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Your Gut Feeling Is Data — Not Destiny

Have you ever known something before you could explain how you knew it? A gut feeling can carry real information — and it can also carry stress, bias and old fear. Here is a science-informed way to listen inward, check outward, and choose with clarity.

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Resilience

Easily Increase Motivation

Are you feeling unmotivated and stuck? Don’t worry; rebooting our drive system and increasing motivation is a natural ongoing process in healthy brains. Our brain’s innate drive system is “hardwired” to help us survive, conquer, and experience pleasure, and we can learn how to reboot and easily increase our motivation when we feel stuck. Learning

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Teams

A Roadblock to Success – Chronic Pain

When you suffer from chronic pain, you may be unaware of how it can negatively impact your success, including your communication with others and your work performance. Chronic pain can affect every aspect of your life, including your work. It’s possible to learn methods to reduce chronic pain symptoms that may be holding you back at

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Resilience

Joy’s Impact on Better Brain Health

Did you know that JOY is essential for high Cognitive Performance? As we head into Fall’s busy season, we can become overburdened with new and unexpected responsibilities and tasks, increasing our stress levels and diminishing our feelings of joy. This subsequent lack of joyful feelings affects our satisfaction and interactions with others, dampens mental clarity, and affects

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Prioritizing the Mental Health of Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare workers are under extreme stress daily, and it is crucial to prioritize the mental health of healthcare professionals for both their personal well-being and the well-being of their patients. Healthcare workers face constant cultural pressure to provide efficient patient care, and this pressure can lead to mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and

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Brain Drain Protection: 3-minute exercise to defend against burnout

Burnout Protection: Try this evidence-based, 3-minute exercise to bring back your vitality quickly — Overcome Burnout Certainly! Here is the revised text: Brain drain and work-related burnout are significant global issues, particularly among healthcare professionals and business leaders. Many professionals are seeking the fastest and most effective methods to implement a brain drain protection strategy,

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness Benefit at Work and in Life

Mindfulness at Work and in Life Mindfulness practice, in business and in life, is the application of mindfulness in how we approach our job, colleagues, customers, employer, and family over the course of our day. When we bring mindfulness to whatever we are doing, we begin to learn how to integrate a positive behavioral mindset into our

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Nutrition

Praise and the Brain:

Improve Employee Performance with Praise The more that we learn about the human brain, the more that we are astounded by its complexity. One of the brain’s interesting factors is how social interaction affects physical functions and overall attitudes. Research has shown that the power of praise creates a positive response that extends to enhanced feelings of

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Cognitive Reframing: A tool to mitigate Workplace Stress

Stress in the workplace can emanate from a multitude of factors. The precise etiology of workplace stress can be difficult to pinpoint due to the complexity and diversity of modern organizations. However, when left unchecked, stress can affect employee performance, team interactions, and the overall success of an organization. Numerous reports have documented the physical

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Trust at Work Promotes Better Performance and Customer Service

Business leaders have come to understand that trust in the workplace is a critical key for overall success. Many organizations profess work cultures which value trust and inclusivity in their marketing jargon by using the nomenclature such as “transparency” and “open door policy” to entice new staff and encourage existing employees. However, trust is a

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Nutrition

Bringing Mindful Communication Skills to Work

A consistent mindfulness practice has been shown to improve relationships through greater empathy and compassion — suggesting mindfulness training has numerous benefits for the workplace environment, where clear communication, high cognitive performance, and compassionate leadership skills are in high demand. So, how does mindfulness help us recognize and understand communication cues and help to

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CARE for Improvement

The CARE® model is an evidence-based process to get unstuck, achieve rapid results, so you can reach your goals with more ease! CARE® for Improvement is the foundation of Cognitive Performance NeuroCoaching. Here’s a high-level look at how CARE works ⬇️ Cognition: Introduce brain-science to unlock the power of thoughts and build a new #cognitive framework so

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Teams

Improve your thinking, improve your performance.

In our corporate culture today there is a lot of everyday stress that can limit our abilities: deadlines, demanding clients, market changes, office politics. It all adds up. And it doesn’t just make us feel worse at work; it limits our mental abilities in all areas of life. In the field of cognitive performance, we

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Sleep

How a lack of sleep affects our cognitive performance

Are you forgetful or tend to lose focus easily? Do you often forget things or tasks that you are sure you know or is it challenging to concentrate on complex assignments? If so, then you are probably experiencing insomnia or more commonly known as sleeplessness which is detrimental to your cognitive performance. Sleep deprivation affects

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Teams

The Brains Behind Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Conflict and the Brain As a leader of teams, you’re no stranger to conflict. It pervades all aspects of daily life at work; between your employees, between you and your employees, between you and others, and of course, within yourself. Yes, conflict is a human condition. Would you like to learn how to manage conflict

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Optimizing Mental Efficiency and Physical Performance During Times of Stress

Most of us have read numerous articles and studies documenting the damages of stress and burnout. Despite knowing this information, why do we continue to overwork ourselves beyond peak performance levels, only to suffer the damaging results of stress – poor physical and mental health, along with damage to our relationships? The answer lies in who

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Neuroscience

What is NeuroCoaching?

