by Alexia Parks | Jan 29, 2015 | Article
Could THIS be the most disruptive idea in America: The evolution of women’s leadership from the home and the hearth to the White House. As an expert on The New Science of the Female BRAIN, my work shows that women are uniquely suited to manage high levels of complexity during highly stressful, volatile times. In an online report, I draw upon 40-years worth of research across a dozen fields of science, including neurobiology, the neuroplastic brain, split-brain research, the psychology of perception, and both cultural and physical anthropology. ALEXIA PARKS is a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations, an author, and one of Newsweek’s “50 People Who Matter Most On The Internet.” She is also the founder of the 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Training Program with training applications for all women, of all ages, in all countries. h/t: women, leadership, White House, science, neuroplasticity, neuroplastic brain, neuroscience, split-brain research, psychology, cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, hardwired, success, politics, Election 2016...
by Alexia Parks | Jan 12, 2015 | Article
Success TIPS for 2015 – from The Most Powerful Women in the World 1st Place Winner: Rehmah Kasule. Many of you know that I am a virtual mentor with the United Nations. The woman I have mentored over the past year is a champion of women and girls. She has been working to lift 200 young women out of the slums of Kampala, Uganda by teaching them micro entrepreneurship, providing mentorship and doing leadership training,and she has been successful. #1. Success has less to do with hard work and more to do with massive focus on your few best opportunities. #2. Why resist change when it’s the main source of your growth? #3. The more you invest in growing and developing your mindset and way of seeing the world, the more everything you touch transforms in a breathtakingly positive way. #4. Pursuing perfection really does matter (in a world highly accepting of mediocrity). #5. Spending full days with zero technology to refuel or do important work is a game-changer. #6. Doing something super-nice for at least one stranger a day gives them a gift and an even larger one to yourself. #7. Adore your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone. #8. The smartest thing you can do to grow a great company is to first sweat getting A-players only onto your team and then sweat training and developing them so they play their A-game. #9. Most tv is toxic. #10. Have the discipline to clean out all the energy-draining people in your life. You really do rise or fall to the level of your associations. #11. Doing huge dreams...
by Alexia Parks | Jan 7, 2015 | Article
There is a pattern to life, and a pace. A successful person learns how to live fully in each moment and see it for what it is, not what they want it to be. They know that life is not a race, that comes with “overnight” success. Like an athlete training for a race, they know that life is more like a marathon. That each hurdle they face and overcome, strengthens them. They grow stronger. They know that it is the pace, not the race, that helps them achieve success in any endeavor they choose. Like them, we can apply the lessons of a long distance marathon runner to set and achieve high goals. We can assess our strengths and weaknesses. We can set higher goals, again and again. Looking forward, it is our resolve to grow, to learn, to breathe in life more fully, that fills us with hope. In each moment, as we learn to pace ourselves to handle the ups and downs of life, we begin to discover our true potential. We learn how to “be all we can be” in every moment. Then when confronted with hurdle that seems too high to overcome, messages from the heart, delivered through the spoken voice, the written word, the healing touch of a hand, and even a simple act of kindness will lift us up and over the tragedies, suffering, or painful moments of life. These “teachable” moments that some might view as setbacks are also one way that life reminds us to slow down and take a deeper breath, to pace ourselves. Renewed, we stand up once...
by Alexia Parks | Dec 20, 2014 | Article
Solstice Reflections: How can simplicity serve us? At dawn, still lingering in bed, I breathe in each breath deeply. Each breath is a gift. Then Ahhhhhhhh! I let it go; send it outdoors, out through an open door. Let it serve the orange tree in the garden that breathes in life through every leaf. As I breathe out, the tree inhales.There is an uncommon harmony in living one’s life close to Nature. Tomorrow when the sun has warmed the garden, I shall relax with a cup of tea beside a rose bush, or perhaps the lavender or rosemary hedge while my body – free of stress – does home repair. The deeper insight: LIFE heals from the inside out. Leadership also arises from the inside...
by Alexia Parks | Dec 8, 2014 | Article
Following the successful inauguration of the Naropa sponsored 10 TRAITS Academy Women’s Leadership Intensive, we have now created professional and personal development curriculum that offers you daily, measurable success. It will be offered as a 30-Day program that includes one week onsite, four weeks online, and final weekend onsite. The power of this program is its universal application. It can be applied to any field or any endeavor that you choose including: personal or professional development, relationship building, conflict resolution, and team building, as well as the environment, government, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership. This unique certificate program will be personally taught by United Nations Virtual Mentor, Alexia Parks, the Founder and CEO of the 10 TRAITS Academy. The program includes on-site, one-on-one training, followed by four weeks of online interaction with mentor-leaders, participants, and inspirational speakers. It combines classroom time with and online instruction. Daily practical exercises for application at home and in the workplace with guaranteed success. The program concludes with a three-day onsite review of your progress, and daily group and private consultations with mentor leaders. If you’re not already on our mailing list, put your name on our WAITING LIST...
by Alexia Parks | Nov 18, 2014 | Article
WATCH Alexia Parks 10 TRAITS keynote talk, titled: Darwin’s Remarkable Women is now a video. 10 TRAITS Women’s Leadership Training is the only training program in the world based on the New Science of the Female Brain. You can also access Alexia Parks keynote...