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Creating Calm with Distance and Delay

By Kelechi Udoagwu “The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” – Seneca We see it all the time: the mum screaming in road rage, the man who gets in a fight because someone cut in front of him in a line. Usually, we are the calm ones watching from a distance, at least I am,

How to Be More Flexible with Your Experience and Intuition to Make Better Decisions

By Victoria Brodsky Past experiences can leave us rigid and inflexible when it comes to decision making. Though experience is helpful, intuition should not be left out of the decision-making process. Learn how to combine past experiences and personal intuition to make the best decisions for personal and professional development. Intuition vs. Gut Feeling  Intuition

My Intuition

By Lee Ruggles Intuition, as defined by Psychology Today, is a form of knowledge that appears in consciousness without obvious deliberation. It is not magical but rather a faculty in which hunches are generated by the unconscious mind rapidly sifting through past experience and cumulative knowledge. It can also be defined as a feeling, an

When We Must Stop to Keep Going

By Elly Mullins One morning I woke up and decided I wanted to run a marathon.  This was not a latent idea that had been swirling around my brain, though I was a regular runner living in a runner’s city.  But Boston had just experienced an attack during the marathon, and I felt moved by

Use Intuition to Your Advantage

By Kelechi Udoagwu “Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs I’ve had a strong sense of intuition and leaned into it from a young age. After reading tons of grown-up self-help books from my dad’s library before I was a teenager, I developed a

A Shoulder to Lean On

By Lee Ruggles The phone rings as I finish my first cup of coffee. Good morning, I chirp cheerfully. I can’t stand the heat. I really wish I hadn’t moved down here! It’s only a few months, I tell him. You could move further north, I add. Yeah, but I’m also bored out of my

Getting Comfortable with Making Intuitive Decisions

By Victoria Brodsky Learning to recognize and follow your intuition takes practice, self awareness, and confidence. Uncover your inner qualities to get comfortable making intuitive decisions.  “Do You Have an Intuitive Sense One Way or the Other?” During this unprecedented year, many of us have taken the time to do various forms of self reflection.

Discovering Faith in Yourself

By Laura Crandall How intuition and self-esteem brought me back from burnout. I was supposed to be over-the-moon happy. I’d just completed the biggest thing on my List of Things That Would Be Wonderful To Do:  I’d graduated from Harvard.  The idea first emerged when I was 16 and beginning to think about college. But

Intuition – The Sixth Sense

By Lee Ruggles I remember where I was sitting when it all started. The teacher was at the front of the room. It was early afternoon when it hit me softly but firmly. I had been going about this life-thing all wrong. The key to true popularity and acceptance was to agree with what the

Better than “Normal”

By Laura Crandall Leading with our best work yet Have you ever gotten lost in the woods or really turned-around in an unfamiliar city? Did you, while trying to figure out where you were and how to get to where you wanted to go, decide that being disoriented was probably how life would feel from