Blog – Starla West | Coach, Consultant & Speaker

Free Resource: Exercise & Worksheets For Strengthening Your Resilience

This week, I’m hosting a 2½-day retreat for my Executive Women’s Peer Advisory Forum where members will…reflect on the lessons they should be learning from the events of 2020,recalibrate their 2020 personal & professional goals, andtighten up their strategies & tactical plans for achieving them.I have lots of fun activities and reflective exercises planned – one …

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Connectedness: An Essential Component of Building & Sustaining Strong Team Relationships

Last week, I reached out to a client to find out how she and her team were navigating this pandemic.As part of her response, she shared…”My team is all virtual still. I’ve been calling each of them every day to touch base, see how they are doing, and ask if they need anything. One of my …

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Humans Have a Way of Spinning the Narrative to Fit Their Motives

This meme made an appearance on Facebook last week and it reminded me of the saying, “Trust, but verify.” “Trust, but verify” has always been a rather peculiar statement to me. If you trust something, then there’s no need to verify it. But if you feel the need to verify it, that probably means you don’t …

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If you have people or entities in your life trying to tell you what to think and how to behave right now…

Remember that a wise man once said… If your beliefs ultimately become your destiny, then it is in your best interest to maintain full control of them.You are not obligated in any way to relinquish control of your beliefs, thoughts, words, actions, habits, and values to anyone else.That said, there’s very little at risk and much …

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Changing Your Mind: It Requires Intelligence & Maturity

In his blog post Listening is difficult, Seth Godin notes… Hearing happens when we’re able to recognize a sound.Listening happens when we put in the effort to understand what it means.It not only requires focus, but it also requires a commitment to encountering the experience, intent and emotion behind the words. And that commitment can be …

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Anxious About Returning to Work Amid COVID-19?

Seven Things You Can Do to Enhance Your Well-Being and Maintain a Sense of Internal Control When seeking to understand the risks involved with returning to work and interacting with the masses… 01 Seek out and place far more emphasis on the facts.Scrutinize what you see and hear to discern between fact, opinion, and speculation. Keep opinions …

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There’s Humor In Everything…Even Manure!

Hey, everyone! I have a client who started a brand-new role right before we were quarantined. As part of the national sales conference for this new role, he was asked to submit his 2019 accomplishments. Of course, he couldn’t do that because the role was new to him, so what he decided to do instead was …

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Questions To Ask When You’re Feeling Discontent With How Life Is Playing Out For You

When my clients are discontent and complaining about how life is playing out for them, there are five questions I typically ask to get them thinking about the things they need to be thinking about to be much more thoughtful and intentional with how they choose to move forward. I share those questions in this short …

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What To Do When Your Vulnerabilities Are Exposed

For individuals and organizations alike, this global pandemic has powerfully exposed our vulnerabilities.For some of us, they are vulnerabilities we didn’t even know we had.For others, they were well aware of these vulnerabilities but up until now, they’ve successfully ignored them.Either way, they’ve been exposed, and in my humble opinion, it is a gift!Everyone has vulnerabilities, …

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Finding the Right Coach

Have you heard about INDY MAVEN – a media outlet with an audience of highly engaged, badass women that is quickly becoming the go-to lifestyle hub to explore, eat, drink, and live well in Indianapolis? Co-founders Leslie Bailey, Crystal Grave, and Angela Kingsbury created INDY MAVEN to connect women in central Indiana and deliver captivating & rich …

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