Here’s Why It Matters: Design a Life of Clarity, Focus, and Purpose

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We are joined this week by JB Meek, an Operations Executive who has been able to navigate the complexity of a myriad of businesses in creating process and structure for critical deals and even every-day business to help everything move smoothly.

In the first half of our conversation, JB details why it matters to have a growth mindset, and what has surprised him in his career.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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In this episode of Here's Why It Matters, we explore how repetitive, automatic thoughts keep us stuck and how to break free. Discover three powerful techniques to cultivate intentional thinking, rewire your brain, and shift from anxiety to empowerment, especially during challenging times like job loss. Learn practical exercises to start transforming your thoughts and creating positive change in your life today.

Here are three powerful ways you can start cultivating intentional thoughts: (1) Become aware of your automatic thoughts by pausing and identifying them. (2) Interrupt negative thought patterns through intentional pauses, thought journaling, and conscious replacement. (3) Integrate intentional thinking into your daily routine through affirmations and mindful morning practices.

Keep an eye on my website tmrwcoaching.com where you can practice exploring your thoughts and break free of whatever autopilot you might be in.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Let’s talk about you and me...

Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things we can say – to ourselves!

Noticing is the first step, and today we are talking about the power of our thoughts and how we can start to be more intentional with those thoughts. We have an average of 60,000 thoughts every day – and 75% of them are negative! What’s the impact of that? Why does it matter?

Keep an eye on my website www.tmrwcoaching.com where I’ll be launching a think/feel/do exploration to help you be more aware of the talk-track day to day.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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The tech industry has gone through a number of challenges in the last few years. Lots of layoffs – lots of workers displaced. What do you do if you find yourself impacted by a big life change like a layoff? Why is it important to push the pause button and what do you do? Who are you if you aren’t working at your company?

I would love to hear your story. Have you been disrupted by a layoff or some other big life change? Email me! [email protected] I would love to hear what you’re doing to push pause and remember who you are.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Are you a caretaker to everyone else in your life – only to put yourself last?

Let’s dive into why it’s so important to put yourself first, and why it’s important to take stock around what YOU need out of all of the areas in your life for yourself, and why that is essential.

Email me to stay accountable! [email protected] I would love to hear what you’re doing to be a caretaker to yourself first.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Have you ever had someone believe in you? I mean believe in you to the point where you are inspired to step into your power and achieve things you didn’t know were even possible.

How might you create that magic yourself?

Take another listen to Episode 1 where we discussed building your personal roadmap – lots of strategies are used to manifest what you truly desire in your life.

Email me to stay accountable! [email protected] I would love to hear what you’re doing to welcome change and believe in yourself.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Strategy isn’t just for your professional life. How do you stay aligned with where YOU want to go next? In what ways do you honor yourself? How do you know when it’s time to switch-up the strategy?

Join us for Part 2 of our conversation – with Karen Holop and Monique LaLonde.

Here is a bit more about each of them:

Karen Holop

Karen is a product leader with 15+ years of experience in building customer-centric enterprise solutions at companies like Workday and Oracle. At Infinitus Systems, an AI startup revolutionizing healthcare back-office operations, she led product and customer enablement, driving adoption and scaling the product to support 2x transaction growth year over year. Recognized for her ability to foster cross-functional collaboration, Karen combines curiosity and empathy to create cohesive and impactful product solutions. She is passionate about using technology to create efficiencies that shift organizations from reactive, tactical operations to proactive, strategy-driven decision-making.

Monique LaLonde

Monique is a Product Design & UX Leader with 15+ years of experience creating customer experiences that are deeply rooted in research, data, and user needs.

She’s led multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop intuitive product and platform experiences for brands like REI, Expedia, and T-Mobile.

She’s known for evangelizing product vision and design thinking, inspiring high-performing teams through an inclusive, customer-centric design culture, and building trusted relationships across matrixed global organizations.

Resources:

• Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Deave Evans
• Find Your Unicorn Space by Eve Rodsky
• A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek (Podcast)

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Join us for a conversation about the importance of strategy. What it is, why it’s important – and how to protect time for it. For this conversation, I’m joined by two amazing humans: Karen Holop and Monique LaLonde.


Here is a bit more about each of them:

Karen Holop

Karen is a product leader with 15+ years of experience in building customer-centric enterprise solutions at companies like Workday and Oracle. At Infinitus Systems, an AI startup revolutionizing healthcare back-office operations, she led product and customer enablement, driving adoption and scaling the product to support 2x transaction growth year over year. Recognized for her ability to foster cross-functional collaboration, Karen combines curiosity and empathy to create cohesive and impactful product solutions. She is passionate about using technology to create efficiencies that shift organizations from reactive, tactical operations to proactive, strategy-driven decision-making.

Monique LaLonde

Monique is a Product Design & UX Leader with 15+ years of experience creating customer experiences that are deeply rooted in research, data, and user needs. 

She’s led multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop intuitive product and platform experiences for brands like REI, Expedia, and T-Mobile. 

She’s known for evangelizing product vision and design thinking, inspiring high-performing teams through an inclusive, customer-centric design culture, and building trusted relationships across matrixed global organizations. 

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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The year seems to fly by, and because it goes so fast, it’s critical to capture how you’re tracking to goals all year long. Join us to discover strategies for measuring where you are, where you’ve been, and where you want to be in the future.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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It’s that time of year! We are rapidly approaching the end of the year, and you know what that means. End of year performance prep time. Join us for a conversation around the importance of identifying a strategy for highlighting your impact for the year – and why it’s important to amplify your contributions.

Here’s Why It Matters is your space for clarity, focus, and personal growth strategies—so you can finally align your actions with your goals.

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Find out more about Teresa here: https://www.tmrwcoaching.com/

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© 2024 - 2026 Teresa Washburn