Let's Give Them Something to Talk About!

...Besides being a great Bonnie Raitt song, it's also a great way to manage your reputation.

If people aren't talking about you, you can't be making much of an impact.

Anyone who ever tells you not to care what others think about you is giving you bad advice! Our reputation is the most precious thing we carry through life. . . it opens doors or closes them, it inspires others (or turns them off), and unlike things we own, it can't easily be repaired when it suffers a blow.

Often people have no idea of the reputation they have or how they are perceived by others. They have little sense of their strengths and weaknesses - which are rarely the same as what those around them see. They have no idea of their blind spots.

To build and protect your reputation requires self awareness. You need to ask: How do I feel about myself? about who I am? Are the majority of the things I do somewhere between poor and mediocre? Are my expressions, interactions, and talk based on negative or positive feelings about myself? Do I deserve to be held in high regard?

It is possible to start over again when you've blown it.

We use some pretty good, basic tools and strategies to help people uncover their strengths, and to work through what is holding them back. We're here to help if you need to start building or re-building your reputation, making more of an impact, and getting more of what you want out of life. Cheers! Karla and Catherine