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Take a breath, grab a refreshment, breathe it in. It is so easy to get frantic over the holidays and long for inner peace, rejuvenation, time with our people – true joy. We are all wanting and needing more of this. Take charge – forget about the “one more thing” on the list. Your people […]
Focus is a Muscle. Muscles Require Exercise to Stay Strong Cal Newport talks about Deep Work. Greg McKeown talks about Essentialism. Gary Keller talks about The One Thing. All of these authors are speaking to the importance of gaining and keeping focus while reducing distractions in service to a specific work result – in […]
Marketing is Magic: A Lesson for Systems Thinkers People who are systems thinkers often can’t figure out why others “don’t get it.” To this category of thinker, many problems stem from root causes; fixing anything but the root cause doesn’t solve the problem. They go slow to go fast. Sometimes they end up in […]
Letting Go, Adding On Seth Godin writes a blog post every day. Some short, some long, but every day. Love this idea, want to play too. In this 49th trip around the sun, I’m letting go of the extra weight being carried. This includes: The inner critic that tells me posting a blog every day […]
Dropping Into Joy – 5 Things 1. Song: Late in the Evening by Paul Simon (So good!!!) 2. A perfectly chilled beer 3. A desert sunrise 4. C says: making Mom laugh 5. T says: waking up with my family Today, this moment, there is joy. Life is complex, at times overwhelming and there are […]
Photo Credit: Ali Yahya via Unsplash Do You Keep an Accomplishment List? Several months ago, I was talking with a friend who was feeling out of sorts with her career, and I suggested she start to keep an Accomplishment list, and that we would review it every few weeks or so. She hated the idea […]