Valerie’s Voice
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What Are Your 10 Dreams for The New Year?
This was a turbulent year for so many people, and for the world in general. Although we can always find gratitude in our lives, there are times when searching for gratitude doesn’t come as easily as one would hope. Sometimes knowing the year is over…
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How Convenient Is Your “State of Overwhelm”?
Any chance you have felt overwhelmed at some point in the past 6 months? Do you feel as if there are not enough hours in the day? Perhaps you have no energy left to sort through the piles of work, and you are completely drained before your “second shift” begins at home each…
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Who’s Got Your Back?
At a lunch I attended at the Consulate General of Canada in New York, a group of businesswomen engaged in a thought provoking discussion about female leadership and success. The topics raised during the lunch had me thinking about my female clients and their…
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Interval Training at the Office?
Do you ever tell yourself: “If only I had more time in the day”? Here’s a shift for you: forget about managing your time, and start managing your energy. Energy is our most precious resource. The number of hours in our day is fixed, but…
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Your Work Habits: Some Laws are Meant to be Broken
Do you ever find that when you give yourself more time to complete a task, you: (a) Procrastinate and then work at the last minute to get it done, despite your intentions to the contrary; and/or (b) Spend more time than necessary on the task,…
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Is Your Partner the Problem? 4 Questions to Ask
Published in Inc. Magazine – Bad chemistry between partners can break an otherwise solid company. These questions can help you tell whether you’ve got the right co-pilot. As a professional development coach, I spend a lot of time helping clients determine who they can trust in…
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What Is Your BOLD Move?
As spring arrives each year, it unearths more than just the daffodils and cherry blossoms. Amidst the blooming, the breeze and the sunlight, a certain restlessness often appears. You have finished your winter “hibernation”, you are ready to go out and play, but when you…
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Which Wolf Do You Feed?
Over the past few weeks, I have listened to my clients tell fantastic, well reasoned stories about the facts of their lives. The facts are real – be it a conflict, a failure, an extremely busy household, or a toxic work environment. The negative, defeating…
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HOW STRONG ARE YOUR ABs?
In the lazy days of summer, you may have time to reflect on the year so far, and to think about what you want to achieve in the fall. It is ingrained in most of you to think of September as the time to roll…
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How Often Do You Score 20%?
As a lawyer, corporate professional, or business owner, it seems that you can spend endless hours churning out the work, adding more to your to-do list, and running a mile-a-minute until you crash at night, only to start again the next day. You have all…
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What’s Getting in Your Way?
Do you ever wonder where that little voice comes from that pops up at the most inconvenient times? The voice that says “you aren’t good enough”, “you aren’t smart enough”, “that’s too risky for you”, or “you will fail and there is nothing worse than…
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Are You Willing to Let Go?
At this time of year, many of you may take stock of your “stuff” and realize that you have too much of it. Whether it’s because Santa is coming to town, your in-laws are coming to town, or you want a clean living space when…