Hello there! After an interview with Mari Frank on Fighting for Love (88.9FM and www.kuci.org), that aired today, November 5th, at 8:30am, I was excited to share what I spoke about with you all. You can listen to the entire interview HERE. I hope that this blog post helps give you insight into the amazing potential

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Motivation

New Year’s Resolution Blues

With a new year comes new opportunities and excitement. You’re likely surrounded by others, like yourself, who have made their new year’s resolutions. Maybe you’ve read posts about goal setting on social media. (Most of us are surrounded by these conversations at this time of year.) Along with these resolutions, though, comes an immense amount

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Mindfulness

The Importance of Holiday Social Awareness

You may agree that the preferred response to daily life events is to be mindfully aware of our interactions with ourselves and others and to use compassionate communication strategies along the way. However, with the holiday season now in full force, you might find yourself feeling overwhelmed and overbooked. You might find that any mindful

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Resilience

Pushing Past Resistance

I don’t know if anyone else has been feeling this lately, but at this time of year, I find myself feeling somewhat resistant and less motivated to complete my to-do list. With the end of the year on the horizon, it’s easy for our thoughts to wander and think about all that we’ve yet to

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Neuroscience

First Annual NeuroCoaching Conference

I had the honor and privilege of organizing the First Annual NeuroCoaching Conference in California. It was a weekend full of sharing and exploring the new methods of NeuroCoaching. Attendees were able to gain wisdom and the ability to learn about business collaboration with the group. As coaches, I believe it is most important to

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Nutrition

Eat for Brain Health!

Learn tips to eat well for peak Cognitive Performance and overall well-being If you’ve been reading my blogs, you know how important eating well and nourishing your body is for your Cognitive Performance and overall well-being. To support you to be the best throughout the day, here are some of my favorite personal recommendations for

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Nutrition

The Importance of a Healthy Nutritional Intake

The Importance of a Healthy Nutritional Intake for Brain Health Taking care of your mind and body isn’t always easy. However, it is necessary to maximize our cognitive performance. And, it is essential that we pay attention to what we put into our body. Today, I want to focus on the importance of a healthy

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Sleep

Importance of Aerobic Exercise

The Importance of Aerobic Exercise When it comes to increasing our cognitive performance, there are many things we can do. The past few weeks, I’ve shared with you the importance of sleep. This week, I want to focus on the importance of Aerobic Exercise. Want the full e-book? I’d love to have you sign up with

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Sleep

Initiating Sleep Amidst Intrusive Thoughts and Anxieties

As we all know, a day spent recovering from a bad night of sleep is a day spent yawning and in a fog. In the last two weeks, I’ve covered the topic of sleep in depth. If you haven’t yet, you can find my blog on the importance of sleep here, and my blog on

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Sleep

12 Rituals to Better Sleep

Do you have difficulty sleeping? If you’re someone who struggles with falling asleep or staying asleep, you might be wondering how you’ll ever get some rest and how to sleep throughout the night. There are so many things that can prevent us from really getting a good night of sleep, and over the years I’ve

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Sleep

The Importance of Sleep

Last week we talked about tracking progress and making plans (which you can find here). For the next few weeks we’re going to focus on the importance of sleep, exercise, and a restorative diet for your overall wellness. These three components are all necessary to help speed up your ability and focus to execute your

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Plan Your Work, Work Your Plan

Today I want to share with you all the importance of developing a plan and tracking progress towards it. If you haven’t yet, make sure you download my e-book on Becoming Extraordinary. You can download it by entering your email here. You’ll find blog posts here to further unpack each section and give it to

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Motivation

Finding Your “Why”

Are you satisfied with your accomplishments? Think back on the goals you’ve completed thus far. Most of us tend to operate on moving from one short-term goal to the next. We focus on graduating, then finding a job, then perhaps marriage or another relationship, then family, then our career or starting a business that inspires

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Resilience

A Roadblock to Change: Past Traumas

When Old Habits and Painful Memories Get in the Way of Success ––– As you begin to replace habits that no longer serve your new goals, the old habits and memories formed out of past trauma and painful events may resist this change. This natural resistance can trigger fear reactions that have nothing to do

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Resilience

Turn off the Worry Switch!

Brain Science and Worry — The brain is the most complex and complicated organ in your body – with over 160 billion living organisms (neurons and glial cells). Your complex brain is motivated by pleasure. If a project, a job, a relationship or any other activity that promises a future reward, your brain is to

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Nutrition

How to Get Rid of Weight Gain Due to Stress

Are you over eating due to stress? –– Stress takes a toll on our body. It also can have a damaging effect on our brain health. Long-time exposure to it can even have deleterious effects on people[1] and can cause havoc in our daily life. As a result, many people have taken to different

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