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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...