Happy April!
A BIG welcome to all our new friends! And BIG hugs to my loyal community for your continuing support!
 Here are some pics of my most recent SimplyHealed Refresher Course. It is always so fun for me to re-connect with those who have previously taken a SimplyHealed training course.
This time I added in an activity with the horses, which is such a great way to learn about your own energy patterns!
 I love this photo where big Clyde is whispering in Tricia's ear.
It's been busy around here this first quarter of the year! I've had SO much fun interviewing some amazing experts for my free summit (more details & link below) if you haven't had a chance to sign up yet, I hope you'll join us. We're going into our 2nd week, and the replays for each call are available throughout the summit. You don't have to be in a Holistic Career to glean some great insights from these speakers!
How did your first quarter of 2016 go? There are lots of great tips for increasing your effectiveness in today's article below...
Much love,
 SimplyHealed™ Trainings
June 2016
SimplyHealed™ 6-month Certification Track
with 4-day LIVE Training
(Taught by Carolyn Cooper, Founder of SimplyHealed™)
St. George, Utah
Tuesday to Friday,
June 21 - 24, 2015
(Payment options available. Registration ends June 10, 2016.)
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SimplyHealed™ Refresher
(Taught by Carolyn Cooper, Founder of SimplyHealed™)
*For anyone who has attended the 4-day course.
Come join me and other like-minded practitioners in refreshing your skills and know-how (plus have some great fun and make awesome memories)!
July Refresher
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St. George, Utah - Thurs & Fri, July 21 & 22, 2016
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Wed. evening, July 20th - Welcome Dinner (details when you register!)
(Registration ends July 15th)
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I'm super excited to bring you my Holistic Career Summit that I created just for you! Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll learn from these insightful interviews:
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How they knew their healing path was right for them
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The obstacles they overcame to be successful, and how you can too
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What they love most about their career
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Advice for people just getting started in a holistic heath career
The Holistic Career Summit just started but you can still hear the ones you missed.
Register here: HOLISTIC CAREER SUMMIT
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Play to Your Strengths
 How often have you invested in a personal growth training to try to improve something you felt you were not good at? Perhaps it was writing, marketing, trusting your intuition or public speaking. For most of us, trying to improve our weak areas in operating a business or improving people skills comes with the territory. Whatever the area, we feel as if we are required to do battle with what we don’t do well.
As it turns out, the majority of people around the world feel this way. In their groundbreaking book Now, Discover Your Strengths, authors Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton say that across all ages and cultures, people are more concerned about their weaknesses than their strengths. We believe that our weaknesses matter more in holding us back than our strengths matter in advancing us.
That’s nonsense, say the authors—widely held nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. In their provocative theory, they suggest that the better strategy is to play to your strengths, building upon your core talents, and work around your weaknesses. You can work to add skills and knowledge to increase your performance in any area, but unless you are building upon one of your innate talents, your efforts won’t produce exceptional results—some results, yes, but not dramatic improvement.
“Unless you have the necessary talent, your improvements will be modest,” write Buckingham and Clifton. “You will be diverting most of your energy toward damage control and very little toward real development.”
The expression “damage control” is their term for trying to minimize your weaknesses—the areas where your lack of talent actually get in the way of your performance.
“Managing Around” a Weakness
Instead of trying to overcome your weaknesses by brute force—and at the expense of putting the same energy into growing your strengths—they offer five strategies for what they call “managing around” a weakness: (Note: most of these strategies are written in business terms, but for those of you not in a business-setting, they are still great, as they can easily be applied to all areas of life)
Get a little better at it. In some cases, your weakness is only moderately impeding your peak performance in other areas. If so, then maybe damage control is the right solution.
Develop a support system. This is the proverbial string tied around the finger to remind you of something. Whether it is time management systems for those with a talent for adaptability but not discipline, or a scheduled walk in the park for disciplined folks who neglect self-care, you can often blunt the effects of your weaknesses through such structured inputs.
Study your prospects. In business, if your skills tend toward the analytical and away from such talents as wooing clients or dealing directly with confrontation, then you probably ought not be spending a lot of time in sales. But when you do have to sell something—such as one of your ideas—approach the problem analytically. Rather than agonize over your lack of salesmanship, study your prospects, dig into what makes them tick and what ideas they’ve accepted in the past, and let your enthusiasm for your ideas do the talking.
Find a partner. This may be the best approach for small business people and “solo” practitioners. Go into partnership discussions with a clear-eyed understanding of the strengths you bring, and the strengths you need from your partner. Don’t be shy about your strengths—the whole point of this is to create a world in which you get to do what you are really good at. And be open-minded about what a partnership looks like. For some solo practitioners, an administrative assistant or a marketing consultant could be all the partnering you need.
Just (Don’t) Do It.The last option, say Buckingham and Clifton, is just don’t do the things you are weak at. In a corporate setting you might get away with this, particularly if you are a high-performer in the areas of your strengths. If you’re a small business owner and your organizational chart tends to have “me” written in most every box, not doing something may not seem like much of a choice. But keep it as a goal and continue to work toward the day when you can contribute to your business exclusively from the place of your highest strengths.
Author’s content used under license, © 2008 Claire Communications
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Carolyn
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