Why do we keep putting off decisions? Is it procrastination, lack of discipline or something more practical like needing more information?

It's none of those things.

It's the story you're telling yourself about what happens after the decision. The "what if..." on the other side.

More than the "what if" story itself, it's about the negative emotion that accompanies those negative possibilities.

In this week's episode, Elissa shares that you can't actually avoid making decisions because even the act of not deciding means you're choosing what you have over and over.

If your brain is playing out negative possibilities, then you owe it to yourself to give equal air time to the positive "what if."

Being stuck in indecision doesn't mean you're broken, need better habits or need to be fixed in any way. You just need to tell yourself better stories.

When you tell yourself better stories, you're on your way to making intentional, conscious decisions without hesitation.

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The day-to-day kinds of things at work make it easy to forget why your role exists in the company. That causes a problem because when your work life becomes routine, you start to lose the essence of it - the meaning behind the role and the purpose you are fulfilling through it.

And when that happens, you can lose yourself, too.

In this week's episode, Elissa shares a mindset you can adopt so that you're always in touch with your own sense of purpose and authority in your career.

By being a consultant to yourself, you can trust the desires, goals and moves you want to make in your career.

Always Be Consulting means:

• Curiosity and asking yourself powerful questions
• Reflection on the answers you give yourself
• Prescribing instead of problem-solving
• Leveraging personal authority for career expansion

When you decide to always be consulting in your career and life you can stay connected to the work that brings you the most fulfillment and happiness.

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• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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Listen in on this Q&A session addressing some of the most pressing, common questions you encounter as a leader--

＞＞What do you do when you're caught in the middle between upper management and your team?

＞＞How do you address a team member about their poor performance?

＞＞What are the best ways to empower team members?

＞＞How do you create a positive team culture?

I'm so excited to share my answers to these very specific circumstances with you. You can be the leader and manager you want to be.

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• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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Most of us have limiting beliefs. It starts out as "other talk" when someone discounts your ideas or ability then becomes habitual negative "self-talk" and a lens through which you determine your capacity for achieving what you desire in your career.

The way to overcome limiting beliefs is through leveraging inside and outside intentions - the way you think, how you show up and what you surround yourself with in your environment.

In this episode, Elissa shares an early career story about how she used the alignment of her inner confidence, personal actions and external environment to build professional capacity and trust for herself and with her customers.

She also shares an easy way to create a less stressful, more organized job search by using your environment as a way to get your mind back on track.

The inside (how you think about yourself) and the outside (your environment and how you show up) are inter-related and integral to tapping into your career capacity.

When you understand this balance you create all kinds of momentum for developing career desires into career reality.

Don't forget to watch the Ted Talk Elissa mentions ::

Amy Cuddy :: Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are

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Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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Great leadership isn't always modeled for us. How can you create good leadership traits within yourself when you've experienced poor examples like:

::lack of support

::lack of trust

::micromanagement

::favoritism

::bullying

This week, I'm going deeper into 5 key principles that you can focus on to strengthen your own leadership performance. These principles get to the heart of leadership, and guide you to becoming the leader you want to be--

1) Competence: how you share what you know

2) Communication: telling your team what you're thinking, and actively listening

3) Character: integrity inspires confidence

4) Clarity: know the way, go the way, and show the way

5) Care: leading with kindness, empathy, and elegance

The good news is that you have time to become a great leader. You don't have to do it overnight. You can invest in yourself and become better and better and better.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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Oprah Winfrey said ::

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

Does this quote both inspire and alienate you? Elissa has a bit of a love/hate relationship to this quote, too. It's called contrast.

The realization that what you want isn't what you have.

But it's possible to use contrast to your advantage when you look at it through the lens of purpose and potential.

In this week's podcast, Elissa shares how to discover what you love about what you're doing today so you can apply it in new contexts.

Identify practical, tactical, strategic and interpersonal "loves" in your day to day. Then discover how you serve others by asking yourself, "Who are the people who are depending on me for their success?"

When you uncover the core things you love and know how to see what you do as service to others, you'll realize you can find these in any role at any level.

It's a skill you can use to survive and thrive in your workplace and career today and whatever you decide to do in your future.

If a belief is a thought you keep on thinking, then courage is an action you keep on taking. This is a truth that will help you create the career you envision.

You may not know exactly how the actions you take will turn out, but when you stay the course and keep showing up, your career falls into place,

How do you develop career courage?

>> Ask yourself good "what if?" questions

>> Start "doing" instead of trying

In this week's episode, Elissa shares a personal career turn that seemed like a dead end but became the actualization of a vision planted years earlier.

She also shares some great questions to ask and ways to change your language so you can keep putting yourself out there.

When you take responsibility for creating your career by combining belief and courage, your career vision becomes inevitable no matter what circumstances might try to say different.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

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• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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Too many of you are out there in a job that is draining the life out of you. In this 100th episode, I'm teaching you how to have a little tough love with yourself--

::Start being real with yourself

::Recognize that you are in a role that is counter to your natural behavioral strengths

::Watch for traps and ways your brain plays it safe

::Look at the truth about your value

Tough love is not a negative. It is being truthful to yourself about your worthiness, your value, and all of your amazingness and leveraging it all for what you want next.

Do not be the obstacle in your own path. You deserve to love your work life.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

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• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

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In order to thrive in your career, you've got to be selling. This might sound frightening. But believe it or not, you are already doing it everyday.

We are all selling all the time. Everything from persuading your little one to do their chores to influencing someone at work to go with your idea is selling.

But we're selling when we aren't thinking about it, too.

When it comes to your career are you selling

• Indecision
• Lack of clarity
• Indifference
• Disbelief

Or are you selling yourself with belief and enthusiasm that's contagious?

In this week's episode, you'll learn how to figure out what you're selling.

If it's not the marketing message you want to put out there, you'll get tips on how to sell yourself to your team, your boss or for your prospective new role.

When you adopt these new "selling" habits, transferring belief and enthusiasm gets easier and easier. They'll be buying what you're selling!

If you think selling yourself isn't necessary. Think again.

If you don't pay attention to what you're selling, you're doing a disservice to the people who need you now and in the future.

More importantly, you're doing a disservice to you and your career.

You're far too valuable to let that happen.

Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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Do you know what your leadership style is?

You have one whether you have a leader/manager role or not.

In this week's podcast, I share four cornerstone behavioral strengths and the implications each of those (depending on which one is dominant for you) has on your natural leadership style.

This is an episode you're going to want to go back to over and over as you put the pieces together of your natural way to lead and how you can leverage your traits and characteristics to get more of what you want in your career.

There are four cornerstones to your behavioral traits and depending on which one is dominant, influences your leadership style.

Are you?

>> Direct, decisive, innovative, authoritative, and competitive

>> Articulate, interactive, persuasive, influential and seeks opportunities

>> Steady, consistent, persistent, dependable, and cautious about change

>> Structured, accurate, loyal, orderly and love procedures

Find out how each of these cornerstones show up in your leadership style and the results, accomplishments and impact you're creating (or have the capacity to create) day-in and day-out at work!

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Resources:

Don't stay in a job that feels bad. I'll help you see your value, release your doubts and feel confident. It's time to make your move.

When you're ready, I can help you ::

Personalized 1:1 Coaching

• Customized coaching and strategizing to land a rewarding new job
• Leverage your career history and transferable skills in your career pivot
• Mindset and strategy to manage and escape a toxic workplace

Schedule Your Possibility Session™

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