Posts by Diane Sieg
What are You Resisting?
The AONL Conference in Boston last month was great for connecting with like-minded colleagues and gaining inspiration from thought leaders like Adam Grant, author of Think Again, The Power of Knowing what You Don’t Know. He says our biggest bias is thinking we don’t have bias! Bias creates resistance to change our mindset, which is…
Keep Reading...The Choice of Well-Being
Well-Being is how you feel about yourself and what you do every day and Self-Leadership supports you to make the best choices to positively affect it. Self-Leadership, the foundation of the Well-Being Coaching Initiative empowers you to make better choices, by giving you the skills, structure and support to prioritize yourself. Read a couple of…
Keep Reading...Self-Leadership is Self-Love
What’s love got to do with Self-Leadership? As it turns out, everything. The nurses I coach in the Well-Being Coaching Initiative are high performers in their healthcare organizations. They hold themselves to very high standards and when they don’t meet their often unrealistic expectations, they can be harsh and critical of themselves. Common statements I…
Keep Reading...Thrive in ’25 with ONE Thing!
It’s the time when we are inundated with tips, tricks, and resolutions to make this year our best one yet. Our current “more is better” culture promotes, 50 Things I Wish I Started Doing Earlier in Life, 25 Simple Ways to Take Care of Yourself and 55 New Years Resolutions for 2025. These are all…
Keep Reading...The Joy of Simplicity
I received the following note after the Kick-Off for the Cone Health Well-Being Coaching Initiative with their Nursing Leadership, 20 Champions and 7 Coaches last month. This beautifully affirms the joy of simplicity that supports us to feel better about ourselves and what we do. I’m leaning into joy as I prepare dinner with my…
Keep Reading...Home for the Holidays? 3 Questions to Ask
Whether you love or dread this time of year, planning and prioritizing for the Holidays are important to help you stay Home, even if you travel. By Home, I mean feeling connected and grounded in yourself. This allows you to experience what is most meaningful with an authentic joy instead of powering through and getting…
Keep Reading...Can You Hear Me Now?
When my husband told me I needed my hearing tested because he was tired of repeating himself, I really thought the problem was his mumbling. But just in case, I decided to do it anyway. As the audiologist reviewed my results, she shared one critical piece of information with me. My significant hearing loss was…
Keep Reading...Finding Your Happy Place
How is your Summer going? When I ask this question, the answer I get alot is, ‘hot’, ‘busy’, or ‘too fast!’. While we can’t change the weather, we can choose how busy we feel, which affects how we feel about everything-including our summer. I could easily respond to this question the same, but I say what…
Keep Reading...How are you feeling today?
How are you feeling today?This question begins every Coaching Session because it supports you to slow down enough to articulate the two words that best reflect what is on your heart and mind. Knowing how you feel is one way to know yourself and critical for Self-Leadership, the foundation of The Well-Being Coaching Program. The…
Keep Reading...Compassion Begins with You
One of my favorite components of the Well-Being Coaching Program is celebrating the Champions and Coaches at Graduation after fulfilling the requirements for certification. It is a special day to recognize their hard work in developing Self-Leadership, reveal the results of their assessments, and hear their individual stories about what the program meant to them.…
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