Blog – Debra Joy

Are you missing this important leadership skill?

What’s the simple skill that could transform your company’s performance, culture, and customer satisfaction — and at the same time strengthen your friendships, family, and community? Listening. Simple, right? You may be thinking, “Hold on, I’m listening all the time!” But “not speaking”, waiting for your turn to talk, is not the same as “listening”….

Is our obsession with longevity killing us?

I want to be clear I’ve got nothing against living longer. I’m all for it. I’m just more interested in living better. While the general focus of longevity hacks, practices, and products is to help us live better longer, this obsession with the longevity part often undermines the better part. In 2010, I did an…

A new definition of Resilience

If I were a betting woman, I’d bet you’re seeing this advice come at you from all directions: Wondering how in the heck you’re supposed to do all of that? Here’s a simple way to start: Resilience is defined as “the ability to withstand or bounce back from hardship; toughness.” Phew, that sounds rough. I…

Change your focus. Succeed with more ease.

A few weeks ago I was in a live coaching session with the 2024 cohort of The Success Solution. We’ve got participants from across North America and Australia. That means some of us are heading into spring and some are heading into fall. From my house here on the West Coast, the first day of…

Let your emotions move you closer to your goal.

In my last post I said that knowing why you want to achieve the goal you’ve set for this year can help keep you motivated to keep going when things get tough. And at some point, things will get tough. Knowing why will help because you pursue goals to feel different from how you feel…

Ask yourself this one thing.

As a growth-minded individual, you’ve probably set some goals to make this year even better than last year. The truth is that 92% of people who set a goal for this year will fail to achieve it. No matter how committed they are at the beginning, something gets in the way. That’s sad because when goals and…

Be a Hero

Most people will fail to achieve their goals this year no matter how excited they were when the year began. They’ll get distracted, discouraged, or overwhelmed at some point, and give up. Everyone gets sidetracked on the path to their goal at some point. The journey is never as straightforward as we imagined it would…

Would you like to be exponentially more successful?

If that idea makes you smile, I’d like you to think about one area where success really matters to you. Just One. It can be your business, health, relationships, finances… whatever is most important to you right now. Once you’ve got that, determine what success would be for you: Running in a 5k this summer?…

How to break through limited thinking.

There’s a question I ask myself and others, that might be helpful when you’re feeling stuck and want to see more possibilities. When clients are feeling constricted by their situation, I ask them to forget about the limitations for a moment, and instead, I ask a question that begins, “If you could have it any way you…

How to thrive during family holidays.

Spiritual teacher, Ram Dass said, “If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” In case your family gatherings aren’t always a scene from a Hallmark Holiday Movie ~Here are 7 tips to thrive this holiday season. 1. Accept what you can’t control. The weather, lost luggage, delays, Aunt Maureen’s conspiracy theories,…