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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Soaring With Your Strengths: Sometimes Even Eagles Need a Push!

I’ve read many versions of the fable about an eagle who thought he was a chicken and have been unable to find the original source. Dr. Eldon Taylor, author of “Choices and Illusions,” Has an inspiring U-Tube video about the fable that can serve as a “pick-me-up” if you’re having a day when you don’t feel capable of soaring. TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT . . . 1. Are there any ways that you see yourself as a barnyard chicken and are not aware of your potential to soar like an eagle? What would soaring look like for you?

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Secure In Insecure Times

How well are you managing change and disruption caused by COVID-19? Listen to my interview on “The Evolutionary Power of Change and Disruption” www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv/me20201006ep138emritaburgettmartell with Gwilda Wiyaka, host of Mission Evolution Radio, and learn what you can do to feel secure in insecure times.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Second Chances by Rita Burgett-Martell

“It’s never too late to become what you might have been.” George Eliotr When Joe’s manager began the conversation by saying: “I want you to know how grateful we are for your twenty years of valuable service to our company,” Joe expected to hear that he was being promoted, or at least receiving a pay increase. After all, his performance reviews had never been less than stellar.it came as a shock when what he heard next was: “our company is moving in a new direction and unfortunately your skills aren’t the skills we need. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.”

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Soaring With Your Strengths: Sometimes Even Eagles Need a Push! by Rita Burgett-Martell

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller I’ve read many versions of the fable about an eagle who thought he was a chicken and have been unable to find the original source. Dr. Eldon Taylor, author of “Choices and Illusions,” Has an inspiring U-Tube video about the fable that can serve as a “pick-me-up” if you’re having a day when you don’t feel capable of soaring.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Webinar: How to Improve your Self-Image and Increase Your Self-Confidence

Imagine how your life could be different if you had more confidence. What changes would you make in your career, relationships, and lifestyle? Low self-confidence creates a barrier between you and the life you want. You can break through this barrier. Invest 45 minutes and $35 to attend this webinar led by Rita Burgett-Martell and learn what you can do to develop a more positive view of you! It’s never too late to become the person you were meant to be. You will learn: 1. Beliefs and behaviors that become barriers to feeling confident.r

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Mastering The Art Of Doing Nothing

My vision of what life would be like on a four-month cruise included not making a bed, doing laundry, or cooking; visiting amazing places around the world; relaxing on my balcony with coffee delivered by room service every morning and a glass of wine at sunset; and, sitting by the pool with a book in one hand and a Pina Colada in the other on the days we were at sea. It would be the first time in my life when I could completely relax and enjoy doing nothing after 35+ years of a pretty demanding career with only an occasional one-or two-week vacation.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

A Manager’s Guide to Managing Change (Step I): Checklist For Success

Is your project on the path to success or to become one of the many that fail to achieve the expected benefits? The lessons I’ve learned, from the past twenty-five years of working with senior leadership of Fortune 500 corporations to prepare for enterprise-wide change, can help you avoid mistakes that can prevent your change initiative from succeeding. There are six critical requirements for success: Shared Visionr Understanding of the Full Impact to the Organizationr Effective Stakeholder Engagementr Clear, Consistent and Continual Communicationr Adequate Preparationr

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Secure In Insecure Times by Rita Burgett-Martell

It’s 4 a.m. and you are wide awake, worrying about all the bad things that could happen, feeling anxious, and unable to sleep. The fear you are feeling is self-imposed instead of a reaction to what is actually happening because at the present moment you are safe. There is nothing to be afraid of other than the imaginary reality that you have allowed the power of fear to create in your mind.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Riding the Roller Coaster of Unexpected Change — Part I

The Transitions Curve Model is commonly used to illustrate the different phases –and emotions- we experience as we move through the transition process that is triggered by change. Change is an event. Transition is the process of adapting to what is different because of the change. Transition is triggered by an ending. Something we once had we no longer do. A way of living, thinking, and/or feeling has changed – and changed us in the process.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Changing The Way You Think About Uncertainty

ertaintyr Changing the Way You Think About Uncertaintyr The Key to Mastering Uncertainty “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” ~ John Allen Paulos It’s 4 a.m. and you’re wide awake, thinking about all the bad things that might happen in your career, relationships, and life in general.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Be A Leader People Want To Follow by Rita Burgett-Martell

“The days of Command and Control are over. Today’s leaders must Trust and Inspire their employees to be trusted as leaders.” I was a shy sixteen years old, afraid of my own shadow, the summer I worked as a Nurse’s Aide at our local hospital. The Director of Nursing was a strong loud woman that I found very intimidating. Whenever I saw her coming I would turn and go the other direction, or look for someplace to hide. One day she stopped beside me, put her arm around my shoulder, and said: “I want you to look at my shoes.”

