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Change doesn’t have to be painful December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work No comments

The challenges facing government employees are HUGE but the solutions don’t need to be painful. Change is only hard when we are unwilling to let go of the past. We all have this weird need to justify the “rightness” of past behavior.

Who we have been and what we have done has nothing to do with who we are now unless we choose to chain ourselves to our history.

We are not our actions; we are that which acts and
we act based on our best awareness AT THAT TIME.

If we hold on to the past we...

Tired of feeling stressed? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Spirit at Work No comments

I just finished Shawn Achor’s latest book Before Happiness and decided to revisit my first introduction to Mr. Achor’s insights. In the The Happiness Advantage Shawn describes our mis-perceptions about the relationship of happiness and performance this way.

“Most people believe that once they become successful, then they’ll be happy...