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!
Filters for Wellbeing
I’m an advocate for considering the 8 dimensions of wellbeing. Occupational. Emotional. Social. Intellectual. Physical. Environmental. Spiritual. Financial. We can look at these 8 areas of our life through many different filters. Here are just a few examples: Five...
Thank You
I hope this post finds you preparing for or remembering a great Thanksgiving. A day filled with family, fun, food, and maybe some football. I’m writing this as we prepare for the day. And, on the heels of writing about my 731st blog post (2 years!). Both events have...
The Power of Awe
Awe is a complex and multifaceted emotion. It often arises in response to something vast, transcendent, or beyond our normal understanding. Monica Parker suggests that the last two stages of wonder – wow and whoa – produce awe. On Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions,...
Discovering Wonder
When you look up the definition of wonder, there are a couple meanings. Wonder is a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration or awe. Wonder is also a desire to be curious or know something. This second definition creates the drive behind intellectual exploration....
Tools for the Holidays
The holiday season brings fun, food, and family. From Thanksgiving through the New Year, our calendars are full. Many look forward to the season and dread it at the same time. We are excited to spend time with those we love. The shift in routine. Possibly off from...
Weekly Summary – 11.23.24
Welcome to the Saturday Summary! I hope you enjoy and connect with a few ideas. What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary There is no theme for the posts this week. They jump from occupational wellbeing, to astrology, and creativity. My personal favorite is my reflection on my...
Creativity vs. Problem Solving
Back in the spring, my sister gave a commencement speech at MIT. In this speech, she talked about the problems the world is facing. And how the graduates should focus on solving big problems. We have talked about this before. She is at her best when she has a...
Reflecting on 2 Years
Today marks two years of writing a blog post every day. I write 7 days a week and post 5 new topics a week. For 2 years. 104 Weeks. 731 Days – we had a leap year. 😊 Looking back, I’ve dug into many topics and learned a LOT about things I didn’t know. Topics...
What Do We Really Need
Job descriptions, resumes, and conversations at work are full of words focused on change in a fast paced environment. We hear things like we need people with “agility and flexibility” who can “deal with ambiguity”. These words can mean different things to different...
Pluto Moving to Aquarius
Today, I’m going to highlight a topic I will call a hobby – astrology. When I was in my teens, my girlfriend and I would buy our horoscope books each year. In the morning before school, we would discuss the predictions for the day. Since then, I loosely follow through...
Ladders and Jungle Gyms
This morning, I was thinking that careers are more like jungle gyms than they are a ladder. A quick search online tells me this isn’t an original idea. Likely, I soaked in the concept when reading “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg years ago. From a Forbes article in...
Weekly Summary – 11.23.24
Welcome to the Saturday Summary! I hope you enjoy and connect with a few ideas. What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary The posts this week follow a very clear theme – agency and autonomy. We dive into the reasons they impact our happiness, the 8 dimensions of wellbeing, how...
Agency & Autonomy at Work
This week, we’ve been covering the topics of agency and autonomy in our lives. The focus today is how these qualities impact our work and how we can maximize. Autonomy We will start with autonomy – the size of the invisible box that defines our ability to make...
Shaping Our Agency & Autonomy
As I’ve been reading and writing about agency & autonomy, I’ve started to wonder if our early life experiences have an impact on our beliefs as adults. If our parents, caregivers, teachers, coaches, romantic partners, and first bosses reduced our autonomy, did...
Agency, Autonomy and the 8 Dimensions of Wellbeing
We have discussed how autonomy and agency connect to happiness. Then, we dove into the differences between the two. Today, let’s look at how they come into play with each of the 8 dimensions of wellbeing. Autonomy We’ll start with autonomy or the size of the invisible...