When Integrity Means More Than the Task at Hand
08/12/16 • 19 min
Today Diane asks an important question about when you should step up to a challenge and when you should hold your values at a higher importance than the task in front of you. To exemplify this decision Diane talks about an experience from her past where she was asked to take on a job last minute and help a client effect change in 5 days!
Diane explores the thought process of realizing that completing a job badly would actually compromise her integrity and how she made the decision to walk away with her credibility intact. This was despite being offered even more money to stay on the job. Sometimes you have to value yourself and your mental health more than any money.
What you will learn:
- Diane teaches change.
- She was given a job where she had to turn a company around in 1 week.
- There was no foundational training or consultant support.
- Diane felt bad about leaving and stated her case to the consulting company.
- She was offered more money to stay.
- You know you’re not living your values if something doesn’t feel right.
- You need to be honest with yourself about what you can and can’t do.
- All the stress left Diane’s body when driving home – this was a sign she was doing the right thing.
Quotes:
- I was out of integrity with myself
- You have all the tools inside of you
- We all want to be in alignment with life and what we have to do
Contact Diane
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Website:
http://www.dianerandallconsults.com
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Today Diane asks an important question about when you should step up to a challenge and when you should hold your values at a higher importance than the task in front of you. To exemplify this decision Diane talks about an experience from her past where she was asked to take on a job last minute and help a client effect change in 5 days!
Diane explores the thought process of realizing that completing a job badly would actually compromise her integrity and how she made the decision to walk away with her credibility intact. This was despite being offered even more money to stay on the job. Sometimes you have to value yourself and your mental health more than any money.
What you will learn:
- Diane teaches change.
- She was given a job where she had to turn a company around in 1 week.
- There was no foundational training or consultant support.
- Diane felt bad about leaving and stated her case to the consulting company.
- She was offered more money to stay.
- You know you’re not living your values if something doesn’t feel right.
- You need to be honest with yourself about what you can and can’t do.
- All the stress left Diane’s body when driving home – this was a sign she was doing the right thing.
Quotes:
- I was out of integrity with myself
- You have all the tools inside of you
- We all want to be in alignment with life and what we have to do
Contact Diane
Email Diane:
Website:
http://www.dianerandallconsults.com
Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voice mail or comment:
Previous Episode
Ep3-Conversations With Cheryl Morgan Young, How to Quiet the Mind, Exercise and Find Moderation With Your Workout Schedule
In this final episode of the Cheryl Morgan Young interview series Diane Randall and Cheryl talk about how to quiet the mind and clear out the day’s worries. Cheryl has a rather unusual method to calm her mind and a lovely story to explain why it works.
As well as quieting the mind Cheryl and Diane discuss how to exercise the body and how to find moderation with your workout schedule. It can be tricky to find the time to fit exercise into a busy schedule so Cheryl has some advice about how she makes the time. Exercise is a necessary part of a lifestyle to maintain a healthy mind however both Diane and Cheryl have experienced what happened when you take this too far and they have some advice for finding a balance.
Cheryl and Diane end with some wonderful advice about learning who you are which will help in relationships, work and for your own mental health.
What you will learn:
- Cheryl quiets her mind using Farmville
- Cheryl’s first pet was a fish – but you can’t stroke a fish!
- You have to look after yourself but too much time in the gym can end you up in hospital.
- Do lots of walking to keep your body going.
- Learn to define yourself, by yourself.
- Don’t define who you are by who you’re attached to.
- You often don’t learn to love yourself until you’ve had some bad experiences.
Quotes:
You name it, you go after it and it becomes yours
I’ve always been an optimistic person, because often that’s all I had
Contact Cheryl:
http://www.letstalkwithcheryl.com
Contact Diane
Email Diane:
Website:
http://www.dianerandallconsults.com
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The Keys to Expressive Writing & Increased Life Balance With Lynda Monk
Joining Diane Randall from Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada is her guest Registered Social Worker, Certified Professional Coach, and Author, Lynda Monk of Creative Wellness Works. Lynda shares with the listeners how expressive writing and journaling practices help reduce stress and bring balance into the lives anyone who craves more tranquility in their day.
Research studies reveal that writing helps people to reduce blood pressure, deal with chronic pain, improve immune function, and all types of tangible health benefits are happening simply from the profound practice of writing around our feelings and surroundings. Diane inquires about what someone needs to write about or how to get started. Lynda shares some ways to break into this type of therapeutic writing that is easy and painless. Lynda offers a free download gift for listeners to help them get started.
Results from reflective writing practices can be achieved after as little as 5 minutes of writing. She removes all excuses of not having time to write and busts the myths that meaningful writing takes large commitments of time. Picking up a pen, or sitting before a blank commuter screen, to write with one of Lynda’s writing prompt starter sentences means you are moments away from tapping into creativity, breaking through burnout blockages, or discovering things about yourself that once seemed far away.
What you will learn:
- The writing wellness connection.
- How writing can help you check in with yourself.
- How writing can help you access great clarity, calm, and perspective.
- How writing can tap into creativity you may not have realized.
- How writing can move you past burnout.
- How journaling both through challenges as well as triumphs will lead to more life balance.
- What to do with the content you’ve written after you’ve put the pen down.
- BONUS: A resource for starting a group journaling circle with your writing friends.
Quotes:
“We need each other, inspiration, and balance to have a better connection.” –Lynda Monk
“You’re writing from within. You’re not worrying about grammar or syntax. You’re writing for yourself.” –Lynda Monk
“Writing invites us to pause. To listen. To be present. To reflect.” –Lynda Monk
“Writing has holistic benefits.” –Lynda Monk
“The role of curiosity in writing becomes a tool in achieving balance in your life.” –Lynda Monk
Contact Lynda Monk
Website: http://www.creativewellnessworks.com
Her Book
Writing Alone Together: Journaling in a Circle of Women for Creativity, Compassion and Connection by Wendy Judith Cutler, MA; Lynda Monk, MSW; and Ahava Shira, PhD ©2014
Free Gift
Writing for Wellness Kit which helps you get started in writing. The kit includes:
- 10 healing benefits of expressive writing
- 20 journaling writing prompts
- 1 guided Celebrate You mini journaling retreat
Sign up is on her website at http://www.creativewellnessworks.com
Contact Diane
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Website:
http://www.dianerandallconsults.com
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