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July 5, 2022 By Karen Leave a Comment

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“The most impactful training I ever experienced.”

“This has been the most impactful training I ever experienced. You develop powerful mental muscles to deal with challenges with much less stress and greater clarity, creativity, and resilience. Every sales professional would benefit greatly from this.” – Adam McGraw, Sales VP & GM, American Express

Mental Fitness is the X-Factor

If you’re not physically fit, you’d feel physical stress as you climb a steep hill.

If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration, or unhappiness, as you handle work and relationship challenges.

Recent events such as the novel coronavirus, disruption in financial markets, social unrest, and political changes have over-stretched you and your clients.

You need a new upgrade in your mental operating system to not just survive but thrive in these tumultuous times.

Learn the to boost your Mental Fitness (PQ)

PQ (your Positive Intelligence Quotient) is the measure of your Mental Fitness. It’s the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.

And the good news is: you can boost your PQ significantly with practice.

PQ is a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

Want to Learn More?

Contact Karen Hood-Caddy, karen@personalbest.org

Breakthrough Results

Within 6-8 weeks of mental fitness training you’d be able to see the results in MRI imaging:

Increased grey matter in the PQ Brain region, home to your Sage (positive mental muscles)
Decreased grey matter in the Survivor Brain region, home to your Saboteurs (negative mental muscles)

Improvements in these competencies lead to substantial results:

At MetLife, trained salespeople outsold the control group by 37%
Motorolla recorded improved productivity in 93% of trained employees
In a UK restaurant group, higher competency resulted in 34% greater profit growth
At Sanofi-Aventis Pharmeceutical, the average salesperson with improved competency sold $55,200 more per month
At L’Oreal, strength in these competencies resulted in $91,370 increase per sales person
At CIBC, strength in these competencies account for 32% of booked sales and 71% of pipeline sales

6 Week PQ Program

July 5, 2022 By Karen Leave a Comment

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Bliss from Breathing? Really?

May 10, 2022 By Karen Leave a Comment

BLISS FROM BREATHING? REALLY?

I was in the dentist’s chair. He raised the drill and looked at me.
“Relax”
Yeah, right. I guess they didn’t cover brain function in dental school. Otherwise, my dentist would have known that the part of the brain that determines relaxation is beneath language.
Luckily for me, I was aware of that and immediately began to do a breathing protocol. Within minutes, I was soon well on my way to relaxation.

GAMMA BREATHING:

Speaking of relaxation, is that what you experienced last week after you did the Box Breathing exercise? If you missed it, you can ACCESS IT HERE!

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to lead you in several breathing techniques so you can experience the power of breathing protocols to create specific mind/body states. AT WILL. This is a very empowering thing to be able to do. These techniques are quick and effective and won’ t cost you a dime.
Most people think about doing some breathwork when they want to calm themselves down, but different breathing techniques can energize the body too, and catalyze creativity and connection to one’s spirituality.
The one I’m going to lead you through today is called Gamma Breathing because it will stimulate Gamma brainwaves which are faster than all the other waves: alpha, delta, beta, and theta and are known to boost creative thinking, efficient brain processing and feelings of well-being. It’s one of my favourites.

DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE?

I’ll take you though it shortly, but just before I do, I want to mention that I currently have spaces in my calendar if you’re wanting to make some changes in your world.

If there are things you are doing that drain you or get in the way of your happiness, (health issues, a relationship that needs revamping, reactivity or negative self-talk, low self-confidence, etc) and you’d like to learn some powerful tools to create what you know will result in a more soul-satisfying life, contact me for a pressure-free chat about how coaching might help. Send me an email: karen@personalbest.org and we’ll set up a time to chat.

But meanwhile, if you want to change this very moment,

LISTEN TO THE GAMMA BREATHING AUDIO HERE

‘KARENS’ AND WHITE PRIVILEGE

September 14, 2021 By Karen Leave a Comment

‘Karens’ and White Privilege:

‘Karens’ have been called entitled. Histrionic. Self-absorbed. Even racist.

According to the Urban Dictionary, a ‘Karen’ is a middle-aged women, typically blond, who makes a big fuss over minor inconveniences. An example is the woman who sued a city council after they installed a STOP sign that blocked the sun from her window for 10 minutes a day. (The sign was put in after a child was hit by a speeding driver and killed.)

