Pausing When The Heat Of Difficult Situations Is Turned Up
It can be difficult during challenging situations to slow down to counterbalance heightened emotions with important values. The intense heat or urgency of a situation can quickly boil over the rim of our emotional container. When the fire of a situation is raging and quickly spreading, it can be difficult…
Pausing When The Heat Of Difficult Situations Is Turned Up
Narratives in Life Pausing to consider our response-ability in challenging situations can help us to Get on the Same Page with our self and others important to us. Asking, “What can I do differently that might make this situation better?” Consider the next few narratives. Have you heard a backstory…
Centering Clay on a Potter’s Wheel
A Metaphor for Life Clay represents a metaphor for a life of relationships-and situations-and you are the potter. Life will offer its external and internal expectations of what the final piece should look like. It is the potter who gets to decide when: to add pressure and to ease up;…
Leadership Lenses of 4S Leaders
It’s important to note that many of the perspectives and references we share refer to leaders and leadership; however, don’t dismiss their advice if you’re not currently a recognized leader whose job description includes responsibility for others as, we must all take responsibility for our own behavior and achievement. Lead…
Asking and Answering Real Questions
We all instinctively know that Getting on the Same Page with our self and others is important, but why is it so elusive and difficult to accomplish? We believe it’s so important that at Simple. Not Easy, we’re hitting the reset button and designating 2023: The Year of Getting on…
Asking and Answering Real Questions
Self-Positioning in Challenging Times
Have you ever found it hard to deal with the people in your life, whether at work or in your personal life? Sometimes, you might wish you had some help or guidance to figure out what to do next. We’ve helped many people with this problem, but we’ve also found…
Getting on The Same Page: Situations & Challenges
We all instinctively know that Getting on the Same Page with our self and others is important, but why is it so elusive and difficult to accomplish? We believe it’s so important that at Simple. Not Easy, we’re hitting the reset button and designating 2023: The Year of Getting on…
Secret Sauce of Unstoppable Teams
That Know How to Get on the Same Page, Literally The Greek philosopher Aristolte’s quote, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, inspired Google’s 2012 research—code named Project Aristotle. The purpose of the research, which included 180+ of their teams, was to help Google understand the ‘secret…
Journaling and the Best Next Step Part 2
Journaling for a few minutes each day can expand your experiences without the expense of travel. And it only requires a small investment of your time. In part 1 of our Journaling and Best Next Steps blog, we talked about maintaining and building strong mental muscles as part of our…