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"Each day is like a blank canvas with all the colors of the rainbow at your fingertips."
~ Frances Queen
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Her inspiration and motivation is to help others to maximize their performance and get results. She excels at creating a thriving, healthy and balanced work environment by developing leadership, strengthening communication skills, team revitalization and image enhancement.
- Her encouragement, creativity and dynamic spirit are contagious.
- A natural communicator and trainer with 20+ years' experience in the industry.
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Judy Kay Mausolf
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"The best day of your life is the one which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; an you alone are responsible for the quality of it."
~ Dan Zadra
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February 2010
February
Finishing With No Regrets!
Dedicated to my Dad!
You've said it before..."This year will be different." But WILL it? Make 2010 YOUR year to change. Learn more, do more, become more! We are excited to offer this newsletter to help inspire and empower our readers to maxmize their performance and shine! |
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Monthly Podcast
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First Impressions
I am dedicating this month's newsletter to a very impressive man, my dad, Clem Miller. After 60 years of marriage and 85 years of living life to the fullest, he has gone home to be with mom in heaven. He passed on November 19th, 2009.
He was a dad, brother, son, husband, grandpa, family man, farmer, cowboy, fisher, hunter, card shark, adventurer, craftsman, inventor, handy man, joke player, historian, nature lover, dreamer, believer and liver of life.
Dad was a man who loved adventures and lived his dreams. Truly, an outdoorsman, he loved to journey to remote locations like Alaska and British Columbia to fish for the big ones, even at the spry age of 80. His hunting adventures included everything from birds to elk. He loved nature, and held a fascination with animals and plants to the very end.
When he wasn't fishing or hunting you could find him hard at work in his woodworking shop with Old Yeller the cat. This was a hobby he took up in his late 50's and became very gifted at his craft.
Many a conversation started with, "hey dad, do you think you could build.....!" He would smile, and pull out an old, weathered, spiral notebook he always kept in his shirt pocket and begin to sketch and figure away. Within a minute or two there would be a drawing with the exact dimensions and materials needed.
Christmas was always a surprise, well that is at least for the first gift being opened. If one of us kids asked him to build something, you could count on all seven of us receiving the same gift. Dad figured, once he created the pattern, he could hammer out seven almost as quickly as he could one. He believed in being effective and efficient even when doing a hobby.
He loved the holidays because that meant spending time with his family. I can't imagine how many games of Gin and Pinnacle have been played, most ending with him as the winner.
He was an excellent manager of his farm and had only one way to do things. The right way, this of course meant his way. Not opinionated at all. LOL
He was the strongest man I knew. He had arms the size of tree trunks and hands that could cradle and make you feel safe.
A great tree has fallen and left an empty place against the sky.
I miss our daily conversations, sometimes heated discussions, :) yet always enlightening, over current news, health care, work, politics, people, and just life in general.
In one of our last conversations, we talked about his life. He shared with me how he felt about his life. "I lived my life how I wanted to; doing all the things I wanted to do. Your mom and I did the best we could with what we had. It wasn't always perfect, we had some hard times, we had some good times, in the end we did okay. I have no regrets. I lived a good life. A man can't ask for anything more than that."
As sad as it has been for our family to say goodbye to both our parents this year, we are happy for them to be together again, home in heaven.
Happy trails mom and dad. We love you.
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Personal Inspiration
Dad fishing with grandson John Davis
If you and I were having a conversation about how you lived your life; what would be your answer. Would you be able to say no regrets and mean it?
When I asked dad how to live a life with no regrets. He answered. "You figure out what's important to you and make time for it. You do the best you can with what you know. You continue to learn and grow to make sure you know. You make it your day. At the end of the day, if you can look back on the day and know you gave it your best shot....well, that's pretty much as good as it gets."
So I ask, what is important to you? Do you make time for what is important...or are you waiting until you finish this or that?
Do you make it your day...or do you just respond to what the day brings your way?
Do you challenge yourself to continue to learn and grow and adapt...or do you let fear and worry close the door to change?
Do you give your all, 100%, in everything you do, everyday...or do you coast and slide by with what will pass.
