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It seems we feel the need to choose between a hair cut, a beer, the gym OR human suffering and death.  This is turning out to be a tough choice?!   2021 theme: resilience May topic: power Weekly Focus: priorities steer power  This week's question for reflection:  what are your current priorities and how are these particular priorities driving or steering the way you apply or utilize your power?   The link to interviews with Drew Barnes and Dr. Joe Vipond in Alberta.   Links to walk with me: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

How well are you able to listen to understand those who experience the world differently from you? Communication requires the work of all parties seeking to engage together. 2021 theme: resilience May topic: power Weekly Focus: words are powerful This week's question for reflection:  how do I ensure my words express clarity to make my influence and power responsible? Additionally how do I listen for greater understanding of others too?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

How are you exercising your power and influence at work? How are you making your power work for what you want to influence in the world? 2021 theme: resilience May topic: power Weekly Focus: working through power This week's question for reflection: when am I responsible to use the power or influence I have to make change or raise red flags & what do I need to do to ensure I see my own power and influence.     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

When adversity is big and dramatic our response will match it. When it takes the form of a slow but constant drone, it can have an equally traumatic impact but is often left to fester. 2021 theme: resilience April topic: adversity Weekly Focus: the constant drone...the accumulative effect  This week's question for reflection: the blahs: when adversity is constant but not dramatic, what effect can it have and how do you combat it?   Check out the Adam Grant NYT article I mention.   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.     Adam Grant

Calculating risk is really difficult. Not because it can't be measured but because humans are irrational at heart. 2021 theme: resilience April topic: adversity Weekly Focus: the risks in adversity This week's question for reflection:  how have I reacted in the past to potential risks associated with adverse events and what does this reaction say about me and what are the related lessons?     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

We may first see the drama in every adverse event, however, the sooner we move beyond the drama the more clearly we see the lessons. 2021 theme: resilience April topic: adversity Weekly Focus: adversities' drama This week's question for reflection: what is the drama, that I associate with my current adversity, that is clouding my perspective and blocking or obscuring the available lessons.     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

The way we process an adverse event, over time, becomes habitual. Is it time to reflect on the approach you are using? 2021 theme: resilience April topic: adversity Weekly Focus: processing adverse events   This week's question for reflection: what if the way I typically process adversity determines how I turn it to my favour?   Use this link to quickly find Episode 2 to which I refer in this episode.   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.  

Practicing our capacity to act with courage ensures we are able to apply it wisely when it counts. 2021 theme: resilience March topic: courage Weekly Focus: courage to act   This week's question for reflection:  what is one thing I can do to sharpen my capacity to act with courage when it counts?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday. FIND all past newsletters for your review. Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.  

The form courage takes reveals character. Are we gracious and measured in our response to aggressive or passive aggressive acts against us?  2021 theme: resilience March topic: courage Weekly Focus: courage as character   This week's question for reflection: when pushed to the breaking point how will you exercise courage without making matters worse?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Subscribe to my newsletter for more on this topic on Wednesday  Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.  

Perhaps Courage is its own reward. It reveals our character and enhances our reputation. Perhaps the best outcomes are possible when we find a way to blend courage with humility. Vulnerability enhances and informs our strength and resilience. 2021 theme: resilience March topic: courage Weekly Focus: the reward or benefit   This week's question for reflection:  how have you experienced the response to acts of courage and how has it impacted your behaviour, performance/success?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

Happy International Women's Day. As women we all do better when we are able to challenge each other AND support each other. Together a healthy dose of each makes for a better outcome. To follow up on my focus on the courage of a bully from last week, I focus this week on how we need to be willing to stand up together against systems and practices that keep us down. 2021 theme: resilience March topic: courage Weekly Focus: courage to stand up   This week's question for reflection: when and how do I best apply my courage to advocate for my self or others regardless of the cost to me? That's real courage!   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

We've all heard that bullies are insecure. That makes sense. Does that mean we should challenge them? They fear feeling vulnerable so that may back-fire. In this episode I explore how the bully applies their courage with my own story of being bullied. 2021 theme: resilience March topic: courage Weekly Focus: a bully's courage   This week's question for reflection:  when does my courage to act or speak, silence or hamper the capacity to speak, respond or engage in another? When does it become bullying?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

Peace of Mind offers a significant boost to our capacity to perform. Workplaces and team leaders who understand and act on this knowledge generate a much higher level of respect and loyalty that then translates into significantly better outcomes. 2021 theme: resilience February topic: peace Weekly Focus: peace of mind   This week's question for reflection: how am I embedding a peace of mind into my daily practice as a leader and individual and what is one thing I can add to generate and share more of this?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

When we can find peace in the many valleys of our life we position our self to learn and grow in profound ways. In ways that help us be better when we once again reach the mountain tops. In fact, perhaps when we can find a quiet peace in our lowest moments, we realize exponential growth. 2021 theme: resilience February topic: peace Weekly Focus: peace in the valleys   This week's question for reflection: who do I need to be or want to be in my current circumstance to support my capacity to see the possibilities that exist and how to make them a reality?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19 Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate.

To keep the peace may be the desired outcome. It is important to examine the trade offs in every situation. Look at the costs and the benefits. We generally benefit from understanding why we seek a particular outcome. 2021 theme: resilience February topic: peace Weekly Focus: keeping the peace   This week's question for reflection:  how do I avoid telling myself the truth and owning up to the truth with others in an effort to keep the peace to make my life easier?   Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19  

When the ego takes control, the quest for peace can be eroded and even perverted. A systemic hypocrisy takes control. It silences the truth and warps perception.  For peace, and even a hope for reconciliation, truth must be sought with all our might. Long term resilience requires that we continually seek the truth.   2021 theme: resilience February topic: peace Weekly Focus: systemic hypocrisy   This week's question for reflection: what can I do today to reduce my participation in a group think approach that silences dissenting voices or seeks to avoid taking constructive action or challenge my current perspective?     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence For the rest of this week you may still find an opening at https://roxbartel.as.me/COVID-19

When we deny having power we miss opportunities to exercise it in the quest for better outcomes in every way.  It is time to use our power and in doing so expand the power and influence of others.   2021 theme: resilience January topic: love Weekly Focus: power   This week's question for reflection:  how am I contributing to powerfully loving relationships in every aspect of my life to cultivate mutuality and shared accountability and responsibility? Moreover, how can I be a more effective mentor or support when opportunities present them self?      Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence

When we choose to wear armour, we limit our capacity to connect with others and be effective in influencing and engaging with others.   2021 theme: resilience January topic: love Weekly Focus: vulnerability   This week's question for reflection: what is the armour I typically wear and what possibilities do I fail to see or realize as a result?     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence  

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."  -Leonardo da Vinci     2021 theme: resilience January topic: love Weekly Focus: urgency    This week's question for reflection:  where can I develop greater urgency by who I am being, to demonstrate my passion and love and expand my resilience in doing so.     Links to walk together: Find me on LINKEDIN and connect with or follow me there. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation  Learn more about my Resilience: why, what and how to perform with excellence