Welcome to Dr. K’s Blog
This is the place where you’ll find information, wisdom and gain perspective on how to master the Hidden Powers Drivers that can shatter limitations and propel you to your greatest levels of success.
We’ll look at business, marketing, leadership, psychology, peak performance, personal growth, and mind-body health, and how it all works together to help you operate at peak performance more consistently in your business and personal life.
We’ll be providing new and expanded insights and strategies to help you see through the lens of your True Power State and reach your next levels of impact and success.
High Achiever Challenges: Not Unrelated
The hidden price of being different: For high achievers, health challenges, relationship strain, business problems, and mental and emotional issues aren't unrelated occurrences—they're intimately connected to the same Power Drivers that fuel extraordinary outward success. If not understood and addressed, these dynamics may exacerbate current challenges, or continue to create new ones across every area of life — eroding joy and well-being despite outward achievements, or eventually undermining the very success they helped create. What becomes possible when you recognize these challenges not as separate problems to fix, but as gateways to a more integrated way of living and achieving?
The Ascending Warrior’s Journey: Power Drivers & Breast Cancer
For women navigating breast cancer—especially high achievers who've always charted their own course—this journey offers unique challenges and extraordinary opportunities for transformation that extend far beyond medical treatment alone. Beyond the Battle Metaphor The traditional "fighting cancer" narrative falls short for high-achieving women. it actually can be quite harmful – an important subject for another post. The Ascending Warrior approach, rather than focusing on battling or merely surviving, transforms the experience into a gateway for deeper healing and growth. The same distinct psychology that has driven your success throughout life now shapes how you navigate this health challenge, creating both powerful resources and potential limitations. Understanding Your Power Drivers Power Drivers are the fundamental forces that shape your healing experience, define your relationship with treatment, and influence the quality of your life throughout your cancer journey. These forces operate across multiple dimensions—physical, emotional, mental, and energetic—affecting everything from how [...]
Whether you shatter limitations – or create them
Whether you shatter limitations – or create them – comes down to mastering your Power Drivers and the field of consciousness from which they emerge.
A High Achiever’s Hidden Struggle: Agency, Sovereignty, Self-Authority
I want to share some insights about a hidden struggle that many high achievers face, one that I've personally grappled with throughout my life. It's a topic that is rarely discussed at its deepest level; it's incredibly vulnerable and lies at the core of our being. It profoundly impacts every aspect of our lives. By starting this conversation, we can support each other in navigating these challenges and stepping into our full potential. For as long as I can remember, I've appeared to embody these qualities in abundance. A disruptor, a rebel (much to my mother’s dismay), I spoke out with unpopular opinions, questioned accepted "truths," and blazed unconventional, often controversial, trails. Few would have guessed that agency, sovereignty, and self-authority were complex, ongoing struggles for me, as they are for many high achievers. Let me define these terms as I'm using them: Agency is the capacity to take [...]
Meet them where they are… Not where you want them to be
This principle is crucial for high achievers - not just in leading others, but in navigating our own growth. Our drive for excellence often triggers our resistance to accepting current reality, pushing us to force change rather than allow transformation.
For high achievers, this resistance may show up as: [...]
High Achiever Sensitivity in a Turbulent World
Many high achievers who are sensitive are experiencing anxiety, stress, and overwhelm as they pick up the powerful energies around them, including fear, fury, and hopelessness. I'm one of them, picking up those intense feelings, and sensing shifts and events often before they happen (even from afar). Regulating our nervous system is crucial now - and quite a challenge.
Earlier this month, I shared that while I often choose one word or focus, this year I decided on three perspectives: Trust, Curiosity, and Wonder. [...]