down, looking into screens or strained, each on our own personal journey.
Quoted from a great NY Times article “studies upon studies have shown how bad sleep weakens the immune system, impairs learning and memory, contributes to depression and other mood and mental disorders, as well as obesity, diabetes, cancer and an early death.”
“Sleep is the single most effective thing you can do to reset your brain and body,” Dr. Walker of U.C. Berkeley said. “We have a saying in medicine: What gets measured, gets managed.”
“I can see sleep being another weapon in competitive parenting and career-building,” Ms. Salzman said.
Some top reminders from a recent podcast appearance of Dr. Walker.
- Reduce Blue light from all devices. Leave them out of the room or put in a drawer
- Wear an eye mask to blackout light or use blackout blinds for your room
- Wind down an hour before bed and turn off the TV
- Read a book before bed
- If you go to bed for 8 hours, you are most likely to get 7 hours. Measuring with sleep apps will tell you exactly how much
- Stop drinking water between 4-6 pm, small sips with dinner to prevent getting up during the night.
- Eat three hours before bedtime. Your digestive system uses a ton of your body’s energy.
One of the many great articles on the topic.
Defeating Average in recharging the mind and body.
Colin
Action does not always mean traction
One of our senior leaders shared this week.
In an action-oriented world, sometimes we ride the emotional roller coaster or expend more energy than we need.
Sometimes we need too:
- Be curious: listen more than speak
- Reflect: on why you may be getting push back
- Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes: Ask, what it’s like to be them?
- 2 percent rule: Where is he or she 2 percent right?
It’s never been more important to understand both sides.
Defeating Average.
Colin
Character, Empathy, Decency
There is a sea change upon us. It’s time to get back to civility and what’s possible instead of division and angst.
Kamala Harris breaking barriers as the first woman and woman of color in the White house!