Author Archives: Lisa Ivaldi

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About Lisa Ivaldi

Lisa is a seeker who loves sharing information that will have a positive impact. InsightClarityGrowth.com is a personal growth blog that uses personal stories and experts' theories to share ideas and perspectives. Sometimes looking at things slightly differently can make a huge difference.

What have you stopped seeing that it may be in your best interest to change?

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

4 min read Over the last couple of months I’ve been sharing what I learned from Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. Many of us have habits that we know … Continue reading →

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Changing Habits

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

4 min read In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg describes a habit as “a formula our brain automatically follows: When I see CUE, I will do ROUTINE in order … Continue reading →

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How’s the Water?

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read I recently read Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business because I wanted to find out why I sometimes do what I do. I’m a fairly smart person … Continue reading →

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Thinking bigger than right or wrong

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

2 min read Lately I’ve been wondering how I could possibly have made it to the ripe old age of 52 without, apparently, the slightest idea of how to communicate with others.  Several incidents have arisen recently that have left me … Continue reading →

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Lighten Up

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read This year I have been reading Pema Chödrön’s Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion.  I try and read one of the teachings each morning before I get up. Number 29 struck home so … Continue reading →

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Focus on What You Want

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read Back in July 2011 I wrote a blog post about Setting Your Intentions.  The general idea was to focus on what you do want and not on what you don’t want.  Sounds simple enough, but it is … Continue reading →

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Illusion

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read I recently read an email from my sister-in-law where she mentioned her “baby food processor”.  When I jokingly wrote back that I wasn’t even going to ask why my babyless sister-in-law had a baby food processor, I found … Continue reading →

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Are you excited?

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Lisa Ivaldi

2 min read My 15 year old daughter is always asking me if I am excited about things that are coming up. Even though I am usually looking forward to whatever it is that she is asking about, I can … Continue reading →

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Preconceptions

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read Preconceptions … we all have them, about everything – that guy looks mean, she looks smart, that course will be hard, that jacket will be expensive.  We form a judgement “in advance of adequate knowledge or experience” – the … Continue reading →

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Me and My Shadow

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Lisa Ivaldi

3 min read Up until a year or two ago, I had an idea or a mental image of how I should look that was nothing like I actually looked.  I had it in my head that other people all … Continue reading →

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