What 2022 has taught me about health, happiness, and leadership.
At the end of every “Year in Review” mega-post, I compile a list of all the major Life Lessons I’ve learned that year. A couple years ago, I started the tradition of separating this into a separate post from the main 2022 Year In Review post.
In compiling these lessons, I noticed they fell into 3 major categories. I have grouped them accordingly:
Leadership & Relationships
Success & Happiness
Health & Well-Being
Feel free to skip to the sections most interesting or relevant to you. Or just go through them all if you’re feeling in the mood.
“Nice Guy, according to Dr. Robert Glover, a pioneering expert on the Nice Guy Syndrome, is a man who believes he is not okay just as he is. He is convinced that he must become what he thinks others want him to be liked, loved, and get his needs met. He also believes that he must hide anything about himself that might trigger a negative response in others.
The paradigm of the Nice Guy Syndrome is driven by three faulty covert contracts. Nice Guys believe:
If I am good, then I will be liked and loved.
If I meet other people’s needs without them having to ask, then they will meet my needs without me having to ask.
If I do everything right, then I will have a smooth, problem-free life.
The inauthentic and chameleon-like approach to life causes Nice Guys to often feel frustrated, confused, and resentful. Subsequently, these men are often anything but nice.
This process of recovery from the Nice Guy Syndrome allows men to move through:
Depression
Social anxiety and shyness
Codependency
Low self-esteem
Loneliness and hopelessness
Feelings of failure
Lack of confidence and purpose
Compulsive behaviors and addictions
Feeling stuck in life
Contrary to what the title might seem to imply, No More Mr. Nice Guy does not teach men how to be not nice. Dr. Glover shows men how to become what he calls Integrated Males. Becoming integrated does not mean becoming different or better. It means being able to accept all aspects of oneself. An integrated male can embrace everything that makes him unique – his power, his assertiveness, his humor, his courage, and his mission, as well as his fears, his imperfections, his mistakes, his rough edges, and his dark side.” -Audible
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At the end of every “Year in Review” mega-post, I compile a list of all the major Life Lessons I’ve learned that year. A couple years ago, I started the tradition of separating this into a separate post from the main 2021 Year In Review post.
In compiling these lessons, I noticed they fell into 4 major categories. I have grouped them accordingly:
People & Relationships
Career & Success
Health & Well-Being
Social Media & Content Creation
Feel free to skip to the sections most interesting or relevant to you. Or just go through them all if you’re feeling in the mood.
“Most of us believe that we will finally feel satisfied and content with our lives when we get the good news we have been waiting for, find a healthy relationship, or achieve one of our personal goals. However, this rarely happens. Good fortune is often followed by negative emotions that overtake us and result in destructive behaviors. “I don’t deserve this,” “this is too good to be true,” or any number of harmful thought patterns prevent us from experiencing the joy and satisfaction we have earned.
In The Big Leap, Hendricks reveals a simple yet comprehensive program for overcoming this barrier to happiness and fulfillment, presented in a way that engages both the mind and heart. Working closely with more than 1,000 extraordinary achievers in business and the arts, from rock stars to Fortune 500 executives, whose stories are featured in these pages, the book describes the four hidden fears that are at the root of the Upper Limit Problem.
The Big Leap delivers a proven method for first identifying which of these four fears prevents us from reaching our personal upper limit, and then breaking through that limitation to achieve what Hendricks refers to as our Zone of Genius. Hendricks provides a clear path for achieving our true potential and attaining not only financial success but also success in love and life.” -Audible
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I appreciate every donation as it goes directly to the maintenance costs of my blog and creation of new content. 😊
What 2020 has taught me about success, people, and my well-being.
The best way to reflect is to sit on a couple of stools in a park while dressed like a flower boy in a wedding
At the end of every “Year in Review” mega-post, I compile a list of all the major Life Lessons I’ve learned that year. Last year, I started the tradition of separating this into a separate post from the main 2020 Year In Review post.
In compiling these lessons, I noticed they fell into 3 major categories and have grouped them accordingly:
Career & Success
People & Relationships
Health & Well-Being
Feel free to skip to the sections most interesting or relevant to you. Or just go through them all if you’re feeling in the mood.
How to thrive as a scrum master in an agile scrum team.
I’ve been a Scrum Master for almost 4 years working with 10 different teams across 3 different company cultures.
No matter the product, business area, or company environment, there are several common skills needed to be an effective scrum master and help your team deliver value to the customers.
Here are three of the biggest tips for helping your scrum teams thrive.
What 2019 has taught me about life, people, dating, and myself.
This is the face I make when I’m thinking… thinking about what face I should make for this photo.
At the end of every “Year in Review” mega-post, I compile a list of all the major Life Lessons I’ve learned that year. For 2019, I realized that this list ended up becoming longer than the rest of the blog post. Therefore, I decided to separate them out as a sort of addendum to the main post.
In compiling these lessons, I noticed they fell into 4 major categories and have grouped them accordingly:
Principles of Life and Growth
What I’ve Learned About Myself
People Skills & Leadership
Dating & Relationships
Feel free to skip to the sections most interesting or relevant to you. Or just go through them all if you’re feeling in the “personal development” mood today.
“What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?”
What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.
The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques – she takes the listener from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed audiobook you’ll find:
Marlo Yonocruz 