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The Mindful Business Advantage Newsletter

Helping business founders/owners/leaders utilize East & West psychology for balanced success.

Expanding Your Mind With Positive Emotions

VIEW IN BROWSER Bill Belanger Expanding Your Mind With Positive Emotions In this Email What’s the point of positive emotions? Applying This as Entrepreneurs Building Emotional Mastery Hello Reader, What’s the point of positive emotions? Barbara Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build Theory explains how positive emotions expand our thinking and enhance our ability to build lasting psychological, social, and intellectual resources. Unlike negative emotions, which narrow our focus in response to...
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Anxious Leadership: When You Can't Let Go of Control

VIEW IN BROWSER Bill Belanger Anxious Leadership: When You Can't Let Go of Control In this Email The Fear-Setting Exercise Mindful Awareness of Control Patterns Gradual Delegation Experiments Hello Reader, Many professionals struggle with a leadership pattern characterized by control, micromanagement, and difficulty delegating. If you find yourself checking in constantly on projects you've assigned to others or feeling uncomfortable unless you're involved in every decision, you may be...
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The Stages of Change

VIEW IN BROWSER Bill Belanger The Stages of Change Hello Reader, Motivational interviewing (MI) recognizes that individuals go through different stages of change when considering behavior modification. In any coaching, therapy, or mentoring relationship, understanding an individual's stage of change is crucial in applying the correct intervention. This is also important to understand as a leader or business owner. Being able to make a rough assessment of where somebody on your team is when...

Helping business founders/owners/leaders utilize East & West psychology for balanced success.