IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS: Mastering the Art of YOU vs. you

90% of your struggles are created by your thoughts.

In a world where external pressures often dictate our self-worth and happiness, It's the Thought That Counts: Mastering the Art of YOU vs. you offers a fresh perspective and a practical roadmap. Take the wheel of your life back-and then drive yourself to your center.

Workshop your conflict! Each stop on the roadmap comes alive using work and life scenarios, unraveling your conflict. The practical tips, tools, and questions in the workbook help you create a systematic thinking strategy to resolve conflict from the inside out with just three steps: pause, ponder, and pivot.

Transform chaos into calm as you Discover the Power of Your Thoughts:

• Meet your Thought Committee: The cast of characters that lives between your ears. You'll discover that the thoughts that make you tick are the same thoughts that tick you off.
• Reframe Limiting Beliefs: Pinpoint the thoughts that hold you back and learn techniques to choose positive, empowering beliefs.
• Embrace Acceptance: Your most important relationship is with yourself. Practice treating yourself with kindness (even in the sloppy moments).
• Cultivate Resilience: Use your stumbling blocks as stepping stones to your goals. You have managed challenges all your life, today is no different

There are days when you believe you seized the wrong day. That's OK! This fun, interactive journey provides the essential tools to honor your humanness and integrate your mind and body in the decision-making process. You'll learn how to respond with confidence and clarity, no matter the speed bumps of life.

As a conflict resolution coach, I have a unique mix of skills. With over 2000 hours coaching clients through conflict, my objective is to be a space for them to re-align with their values, identify why they get upset, and operate as their best self as they manage conflict and difficult conversations. By building a webinar series on topics such as contracts, negotiations, ethics, difficult conversations, human-ness in project management, de-escalation, resilience, and conflict, I found the common theme of human-ness underpins everything we seek to accomplish-and it starts with connecting with yourself first. My formal education is diverse. My BA is in communications and my MA is in dispute resolution. I earned the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation. My certifications are a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) and a Project Management Professional (PMP). Part-time, I run our family-owned animal hospital. Giving back is important, so I volunteer on the Girl Scout leadership team, am a court mediator, and am co-director of Chapter Programs ICF NJ. For fun, I earned my 2nd-degree black belt in MMA and have an advanced brown belt in Goju Ryu, so if I cannot solve conflict one way, I have options. My book, It's the Thought That Counts: Mastering the Art of YOU vs. you, formalizes my coaching process and provides practical and actionable ideas on how to de-escalate yourself so you can manage the external "Something Happened" as your best possible self. Part of our Girl Scout motto is to "make the world a better place" and the action is to leave something better than you found it. My hope for the book is that it gives you a roadmap when you are at a personal or professional crossroad.