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Creative Structures – Want to Improve Your Creativity? Add More Structure

January 12, 2021 / By Allison Task

Creative Structures - Structure Yields to Creativity

Structure and creativity. Friends of foes? I come down solidly on the side of friends, the kinds of friends who make one another better. Creative structures, when built and deployed correctly, give you the organized space to better utilize your creativity. For others, the structure feels confining. I contend that structure is the ultimate supportive […]

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How To Find Myself and Increase Happiness

December 22, 2020 / By Allison Task

If you’re here, chances are you’ve asked google “how to find myself”. Welcome, you are in the right place. As a career and life coach, I can help you sort that out. I am a bit different from other career coaches. I don’t redo your resume (though I partner with talented folks who do this

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How to Ask Powerful Questions – The Fine Art of Fostering Fresh Thinking

December 3, 2020 / By Allison Task

When I trained to become a coach, the most important tool that I worked to develop is the way I ask questions. In each session, I strive to ask powerful questions in such a way that it helps a clients to consider something they’ve been thinking about for some time in an entirely new light.

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Ring Theory: How to Comfort (And Receive the Comfort You Need)

November 18, 2020 / By Allison Task

In this time of change, uncertainty, and often tragedy, everyone’s in need of comfort and empathy from the people around them. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with trying to comfort others, while asking for a little support yourself. Having said this, during hard times, doing both at the same time isn’t exactly possible. Enter “Ring

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Tension Release Valve: 5 Unorthodox Tools That Relieve the Crushing Emotion We’re Feeling

November 3, 2020 / By Allison Task

2020 has been a time of significant upheaval, pain and crisis. We could all use a tension release. The entire world is alone together in a big change that we didn’t want, which does not seem to have an end in sight. Everyone in this world has been impacted by the pandemic. On top of

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Control and Mastery in A Time of Ambiguity

October 5, 2020 / By Allison Task

throwing up kid with control control and mastery

If we have learned one thing from 2020, it is this: we are not in control of anything or anyone but ourselves. In these uncertain times, there are many unanswered questions that are beyond our control. We don’t have control over the weather, or the seasons. We have limited control over complex situations, and we

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2 Ways To Impact Pandemic Purpose: Prune the Tree, Drop the Rock

September 28, 2020 / By Allison Task

When we first entered into the pandemic “bubble,” it was important to take time to focus on our grief. Life as we knew it was coming to an end for the foreseeable future, and it was important to give ourselves space as we accepted a new level of uncertainty. Pandemic purpose was a far away

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Think You Might Be Stuck in a Rut?

September 14, 2020 / By Allison Task

Are you feeling like you might be stuck in a rut? Gum on the shoe? Wheels are spinning, you’re drowning in quicksand, trudging through water, swimming in jello, or bored of the same old? You’re stuck. Stuck, stuck, stuck. And maybe at first you tried to fight your way out of it. And then realized

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The Power of Storytelling: Set Yourself Up For Growth and Meaning

September 1, 2020 / By Allison Task

During times of personal struggle, so many of us become interested in meaning. Storytelling is both a survival technique and a way for us to truly look at our situation for what it is, and ask ourselves, what good can come out of the situation that I am in? It is a way to attribute

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