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!

How Do You Want to Feel?

Often hopes and dreams for the future are stated with goals. A promotion. A larger / different house. To start a family. Some time to myself. A day off. The list could go on and on. One question we often don’t ask is how do we want to feel? At work. At home. With our...
Saturday Summary – 10.12.24

Saturday Summary – 10.12.24

What I’ve Been Up To This past week, I’ve been working on a few content projects that will be coming out on the blog and in workshops soon. One project is digging into personal branding and creating exercises we can do to better articulate our personal brand, and in...

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Are You Procrastinating?

Are You Procrastinating?

I recently listened to a Marie Forleo podcast episode about procrastination. Some of the stats she shared were shocking: The average person spends 218 minutes a day or 55 days a year procrastinating. And procrastination costs the US economy 70 billion a year! She also...

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Lifestyle Planning

Lifestyle Planning

On an episode of Cal Newport’s podcast, he talked about lifecycle-centric planning. The episode was great and led me to this blog post on his website. The primary message is this: “Fix the lifestyle you want. Then work backwards from there.” – Cal Newport The entire...

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Overcoming Weakness

Overcoming Weakness

I’ve been thinking about weaknesses lately. For those who know me, I prefer the Gallup CliftonStrengths approach to strength-based growth. In fact, when I do talk about weaknesses, I often mention “strengths in overdrive”. Because when our strengths are in overdrive...

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Freelance / Solopreneur Rates

Freelance / Solopreneur Rates

I continue to admire freelancers and solopreneurs. The tenacity to stick with their craft, find clients, and make the financials work. It’s not easy to get established. Everyone says it takes 3 years. From the outside, that seems crazy. On the inside, you get it. Many...

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MeEO – Managing Career History

MeEO – Managing Career History

When we start to think about our career content, we often think about our resume. The place where we capture the highlights of our career. We think in bullet points, action words, and results. Is this enough? Do we capture the images, the emotion, the passion we felt...

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PodList & Summary – 10.5.24

PodList & Summary – 10.5.24

Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development   This week the topics cover topics like procrastination, productivity, and discovering life goals through the lens of life personas. Ladders and Titles are Holding Us Back. This first post of the week...

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Sabbaticals and Career Breaks

Sabbaticals and Career Breaks

There is more news these days about sabbaticals. These are extended breaks from a job that can last anywhere from one month to two years. The difference between a sabbatical and a career break is employment. If the intention is to return to an employer, you take a...

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A Great Procrastination Tip!

A Great Procrastination Tip!

I’ve read and listened to so many ideas on procrastination. Today, I heard a tip on an episode of Optimal Living Daily that was brilliant and new to me. The concept is called “The Habit Rule of Half” and was developed by Anthony Ongaro. You can read all the details in...

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Trifecta of Productivity

Trifecta of Productivity

As we build a sustainable life, we need to be productive. Enjoying deep work, getting “chores” completed, and having time for the things that matter to us. The challenge is ensuring we feel productive and not busy. Productive is accomplishment. Busy creates anxiety...

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Life Personas

Life Personas

Personas are used as a foundation in marketing to communicate customer details. These descriptions give the customer personality and “life”. I was wondering if this concept could be applied as we work to design our career and life. My idea was to use personas to...

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Ladders and Titles Holding Us Back

Ladders and Titles Holding Us Back

The way work is based on career ladders and titles is holding us back. Here, I don’t just mean individuals, I mean companies as well. Individuals don’t have the career opportunities that their skills could achieve. Companies don’t get the most out of the team they...

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Weekly Summary & PodList – 9.28.24

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...

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4 Hours a Day

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...

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The Experience Sweet Spot

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...

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