Marketing is Magic

  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 […]

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Letting Go

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 […]

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Dropping Into Joy – 5 Things

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 […]

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4 Reasons to Stop Resisting and Make This List!

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 […]

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“Let Life In and Let You Out”

“We let life in by relating our expectations to the world around us and the future as we anticipate it.  We let ourselves out – to become – as we focus on many other-directed things.  Such things include humor and laughter, reinforcing strengths of self; warm, reciprocal relationships, good food and drink; eagerness for change; […]

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Build | Create Field Guide # 4 – Aspire Higher

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 […]

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