Saying No When You Already Said Yes
Saying No Is Hard. On a short family vacation, I had some time to relax, think and get clear about my priorities. I realized I was spread too thin and had noticed some projects I had agreed to really didn’t fit into my top priorities. When I said “yes”, I was excited...
Turning A To Do List In To Your Success List
Overbooked, and overextended, it feels like there is more and more we “simply must get done”! When everything starts to feel equally important in your busy day, how do you decide the order of your to do list? Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of...
Magic Doesn’t Happen in the Middle
Like you, I have a lot of roles and relationships I care a lot about; family, work, mentor, community member- oh, don’t forget myself! All too often I am focusing on what I need to do next in all these domains. My anxiety levels go up and my self-confidence goes down....
Being Agile is Authentic
So much is changing in healthcare, and often the best choices are unclear. The change in medicine is not where my clients seem to struggle. Managing relationships, where they are called to constantly morph to adapt to new situations, is more challenging. Managing...
Prescription for Effective Change
Why do most change efforts fail or only partially achieve their full potential? The primary reason is not paying adequate attention to the reality that all change is an emotional event. Moving away from a current state (known) to a desired future state (unknown) can...
Making Decisions with Emotions
Emotions can give you an advantage in decision making if you make proper use of them. We're constantly faced with too much information to process consciously. If your brain comes across something it appraises as a "red flag," you'll be sent a message in the form of...
Emotions are Your Guide to Success
We start our exploration of EQ (emotional intelligence) with self-awareness. This ability sets the foundation to become proficient in the other three domains of EQ! Self-awareness is the ability to see yourself as others see you. It is the ability to make an accurate...
Women Have an EQ Advantage
Academic or cognitive intelligence alone is no longer enough to be successful in medicine. EQ (emotional intelligence) is required of all physicians and will lead you to healthy relationships and resilience with the trials of your life and career in medicine. A 2006...
Who is Successful and Why?
In her extensive research, psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth found that more than IQ or talent or any other factor, the #1 predictor of a person’s success is their unwavering commitment to a long-term goal... in other words, their grit. (Watch Angela's TED Talk and...
Your Emotional Intelligence Determines Your Team’s Success
Intelligent, dedicated physicians are frustrated with getting results to improve both patient care and financial outcomes. Nevertheless, physicians who feel better about themselves and their results are alike in one crucial way: They use their emotional intelligence....
Ensuring a Good Life
In a practice filled by daily activities with colleagues, staff, and patients, women physicians often feel isolated emotionally. “A 24/7 career gets in the way of making personal connections.” Women physicians succumb to a masquerade as strong and independent, even...
Change Never Starts Because It Never Stops
Transforming Healthcare: What It Takes To Be “Fresh” In 2016 Which would you rather drink: water from a river or a puddle? When seeking a natural source of water, we are taught to drink from moving water, as it remains fresh. Shifts of weather and influences of other...
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- Deborah Munhoz
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