Karen Gridley
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Karen Gridley is the excuse removal expert™, converting excuses into productivity, performance and profits! Expert
Karen Gridley Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leading people to take control of their business and their life.
- Best Sellers
- Embrace Your Rights!
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Author, Coach
- Affiliation
- NSA, NAWBO
Karen Gridley is the excuse removal expert™. She leads people to take control of their business and their life as she exposes the excuses that prevent problem solving and block success. As a Recovering Excuse Maker™ herself, Karen gives practical tools for people to own their choices and their outcomes, professionally and personally.
Significant results you’ll learn include a shift from excuses, blaming, and justification to productivity, effectiveness, and accountability. Dealing with issues in business or in life, her principles shed light on how to be more productive, effective and accountable.
Karen works with companies, associations and individuals that want to remove excuses, improve performance, achieve goals, and increase the bottom line.
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What are Your Boulders, Pebbles and Sand?
What are your sand, pebbles and boulders? This may sound like a perplexing question yet that very concept had a significant impact on a number of people earlier this month when I presented Excuse Free Success: Winning by Losing! to a group of entrepreneurs.
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What if everything is perfect?
What if everything is perfect? This is a questio I’ve been practicing applying to a variety of situations in life. For example, we just invited someone over for dinner. This person had never been to our home before. We requested our guest to arrive at five p.m. with the expectation to eat shortly after her arrival. Five o’clock came and went, five fifteen came and went and five thirty was approaching, still no guest.
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Take Another Step or Turn and Run?
Have you ever stood face to face with indecision? You consider taking another step, turning and running, only to find yourself doing neither? There you are seemingly stuck with an insatiable desire to be somewhere else and yet unable to move. What is it that is required to close the gap? Many avoid it as if it is an option – consciously or unconsciously. Some will go to extreme measures to circumvent while others are adept at nonchalantly slithering out of its way. The very mention of the word typically triggers a shudder at minimum and paralyzing fear at the other end of the spectrum.
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Are Disappointments Running Your Life?
How do you respond to disappointment in your life? The answer has determined your today and is shaping your tomorrow. It’s one thing to read the previous statement and agree. And it’s a whole other level to apply the concept. Disappointments show up in all aspects in life. Currently, if you are a college basketball fan you know the NCAA tou ament is in progress. There are a number of surprises that equate to disappointments for fans, players and coaches. You may perceive this as trivial or insignificant. Yet to the people involved it is significant.
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What Determines How You Handle Life’s Challenges?
What are you doing to help yourself during challenging times? Is your response, “What can I do?”, or “Doing the best I can”? Are you doing the best you can? Sometimes I believe we are and sometimes this is a habitual response which prevents us from recognizing it’s an excuse. An excuse because it can be our way of letting ourselves off the hook and avoid taking full responsibility for our lives and our outcomes.
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How Does Your Action Align With Your Priorities And Values?
Have you ever been working on something and have the thought occur to you, “I have no business doing this!”? What are your priorities? What do you value? Make a note of them. Now for the tough question, how aligned are your actions with your priorities and values? In other words many people claim to know their priorities and values and yet few pause to check if they’re acting accordingly.
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What are You Thinking, Saying, Doing?
How many times have you mentally replayed a situation that annoys you, frustrates you, in some way causes you distress? Silly question? How many times have you replayed celebrations, joyous moments? Most people revisit painful memories multiple times and overlook the ones that could actually help.
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Are You Authentic?
Think of a time where you acted in haste or felt you “had to” do something from the sense of someone or something stronger than you, what was the outcome? Often when we’re in these situations we perceive there isn’t time to pause. Yet taking a breath and pausing is very powerful.
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How Well Are You Prepared for Success?
Are you prepared for achieving your desired success or are you waiting for success to get prepared? We seem to want guarantees in life. Even though most would admit there are no guarantees. Well maybe one, we will all die at some point. Anyway, how many times have you placed your progress on hold waiting for an exte al change or proof to show up before taking necessary action?
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Removing Excuses is What Helps You Solve Your Problems and Achieve Success!
Removing Excuses is about broadening your perspective, tapping into the power within and taking control of your outcomes. Taking control of your outcomes doesn’t eliminate problems. Taking control of your outcomes allows you to face adversity as a bump in the road and succeed anyway.
If it’s working for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, change it!
- Karen Gridley
Contacting Karen Gridley
To contact Karen for speaking engagements or personal coaching:
Phone: (602) 870-3652
Email: Karen@Kare
Gridley.com
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Karen is an inspiring, dynamic and thought-provoking speaker, life coach and author. Her personable and humorous approach combined with the natural ability to get people to honestly face the person in the mirror makes Karen one-of-a-kind in her field. She touches people’s hearts as she provides guiding principles to explore endless possibilities. She works with companies, associations and individuals that want to remove excuses, improve performance, achieve goals, and increase the bottom line.
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Some of Karen's Topics Include...
Excuse Free Success: Winning by Losing!
Want to win at life? Everybody does . . . until they realize you first have to lose. Lose your excuses! Winning is a process achieved only by losing what isn’t working. Successful habits cannot take root as long as ineffective habits reign.
In this empowering and practical sessio Karen Gridley reveals why habits are a blessing and a curse and how to maximize them. She establishes the criteria to Embrace Your Rights to achieve the life desired – and Deserved! In addition, Karen unveils the road maps of an excuse maker and a recovering excuse maker.
Whether initially aware or unaware of their excuses, attendees are inspired and experience a paradigm shift with the strategic applications Karen provides to overcome barriers to a balanced, fulfilling life.
Excuse Free Stress Management: Shatter Stress Before it Shatters You!
Feeling STRESSED? Stress is too often the scapegoat for an unhappy life and the inability to sustain motivation and effectiveness. The reality is that stress is a very individualized response and can be conquered.
In this engaging and thought provoking workshop, Karen Gridley examines major stressors and how they affect everyone. She reveals 5 simple Stress Transformers to incorporate into daily life. In addition, Karen awakens people to take a hard, honest look at themselves and their lives.
Whether your people are experiencing sudden or long term stressful feelings, participants leave enlightened and empowered with information and insights Karen delivers.
Excuse Free Communication: Dealing with People You Think You Could Do Without!
Challenged communicating with certain individuals? Effective communication is essential in all aspects of life and in everything we do.
In this insightful and entertaining workshop, Karen Gridley exposes how the people you think you could do without are your gifts. She breaks the barriers of understanding and improving communication skills. In addition, Karen eliminates the excuses that typically derail effective rapport.
Whether a savvy or a bewildered professional, or simply looking to solve the mystery of people’s interactions, attendees gain perspectives and leave refocused with necessary tools for successful communication.