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Does Absence Make The Heart Grow Fonder?

The moment I considered the possibility of going on a four-month cruise around the world I knew my husband would not be going. If I went, I would be going without him. The timing was good for me but taking four months off work wouldn’t work for him and being confined to a cruise ship with 1300 strangers for that long just isn’t his thing. Should I not go because it meant being apart for four months; and, if I did go, how would being apart for that long affect our relationship?

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Second Chances by Rita Burgett-Martell

“It’s never too late to become what you might have been.” George Eliotr When Joe’s manager began the conversation by saying: “I want you to know how grateful we are for your twenty years of valuable service to our company,” Joe expected to hear that he was being promoted, or at least receiving a pay increase. After all, his performance reviews had never been less than stellar.it came as a shock when what he heard next was: “our company is moving in a new direction and unfortunately your skills aren’t the skills we need. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.”

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

It’s Never Too Late To Find Your Mate

I’m cruising around the world with 1300 people I don’t know. For the next four months, I’m living in a community of neighbors of all ages from multiple countries who have multiple reasons for making this journey. For some, it’s their first world cruise, and for others, it’s their 7th or 8th. The oldest passenger is 98 and on his 28th world cruise.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How to Feel Secure in Insecure Times - Positively Positive

It’s 4 a.m. and you are wide awake, worrying about all the bad things that could happen, feeling anxious, and unable to sleep. The fear you are feeling is self-imposed instead of a reaction to what is actually happening because at the present moment you are safe. There is nothing to be afraid of other than the imaginary reality that you have allowed the power of fear to create in your mind.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

A Manager’s Guide to Managing Change (Step II): Assessing Impact

Is your project on the path to success or to becoming one of the many that fail to achieve the expected benefits? Step One, Shared Vision, was the focus of my previous article. We will now shift our focus to Step Two: Understanding the Full Change Impact to the Organization Have you identified the degree and type of changes required to realize your project’s benefits? If not, how can people be prepared when you haven’t determined what type of change to prepare them for?

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Riding the Roller Coaster of Unexpected Change — Part II

From the moment you realize change is inevitable to the moment you begin to feel comfortable again, you experience an in-between and uncomfortable time of transition. For a time, you’re carrying both the weight of the past and uncertainty about the future. It may feel like a huge stone tied to your back, making it difficult to move forward. There will be moments when you feel exhilarated about new opportunities change creates. And then, there will be moments filled with fear about what lies before you that makes it difficult to keep going.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

A Manager’s Guide to Managing Change (Step III): Checklist for Success

Effectively Engaging Stakeholders The third step on the path to success is to effectively engage stakeholders. A stakeholder is anyone who will experience change because of your project or who has the ability to influence the outcome of your project. The keywords here are impact and influence.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

The Impact Of Culture On Your Life

If you never travel beyond your zip code, you may never question your beliefs or realize how the culture you grew up in, or currently live in, affects the choices you see for yourself, decisions you make and the life you live. Culture consists of a set of beliefs that form the foundation and create the rules and “shoulds” that govern our life. We seldom question if these beliefs are true and will often impose our beliefs on others, judge them wrong for not accepting them as truth, and/or only surround ourselves with people who share our beliefs to reinforce that we are “right.”

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Travel Around The World With Rita

Why am I doing this? Isn’t this financially irresponsible? After all, I’m not getting any younger.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Secure In Insecure Times by Rita Burgett-Martell

In 2020 we are faced with very real threats to our health and financial security that many of us have never experienced and never thought we would. This has been a rapid unexpected and unwanted change that we must deal with. Fear prevents us from thinking clearly about what we can do to minimize the threat to our wellbeing. It renders us helpless and blinds our vision to what we can do to stay healthy and keep the money flowing to keep a roof over our head and food on the table.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Changing The Way, You Think About You: How to Rethink Your Way To A Happier Life by Rita Burgett-Martell

Here’s a quiz to help you identify behaviors that may be undermining your self-confidence and preventing you from living the life you desire. Respond with a simple “yes” or “no” answer to each statement and then tally up the number of yeses. 1. I often compare myself to others. 2. I make decisions based on what others tell me I should do. 3. I would have to honestly say I sometimes take my family for granted. 4. I find myself thinking more about the past or worrying more about the future instead of focusing on what’s happening in the present moment.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Getting Older Is Getting Younger