When Your Name Is An Insult:

This type of person is nasty, but lots of people are nasty who aren’t named ‘Karen’. But ‘Karens’ are getting bashed these days all over the Internet. I should know. I am named Karen. I like to think I’m an ‘evolved Karen’ and that the judgements about my name don’t apply to me, but, nonetheless, they sting. You’ll understand one day if your own name becomes a derogatory word. The Lindas, Becky’s and Chads of the world have already been through it.

Why are ‘Karens’ getting hit so hard? What is this anti-Karen movement all about? When I heard someone call Donald Trump referred to as a “Karen in Chief”, I knew I had to do some digging. As I explored, it seemed to me that our culture is always trying to self-regulate and this is a good thing. Right now, there is a great deal of rejigging, much needed rejigging, around the issue of white privilege. Most white people are swimming in privilege and don’t even know it, so the ‘Karen’ bashing is a way our culture is trying to get us to SEE privilege more clearly and it’s easier to see in the behaviours of some white, blond, middle-aged women. And my goodness, we so need to see it!

Call The Manager:

For example, a friend of mine said she didn’t realize she was being entitled when she heard herself telling her husband to “call the manager” when he was displeased in a store one day. This friend isn’t named ‘Karen’ but realized she was acting like the ‘Karen’ so many people are talking about. And she changed her behaviour and retracted her request. Being ‘unKaren like’ can be a good thing.

But there are also good things about actually being a ‘Karen’. First of all, many of them are highly sensitive. They feel things acutely and can often sniff what they consider ‘injustice’ a mile away. Okay, maybe two miles away. And once their snouts have gotten hold of what they think is injustice, they are willing to shout about it long and hard. And they have no scruples about taking action when others won’t. It’s almost as if they enjoy rocking the boat.

Saying The Unsayable:

Our culture needs more people speaking up right now. We have been quiet for WAY too long about the atrocities being done to the planet and its divergent peoples. But we need to do it in a way that can be heard. (This is my superpower, helping people “say the unsayable” in ways that will be respected and heard.)

So, this is a call to all ‘Karens’. Instead of brandishing white privilege, speak out against it. Let’s be the blonds at the front of the protest march, the pushy broads who stand up to the cops when they are acting in racist ways.

The world needs us ‘evolved Karens’ now more than ever.

How Often Do You Get Deadfaced?”

September 1, 2021 By Karen Leave a Comment

Getting ‘Deadfaced’:

How often do you get ‘dead-faced’? You know, that shut-down look where the other person has deadened eyes and a locked jaw?

Often, this happens when we’re correcting someone, or telling them something they don’t want to hear–like the details of what they did wrong. Or, the details of our feelings about what they did wrong. No one’s face is going to look very lively in situations like that.

Here’s a way to avoid ‘dead face’.

It’s simple really.

The first step is not to spend a moment going over what you didn’t like: what the other person said/did/didn’t do –what’s the point of that? It’s all happened by now and is past tense and bringing it into the present just encourages the other person to feel bad or defensive and do the ‘dead face’ thing.

Just skip all that and leap into the second step: ask for what you want.

Here’s an example. Let’s say John has just spoken to you in a tone you don’t like.

You want to tell him not to speak to you like this. You want him to know how it MAKES you feel. Etc. etc. But don’t go there. It will not be helpful.

Here’s What To Do Instead:

Instead, just say, “I’d love it if you talked to me in a softer, kinder tone. That would make it easier for me to listen to you. Do you think you could do that?”

Full stop.

This does several things:

It creates a clear direction for the conversation.

It outlines a reward for the other person: in this case, it will enhance the possibility of being heard.

Implicitly, it shows you are in control of your feelings and will take care of them yourself.

It involves a clear, but positive invitation to act differently.

It sidesteps any blame or what I call ‘wrong-making’

Avoid Blaming At All Costs:

This last point is crucial because everyone and I mean everyone, has shame about being blamed. Our culture has done a dismal job of helping people take responsibility for their own feelings. It’s very difficult to create healthy conversations in such an environment. But when you learn to take responsibility and lead conversations where you want them to go, everything eases up. You start to feel in control.

In my new course, Inner Authority, Saying the Unsayable, I’ll be teaching dozens of language skills so you can stay calm and clear in even the most difficult conversations and get yourself heard.

Want to know more?

Contact me:

Contact me and we can have a chat. karen@personalbest.org The Inner Authority, Saying the Unsayable course will start on Saturday, September 25^th at 10:30 am EST and run for 6 weeks. It will be a very small group so there will be lots of time to practice and get proficient in being able to speak easily and often about things that are important to you, even to people you find intimidating.

Karen