"You've got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you."
- Herb Gardner
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Professional Inspiration
So, how do we get rid of the should haves, would haves, could haves and finish with no regrets?
Step one; establish what is important to you. Take a notebook or flip chart and just start writing down everything that comes to your mind that you feel is important to you. Don't stress, you don't have to complete this list all at one time. Keep your list in sight and keep adding to it until no new ideas come to mind. Next, prioritize your list. Choose the top 5 or 10 things on your list. These are your top priorities and go to the front of your schedule.
Step two; decide what you want to accomplish, how you want to do it, and how you want to feel today. In other words, don't just wait for the day to unfold and react. Decide what, when, where, why and how to make it your day. Then jump in with both feet, even if you are not quite sure of all the how to answers.
Step three; invest the time to learn the most you can about whatever it is you do. Become an expert in your field. (My dad always joked he was a man outstanding in his field) :) Reach out for help if you think you could do it better with a little more knowledge or how to. Don't settle on just being good, be great! Even if it means reading more, taking hands on courses (OMG it may show what you don't know...duh...that's why you are taking the course), or working one-on-one with a mentor.
Step four; give 100% of yourself to the task or person at hand. Forget the multi-tasking, that's just another way of saying doing many things mediocre and without joy.
At the end of your journey, if you could say you made time for what was important, you made each day your day, feeling how you wanted to feel, doing what you wanted to do, and you gave it 100%; would you have any regrets?
Well done Mom and Dad, well done!
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Practicing Solutions
Situation:
We have great team meetings where we discuss new ideals. We decide as a team who, how, when, where, and what we are going to do and implement the new idea, system or protocol. Yet, things don't seem to happen, or at least not consistently for very long.
Solution:
Steps to resolution:
Thinking and brainstorming new ideas is the exciting and fun part. Actually following through and doing the work is the hard part. It's called accountability and separates the achievers from the dreamers. Your daily huddles are a perfect venue to create accountability. They allow your team to talk about on a daily basis what is working and what is not, based on what was implemented at the team meeting. What are the successes and what are the growth opportunities (in other words what didn't happen when and why not) for the day. Resolve it as a team, by discussing how you can help each other succeed. When you monitor the results at your daily huddles you can create accountability. Remember to be kind to one another, we are human and it is our nature to want to slip back into our comfortable old habits. That is unless we are consistently held accountable by others and ourselves to the new expectations. Happy huddles!
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March, April & May Highlights
I am thrilled to be presenting at the following meetings!
March, the Minnesota Social Service Association (MSSA) "Communication Solutions: Conflict, Gossip & Tension Resolutions", 117th Annual Training Conference & Expo, Synergy: Revitalizing for Future Generations
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 1:15pm-2:45pm
Hilton, Minneapolis Hotel.
Please visit their website at www.mssaconference.org to learn more click on Read More
In April, the Minnesota Dental Association's Star of the North Meeting, the premier state dental meeting of the Upper Midwest. In May, the Inland Northwest Dental Conference, the premier district dental conference of Washington.
Come connect, explore and discover how to "Rise Above the Rainy Days; Recession-Proof Remedies".
In these extremely challenging economic times, many businesses are barely surviving. Yet, some are not only surviving they are thriving! What is the difference between those that thrive and others that barely survive?
Learn the five V.I.T.A.L. fundamentals to plan, practice and perform to Rise Above the Rainy Days.
Star of the North
Friday, April 23, 2010 from 2:00pm-5:00pm. Please click on Learn More to visit their website.
Inland Northwest Dental Conference
Thursday, May 6, 2010. 2 sessions, from 8:30-12:00 and 1:00pm-4:00pm. Please e-mail spodistdent@aol.com to register.
Sign up now!
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Enhancing your personal and professional image can inspire connections and build relationships to achieve your dreams. Will 2010 be just another 12 months in your life, or will it be the year that turns your life around? Let us help you maximize your performance and not just make it a GREAT year but an EXTRAORDINARY year! In fact, the best year of your life.
Contact Judy Kay today if you are ready to start the momentum to your best year ever!
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