Wendy Appel

10 Valuable Tips for Your Beginning

Wendy Appel — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:30:39 +0000

What appeared as two inverted “v” silhouettes emerging in the foreground, turned out to be a furry-eared donkey. As my friend Mar and I enjoyed an early evening hike, by chance I looked up just in time to catch him surface from behind the hill. There was Mr. Donkey set against the backdrop of the limestone [...]

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Giver Success Creates Value. Are You a Giver?

Wendy Appel — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:57:43 +0000

When the weekly Brain Pickings newsletter landed in my inbox, I clicked on their link that took me to an excellent summary of the book: Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam M. Grant, Ph.D. I have not yet read the book, however I found the review intriguing. According to the review, the book breaks people out [...]

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Psycho-Cybernetics and Grandma Frieda

Wendy Appel — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:04:27 +0000

Back in the day, my grandma touted the wonders of the book, Pycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S. (1960). It stuck in my mind but I never got around to reading it. Maybe the timing wasn’t right. I know it shaped the way my grandma thought and how she led her life. Grandma taught me to “never say [...]

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I Choose Now

Wendy Appel — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:40:24 +0000

If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you know I commune with the natural world regularly for solace, inspiration, clarity, deeper contact with myself, to integrate experiences, to source meaning … I meander and let my intuition do the walking. On a recent outing, I chose not to let my mind wander but [...]

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What if We Banished “Boss”?

WendyAppel — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:49:29 +0000

Today’s post was originally published on the Lead Change Group blog in 2012. A recent Forbes article: 31 Telltale Signs You Are A Horrible Boss got me thinking and it inspired this post. Many of us will recognize our former or present bosses described there and, worse yet, we may recognize ourselves! I began to wonder what [...]

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A Case of Mistaken Identity

Wendy Appel — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:00:31 +0000

Family, community, and culture exert a significant influence on and help shape the expression of our personality and consequently our Enneagram Type. The following is a personal account that sheds light on how this works. After Stephan (not his real name) purchased my book and read it, he contacted me. I thought our exchange would be valuable for many [...]

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The Case for U Time

Wendy Appel — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:00:46 +0000

Today I went on a walk in nature. It was tough to pry myself away from the demands of work; from the incessant incoming emails, phone calls, social media … all begging for a response. Forget proactive, I have become a reaction machine. Boing – incoming Facebook message. Bing – Gmail. Bong – Mac mail. [...]

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Integrated Response: Head, Heart, Gut

Wendy Appel — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:00:32 +0000

When we make decisions or respond to situations, some of us are gut people. We trust our gut and act on our gut instincts. Others of us trust our analytical abilities. We like to figure things out first, weigh the pros and cons, optimize decisions, assess … There are others who trust their heart. How [...]

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You are NOT Your Role

Wendy Appel — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:00:17 +0000

Kent (Type 1 Perfectionist) was focused on putting some order to, and structure around our project as we ended our team meeting. Happy that we had someone who had a natural ability to take stuff and structure it, I commented, “Every team needs a Type 1.” Kent reminded me that in my book I write that the Enneagram [...]

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Be Your Own Hero

Wendy Appel — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:51:56 +0000

We love our superheros. Comic books and movie scripts are filled with them. We endow our heroes with great powers, while believing these powers are somehow out of our own reach. In a recent article in Smithsonian Magazine, author Robin Rosenberg offers, “As a clinical psychologist who has written books about the psychology of superheroes, [...]

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Rediscovering Community

Wendy Appel — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:30:41 +0000

In last’s weeks post, I wrote about the role of curiosity. Join me on my journey in this week’s post to see where curiosity led me as I explored the role and meaning of community. Learn what I discovered. ______________________________________________________ I grew up living in a village of 13,000 people and have had the good [...]

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The Essential Role of Curiosity

Wendy Appel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:10:32 +0000

On your leadership and life journey, an essential travel companion is your curiosity. When you invite curiosity to join you on your journey, your defenses drop, your inner critic subsides, your “I know” or “I should know” is no longer such a dominant voice. Your openness and availability to others and yourself grows and deepens. As [...]

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Small Choices Big Impact

WendyAppel — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:00:16 +0000

Small Choices Big Impact originally appeared on Susan Mazza’s blog Random Acts of Leadership around the time my book InsideOut Enneagram: The Game-Changing Guide for Leaders was released. I am grateful to Susan for allowing me to share it here and I believe its timeless message is as relevant today as it was when it was [...]

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Making Room for Your Inner Authority

WendyAppel — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:00:17 +0000

Today I’m pleased to share a guest post from Dr. Roxanne Howe-Murphy of Deep Living Institute. While it’s not something talked openly about in “polite” conversation, there’s one thing that everyone in the world has in common—the inner critic. It is found in every hard-held opinion and judgment, in every comparison, in the loud inner [...]

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Just a Little More Courage

Wendy Appel — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:28:51 +0000

As I prepared to enter a new year, I began a journey of inquiry with this question, “What am I committed to?” One word … COURAGE, demonstrated through courage in work, courage in choices and courage in relationships. Courage at work. I went to an international conference to deliver a paper and to speak on [...]

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