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, but it seems to me that what was once considered old age is no longer old. It’s not just that people are looking younger than past generations have at their age, from what I’m observing, they’re also acting younger. A motivating factor for going on this cruise was a belief that I’ve moved into a decade of life that is classified as “old,” and should go while I’m still physically able to enjoy traveling. But meeting so many people who are several years older tha I am is rapidly changing my belief about age-imposed limits.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

It’s Never Too Late To Find Your Mate

Everyone has a story that I’m curious to hear, learn from, and share with you. Last week I met a woman named Maggie and am sharing her story with you to illustrate that if you’re open to exploring new places, meeting new people, and embracing new ideas, you can create a new life after the one you never wanted to end has ended.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Mastering The Art Of Doing Nothing

My vision of what life would be like on a four-month cruise included not making a bed, doing laundry, or cooking; visiting amazing places around the world; relaxing on my balcony with coffee delivered by room service every morning and a glass of wine at sunset; and, sitting by the pool with a book in one hand and a Pina Colada in the other on the days we were at sea. It would be the first time in my life when I could completely relax and enjoy doing nothing after 35+ years of a pretty demanding career with only an occasional one-or two-week vacation.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Feel Secure In Insecure Times : How well are you managing change and disruption caused by COVID-19?

How well are you managing change and disruption caused by COVID-19? It’s 4 a.m. and you are wide awake, worrying about all the bad things that could happen, feeling anxious, and unable to sleep. The fear you are feeling is self-imposed instead of a reaction to what is actually happening because at the present moment you are safe. There is nothing to be afraid of other than the imaginary reality that you have allowed the power of fear to create in your mind.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Life Lessons From The End Of The World

Getting away from it all sounds appealing when you’re rushing through life checking items off your “To Do” list and thinking you could have done each one of them a little better. How would it feel to be in a place that is calm, serene, silent, disconnected from the outside world, and where no one knows you well enough to ask anything of you? I had the opportunity to find out last week as my cruise ship spent 7 days at sea betwee Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, Argentina – also known as the city at the end of the world.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Everything I Know About Change I Learned From My Cats

A few years ago, I started a new project that required me to live on the East Coast. My two cats, Jasmine and Ginger, and I flew cross-country to our temporary home. They were eager to escape from their cat carriers after our long flight. Following the advice of my vet, to introduce them to their new home one room at a time, I confined them initially to the bathroom and bedroom.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Changing The Way, You Think About You: How to Rethink Your Way To A Happier Life by Rita Burgett-Martell

Here’s a quiz to help you identify behaviors that may be undermining your self-confidence and preventing you from living the life you desire. Respond with a simple “yes” or “no” answer to each statement and then tally up the number of yeses. 1. I often compare myself to others. 2. I make decisions based on what others tell me I should do. 3. I would have to honestly say I sometimes take my family for granted. 4. I find myself thinking more about the past or worrying more about the future instead of focusing on what’s happening in the present moment.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

How To Be A Leader People Want To Follow by Rita Burgett-Martell

“The days of Command and Control are over. Today’s leaders must Trust and Inspire their employees to be trusted as leaders.” Tweet I was a shy sixteen years old, afraid of my own shadow, the summer I worked as a Nurse’s Aide at our local hospital. The Director of Nursing was a strong loud woman that I found very intimidating. Whenever I saw her coming I would turn and go the other direction, or look for someplace to hide. One day she stopped beside me, put her arm around my shoulder, and said: “I want you to look at my shoes.”

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

Around The World With Rita

My philosophy for many years had been to make decisions based on faith and not on fear. I begin to question if that was how I was living my life. Why am I doing this? Isn’t this financially irresponsible? After all, I’m not getting any younger.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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By Rita MartellRecently published1 topic

MEMO TO 2020: YOU’RE OVER and I’M STILL HERE!

2020 was a year that forced us to make changes we didn’t want and wouldn’t have chosen to make, and we made them anyway. It was a year filled with disappointments, loneliness, disruption, and heartache for many, and we survived. It shined a spotlight on areas of our life that weren’t working and needed changing and those that were stronger than we realized. It threatened our main sources of security, our health, employment, and relationships. It amplified our fears, tested our faith, and showed us we were more resilient than we ever thought we could be. It was a year we will never forget.

Primary topic: Career Coach and Career Coaching

Career Coach and Career Coaching

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