Posts by Stephie Althouse
Walking the Fine Line Between Pushing Yourself And Driving Yourself Nuts
For sure I’m not alone in this: I often push myself to achieve things I believe in. I have many goals (some are big ones) that I believe are worth the effort and worth walking the fine line. I’m sure you do, too, or else you would not be reading these Brilliance Nuggets. Yet, sometimes…
Read MoreHow This Entrepreneur Transformed Her Business During the Pandemic
This inspiring story is about how thoughts become things. Maybe not overnight, but eventually. It is also an illustration of how a well-prepared mind can take advantage of external changes. How Ingrid Transformed Her Business During The Pandemic My dear friend Ingrid is an exceptional fitness trainer. She has a Master’s degree in exercise science.…
Read MoreMaximize Your Budget for Apps and SaaS Tools
These days there are so many amazing software like Apps and SaaS tools. We can use them to make our businesses easier and our lives richer and more fulfilled. Finding the Right Balance: Get It, Keep It, Ditch It? I’ve been thinking about what the right balance is here. How to get the right balance?There…
Read MoreHow To Get Good Where You Need More Success
A dear friend of mine recently shared a cool nugget with me. I want to pass it on to you on how to get good where you need more success. because it strikes me as very helpful! The nugget is this: Just about anyone is good in some area and far less good in another.…
Read MoreWhy Price Law Makes A Strong Case For Brilliance Extraction
Have you heard Price Law? Perhaps you have heard of the Pareto rule which states that 80% of results stem from 20% of efforts. Or, 80% of revenues come from 20% of your customers. And so on. I knew this. I have seen this principle at work firsthand when I analyzed the results of various…
Read MoreHow Do You Accidentally Stop Someone From Improving Their Behavior?
This situation happens a lot of times. We hold someone who upset or disappointed us in the past in the same bad light – for years! In doing so, we inadvertently help “freeze” the very behavior that upset us. In other words, our stagnant view of them can stop that person from improving their behavior.…
Read MoreTake a Chill Pill
Sometimes we need to calm ourselves down. I call that taking a “chill pill.” Chill pills come in many forms (I’m not talking about actual pills). I challenged myself to come up with 50 ideas. Of course, there are many more. Here are the 50 ideas for chill pills I thought of today (in alphabetical…
Read MoreI Am So Grateful To YOU!
Happy Thanksgiving to you! It is the day when we Americans focus on expressing our gratitude for our many blessings. Hopefully, we do this more than once per year! Thank YOU!!! I want to express, once again, my gratitude to YOU! You have been with me for 77 Brilliance Nuggets by now. Today is number…
Read MoreOlivia’s Big Fat Story
Human beings create meanings from what happens. We do that constantly! We are meaning creation machines! There are three steps for creating what I call a “big fat story”: The key take home of this Brilliance Nugget: The pain we feel from less than pleasant stories largely comes from our interpretations rather than from what…
Read MoreHelp Me Grow – Find Something Good In Me First
Do you look back on your life from time to time to see where you have been and how far you have come? I am sure you do. I do, too. I got to thinking about how some of the people around me help me grow and have fostered my growth even though they were…
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