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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 […]
What Lights YOU Up? I am in love with all of the great brains out there making things and putting them into the world. For example, this: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that […]
Does That Idea Give You Butterflies? It’s likely that if you are on to a good idea, it will give you butterflies and make you uncomfortable. If you are feeling that way about something, and it’s preventing you from trying your idea, I invite you to watch the Dance It Out video of the week. […]
Build | Create Field Guide #2: All Ideas Welcome At work and in our personal lives, we often feel there is a gap between where we are and where we would like to be. It can be a soft whisper or a load roar… but we know something needs to change. Sometimes we aren’t sure how […]
Start Here: What is Your Goal? In creating anything, from an artful conversation to a work of art, there are several key rules. The first, inspired by Steven Covey…begin with the end in mind. This is the second habit of the seven he describes. This chapter encourages the reader to go deep and imagine what […]
…The Workbench Presents: A Manifesto for Creating…and Building YOUR Next Great Thing. This week, I attended the ATD 2018 Conference here in San Diego, and I’m all fired up. Presented by the Association for Talent Development https://www.td.org/, this is for anyone interested in development: leadership, organizational, employee performance, training, personal. The keynote speakers this year included […]