by Helen Kain | Living on Purpose | 0 Comments
How am I doing right now? Am I winning? Moving forward, or treading water? Good questions. How do we know? To live life on purpose, instead of by accident, we need to get really clear on what we are striving toward. What ideal looks like. Every one of us is...
by Helen Kain | Living on Purpose, Motivation, Values | 0 Comments
We are born to strive. And to thrive. But strive towards what, exactly? Innately gifted to succeed against adversity, we rise to the challenge again and again. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and weigh back in. Our biggest challenge is picking the right...
by Helen Kain | Focus, Home, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Self-Control, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind, Willpower | 0 Comments
Devices. Our beloved Devices. The siren call of an arriving text or email captures our attention even when we know we should be concentrating on the task at hand. We sneak a peek at dangerous or inopportune times, whilst driving, for example, or reading to our...
by Gordon Parry | Career, Home, Mastery | 0 Comments
I’m expected to perform at ever-higher levels at work. My spouse is on my case because I’m rarely home, and when I am, I’m not really present. We’re shuffling the kids from one activity to another, meals are taken on the run, and I can’t remember the last time I had...
by Helen Kain | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Disorders, Home, Mental Fitness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind | 0 Comments
When most of us think about mental health, we ascribe its presence or absence largely to luck or having good genes. We vaguely (or actively) dread the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s and cross our fingers it doesn’t happen to us. Well, there is a whole lot of good...
by Gordon Parry | Business, Career, Energy, High Performance, Home, Leadership, Mastery, Mental Fitness, Motivation, Strengths | 0 Comments
We recently shared a blog on Todd Henry’s terrific book Die Empty. We love this book because it encourages each of us to make a contribution, the unique contribution that only we can make. Henry describes what he calls the Siren Song of Mediocrity as “a...
by Gordon Parry | Career, Flourishing, Home, Positive Core | 0 Comments
“I know that my contribution is defined by how I choose to engage the battles I face every day, and that my legacy is nothing but a series of choices to engage in or abstain from action.” Todd Henry The title grabbed my attention and the subtitle clinched the sale:...
by Helen Kain | Energy, Flourishing, High Performance, Home, Leadership, Mind/Body Connection, Self Confidence | 0 Comments
It’s right in the name of our company. At Authentic Impact, we have long recognized how important it is to be authentic at work, at home, in our relationships, and with ourselves. This article The Surprising Ways Inauthenticity at Work is Hurting You, by Molly...
by MAI Team | Disorders, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Home, Mastery, Mental Fitness | 0 Comments
We all know someone like that. They may be friends, co-workers or family members. Always needing to be the center of attention, life revolves around them. There isn’t enough oxygen in the room for them and anyone else. They’re narcissists....
by MAI Team | Home, Self-Control, The Mind, Willpower | 0 Comments
When you think about yourself today and sometime in the future, which of the circle pairs below best depicts how you see yourself? Second question – how are those New Year’s resolutions going? I ask because a Walter Mischel, of The Marshmallow Test:...
