Innovation Made Easy

Asking for what we 'need', asserting our desires can feel incredibly difficult, at times.

To be direct about what you need or want can be misinterpreted and you might be coming across as selfish. 

However, knowing the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication can help you to ensure that you communicate with confidence, clarity and care for others. 

Tune in to this weeks episode to get my steps on how to practice assertiveness.

And access my instructions at www.chiaracovone.com/podcast/ep55.

I want you to ask yourselves, “why should I grow?"

"Why should I go to the next step and do the next thing and pursue the next goal?"

" Why should I even bother trying to become self-actualized, or fulfill my potential, or learn something new?"

" Why should I even listen to my own desires when I can just settle in here, and be comfortable?” 

In this episode I discuss the reason and try to convince (if needed being) why growth matters. 

And if it resonates, I want to encourage you to not take a little step today toward self-growth, to take a huge step, to stop comforting yourself with false pleasures, and to put a line in the sand and make a decision to grow.

It matters. I know it does.

Access my free masterclass here.

And for more resources and to leave a comment go to www.chiaracovone.com/podcast/ep54

Do you find yourself feeling out of place in a meeting or even in a relationship and doubting your skills you’re right to sit at the table? 

If you’re suffering of imposter syndrome you are letting self doubts and self criticism influence you.

Despite external evidence of your achievements, those experiencing these thoughts remain convinced that they do not deserve everything that they have achieved and in fact it can go so far as they self-sabotage their success.

But impostor syndrome has also its positive sides.

Balance and self-awareness are step #1 for us to master our mind and use it to the best of our ability.

Full show notes and links at www.chiaracovone.com/ep53

And get access to my free masterclass here.

Everybody seems to wanting to be self-confident. 

And yet, so many people are not actively working towards its attainment. Self-confidence is not something we are born with. When we try new things but we know how to handle our own mind and the emotions that our thoughts will provoke - that's when self-confidence supports our ambitions. Self-confidence is about knowing that things won't always go the way we thought, and being fine about it. Having our own back, not make it mean more than what it is: an attempt where we have an opportunity to learn. If you are somebody who is insecure and has low self-esteem and a low opinion of yourself, and also high demands from yourself, I want to tell you that the only thing you have to do to generate self-confidence is practice feeling your emotions. Leaning into those feelings of discomfort, fear, and desire to run away when the turn up, and be curious about them. 

Because they are just emotions. 

And you can handle any emotion. 

Access my free Masterclass "Stop Procrastinating. Achieve Massive Results" at https://www.covone.se/Goal.

What work do you do that doesn’t seem like work?

In your work, what produces the highest ratio of abundance and satisfaction to the amount of time spent?

What is your unique ability?

Gay Hendricks' book 'The Big Leap' clearly made an impression on me. I love how he talks about the 4 zones and how committing to staying in our zone of Genius can be beneficial for our growth and for the world.

Tune into this week's episode as I summarize the concept of our Upper Limit and distill the 4 zones of: 

1. Incompetence
2. Competence 
3. Excellence
4. Genius

Ultimately, it’s about identifying what comes most naturally to you, and then capitalizing on that, rather than identifying what has come naturally to other people, and trying to teach yourself those skills in order to mimic and recreate their genius. You can absolutely be successful in the zone of excellence. But to take your life to the next level, you cannot keep playing by other people’s rules.

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The company culture is the collection of behaviors and attitudes within an organization. 

Why is it important to focus on company culture? Because it can jeopardize your company’s potential today and in the future. 

In this episode I discuss the signs of unhealthy company culture and a some areas to consider for you to actively contribute to improve the culture, no matter where you are:

- shift it from toxic to healthy or 

- shift it from good to great.

Executive Presence is what you tell the world, what you signal to the world and is the result of three distinctive factors: 

1. Your gravitas. In Latin gravis means ‘serious’. It is about your seriousness. Your dignity. Your gravitas is about how well you know your stuff. Cold. Do you know your stuff three questions deep? This is about your expertise.

2. Your Communication skills. Your style. Can you get your message across? Do you know how you be heard? No matter how profound your gravitas, if you can’t get your message across, it is going to be very difficult.

3. Your presence - how you dress how you stand. If that is not right it will stay in the way for your gravitas to shine.

I know for some of you the above list might feel daunting so I wanted to give you a very easy tip to increase your executive presence and convince you why this small detail can make such a huge difference.

Slowing Down.

Tune in to listen to the full episode and reflect with me on how you can increase your executive presence to have the highest chances of being heard and be the leader your world needs.

If you want to take a test to assess your executive presence, come over to my website and access the survey.

- Chiara

Decisions - should we take a lot of them and train the muscle ? Or should we limit the number of decision and avoiding decision fatigue ? 

My question is why do we get fatigued in the first place ? 

Decisions are the ultimate power we have in our lives and that is a blessing and a curse:

• Afraid that things are not going to turn out how we thought can paralizes us and make us avoid taking the decision, procrastinating and lingering in doubt
• We can create the lives we want by be intentional and deliberate about who we want to be and what live we want to live - we don't need to live out of the decisions we have made in the past.

Tune in to think through this important aspect of our human life with me, and let me help you equip you with questions that can lighten up the whole decision process!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Masterclass about stop procrastination coming up on May 12th. Reserve your spot here.

www.chiaracovone.com/48 for links and to leave a comment.

We used to write a lot of letters and we don’t do that anymore or at least not as often in this fast communicating world - where quick SMSs, calls and emails have replaced writing beautiful long thoughtful letters. 

And I would like to give you an opportunity to actually take fountainpen and paper and start writing a letter to your future self, as well as writing a letter to your future you. 

• what would she say to yourself 
• what does older you do?
• where does he/she live?

Tune into this week's episode as I unfold the importance of the relationship with ourselves across time and what a powerful yet simple tool it can be to take a different perspective on our NOW.

To stay on track with your goals, hop over here and grab my free resource with 5 steps for you to take to stay focused on your goal and enjoy the journey!

Full shownotes at www.chiaracovone.com/47

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” 

Eckhart Tolle 

This episode is about taking care to deliberately create and manage time.

Full shownotes at www.chiaracovone.com/46