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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Mid-Week Kick #2: All Ideas Welcome

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.  […]

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Burning to Create, to Build?

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 […]

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Yes, You Too Are Creative…

…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 […]

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Field Guide to Transition #203

Four Questions to Help You Through the Messy Middle…   So much of what I’m observing these days in the personal development literature and thinking has to do with big goals and small steps.  Any big project is daunting, and so much of the work is hard, messy and in the middle – far from […]

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