I read, listen to podcasts, and pull from personal experiences to push my thinking in all areas of personal and team growth and development. The posts focus on my perspectives around the information I’m currently consuming. I hope these ideas and prompts are relevant to you and your personal development journey. Enjoy!
Weekly Summary & PodList – 9.28.24
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development This week, the posts cover career progression, stress, and deep work. I think several of them are thought-provoking and I hope they get your mind spinning on your career and work in general. Find...
4 Hours a Day
According to two older articles from Inc Magazine and The Guardian, the amount of creative work hours that knowledge workers are able to handle each day is 4. Yes, four total hours of deep work. They looked at science and examples from historical thought leaders to...
The Experience Sweet Spot
Lately, I’ve been looking back on my career and trying to pinpoint a moment. That moment when I shifted my perspective from wanting to expand my years of experience to wanting to contract them. I’m calling this the “years of experience” conundrum. Early in my...
Organizational Impact of Stress
Many organizations are in a vicious cycle. Employees feel overworked and under stress. When stressed, we react using our amygdala, not our pre-frontal cortex. This means we are making decisions driven by fear and emotions, not rational thinking. When business...
Multipotentialites
After watching the video that inspired yesterday's post on Squiggly careers, another popped up that caught my attention. This talk by Emilie Wapnick featured the concept of multipotenialites. Emilie believes we are trained to think that we can only become one thing....
Find Your Squiggle
This week, I found a TED Talk with Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper. They were talking about concepts from their book – The Squiggly Career. They say the challenge in moving to squiggly careers stems from the “legacy of the ladder”. Climbing the ladder is engrained in the...
PodList & Summary
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development This week, the posts cover wealth beyond the financial, transitioning from success to significance, interview styles, and more. What is Wealth? The first post has us looking beyond financial wellbeing to...
Interview Personalities
I recently listened to a HBR Podcast titled "What’s Your Interview Style?”. The episode interviewed Anna Papalia about her book: Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing She covers the four types of interviewers/interviewees that are covered in her book. There...
LinkedIn “Open to Work” Gets Mixed Reviews
Fast Company recently published an article this spring on the LinkedIn “open to work” badge. The content provides the pros and cons of using the badge on your profile. And, if you choose to use it should you use it for everyone or just recruiters? There are obvious...
Lessons on Transitions
With football season in full swing, I was reminded of an interview with Drew Brees. He was on the news back in the spring. Talking about his transition to a post-football life. I was particularly drawn to one quote: “My priorities are shifting from success to...
Identity: Think. Speak. Do.
There is a great Jane Austin quote that speaks to our identity: “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” – Jane Austin Recently, I heard someone adding the idea of joining as a dimension of “doing”. Join a group with similar interests –...
What is Wealth?
There was a quote by James Clear that got me thinking: “There are 4 types of wealth: Financial Wealth (money) Social Wealth (status) Time Wealth (freedom) Physical Wealth (health) Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2 but rob you of 3 and 4.” - James Clear We...
PodList & Summary – 9.14.24
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development This week, the posts cover career stories, insights, and titles. There is also a post on imposter syndrome and how we need bravery and courage to avoid regret. Career Stories. The first post of the week...
Bravery Overcomes Regret
In an episode of Self-Improvement Daily, the 2-minute episode covered this quote: “If courage is taking action despite fear, then bravery is the solution to regret.” – Brian Ford The idea of bravery being a solution to regret resonated with me. In particular, I...
What Type of Imposter?
We’ve likely all heard about (and felt) imposter syndrome. These are the times we compare ourselves to others and feel inadequate. The formal definition is “the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a...