Category: Emotional Intelligence
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The “Nice” Trap: Why High Empathy Isn’t Enough to Save My Sanity
Assess and learn how to leverage your emotional intelligence. Read Brittany Wren’s experience with EQ-i 2.0 assessment.
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The Power of Imposter Syndrome: Leveraging Your Fears for Greater Growth
Most high achievers feel like a fraud sometimes. Learn to leverage imposter syndrome for growth. I help clients do just that.
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Both Things Can Be True
Ever notice how the things we care about most can also be the things that are the hardest? If you are a parent you might immediately think of raising your kids as something that falls into this category. I have heard parenting aptly described as both the best and hardest job you will ever have.…
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When to Ask for Help
If I am honest, I have a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to asking for help. Both for myself and for others. I feel this most keenly when I am interacting with young leaders and new business owners. On one hand, I expect others, and myself, to work to be independent and figure…
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Gratitude & Reflection
Celebrating progress is difficult. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, but like many others, I am terrible at celebrating wins. My instinct is to just keep pushing forward to the next thing because solving problems and overcoming challenges is what I love to do. I also don’t like sitting still. I know many of you…
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Mastering Mondays
No matter your situation, Monday mornings often carry a reputation as the most dreaded day of the week. For many, the thought of leaving behind the weekend’s relative leisure and stepping into a hectic work week can be met with a sense of reluctance or even anxiety. However, as a business coach who firmly believes…
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What do you expect?
We have all felt some level of disappointment with other people in our lives on various occasions. Whether it is when your kid doesn’t take out the trash, your partner doesn’t make dinner, or your co-worker doesn’t offer to help you on a project when you know they have time on their hands and you…
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Keeping Plans on Track
Anyone who has ever made plans has experienced those plans being completely derailed for one reason or the other. Think about it for a minute. Whether it is dinner plans with friends, plans for your career, plans for your family, or even a business plan we have all experienced plans not going as we had…
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Embracing Change
I love my habits and routines as much as anyone. In fact, the consistency of some of my habits is a big factor in the success I have had in my life. Some of the structure I have in place even gives me a lot of comfort when things get hectic. However, at times the…
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Leadership is a Responsibility
When I started my first leadership role about 25 years ago I was in my early 20s. I remember feeling a sense of pride to be put in a leadership position. I thought it went well. I had a couple of employees who did good work and it seemed pretty easy. I had no idea…
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Mucking Around
Life is a series of constant transitions. There are some transitions most of us handle without thinking much about it. From sleeping to waking, from sitting to standing, from work life to home life. Then, there are those transitions that require intentional thought and can be difficult. Getting a new job, starting a business, the…
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Whitewater Rafting
Generally, I feel like a “create the flow” approach to life has worked well for me. When I think about my life and accomplishments, I feel like a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have actively pursued whatever I was after. I don’t think the same things would have happened…
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Who do you want to be?
Well, it is a new year so everyone is thinking about New Year’s resolutions and talking about goal setting. Most of which will be broken or forgotten by the time you are reading this. We generally don’t go about setting goals the right way. We get caught up in the hype and the noise of…
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It’s Ok to Quit
I would venture to guess many of you hate quitting as much as I do. We live in a culture where quitting isn’t exactly celebrated. In fact, just the opposite is true. Persistence, grit and determination are the qualities we aspire to display. We are taught that our heroes embody these characteristics. I value those…
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Imposter Syndrome
The first time I sent a proposal to a potential client to pay for my coaching services I had a strong sense that they were going to say no. I told myself I wasn’t a professional coach, who was I to ask to get paid for this work. I got an immediate yes. This person…
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Getting Things Done
What is the best idea you’ve ever had that you haven’t acted on? Why have you not acted on it? How would your life change if you could get it done? We all have those things that we have always wanted to do, but have never completed. The reason is usually a combination of three…
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Trust Your Gut
When was the last time you made a big decision? How much time and energy did you spend agonizing over it? We make thousands of decisions every day. Most of them without even thinking about it. Yet, when it comes to the big decisions we spend a lot of time thinking and searching for the…
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Scaling Yourself & Empowering Others
One of the hardest things for both new and experienced leaders to do is delegate. I have experienced this myself and seen it happen time and time again with those I lead and coach. It is difficult from both a tactical and theoretical perspective. The first hurdle to get over is our emotional reluctance to…
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Planting Seeds
I have lived in the same house for about twenty years. When we bought the house it was relatively new and one of the things I really liked about it was the huge backyard that was a blank slate. There were a couple of small trees, but no other plants or landscaping to speak of. Now,…
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Working on a Growth Mindset
It wasn’t that long ago if you told me I’d be writing a blog like this as part of my coaching business I would have not believed you. Frankly, I wasn’t even sure launching my business was going to happen. At times it seemed that there were just too many obstacles and too little time. …