The Intersection
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you and your company. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help individuals take ownership of their career and life and help companies create a space where team members thrive.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career or the company you are part of, this is the place.
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Turn a Dream into a Plan
As January winds down, our resolutions may be starting to fade away as the year ramps into full swing. This is the perfect time to double down on a dream and turn it into a plan. Our dreams live in our heads. The things we want to do “someday”. Making the dream...
Does Time Have Interest
A lot has been written about time vs. money and which is more valuable. This has me thinking about time gaining interest. Is this possible? How might this happen? An interest rate on your financial investments is a fixed, annual percentage applied to your...
A New Way to Measure Your Day
Today, I’m combining thinking from Gretchen Rubin and Laura Vanderkam with a bit of my own perspective sprinkled in. Several years ago, Gretchen started talking about alternatives to the “to do” list. She turned her concepts into a cute gift. You might want to...
Careers are Like a Garden
Yesterday, I covered how we need to plant seeds so that things grow in the future. This got me thinking about how to work “seed planting” into everyday routines. That’s when the realization hit me. Most of us spend so much of our days watering and...
Seeds for What’s Next
This morning I listened to a podcast by Laura Vanderkam titled “Plant Seeds to Enjoy the Harvest”. The concept was that you need to intentionally plant seeds so that things have an opportunity for a harvest in the future. I think this is an interesting concept...
Achieving Goals
January is a time of setting goals, hopes, and aspirations for the year ahead. The dreaming part is exciting and fun. The doing part is where the fun can start to plummet. One of the best ways to improve your chances of meeting your goals is to increase...
Personal Development = Experimentation
Personal development is an ongoing process. We continue to work on different areas of our lives with the goal of improvement. Along the way, some things we try will work and we stick with them. Others will fail and fade away. Adapting a test and learn mindset helps...
Considering Your New Years Resolutions
There are many people who set New Year’s resolutions and we hear that most abandon them by mid-February at the latest. I wonder what’s the point of setting a resolution if you are going to give up 40 days into the 365? For those who do make resolutions, an...
Reoccurring Meetings
The transition from one year to another is also a time where reoccurring meetings are set up for the year ahead. Often this is done without thought and just placing them in the same location as the year before. What would happen if we set this foundation...
10 Tips for a Strong Self-Review
At the start of the new year, performance reviews are happening at many companies. Often there are two components to the review: Your self-evaluation and the evaluation from your manager. Over the years, I’ve seen this process done well and watched...
Don’t Wait for “When”
Life is full of moments when we say, "when this happens, I will (fill in the blank)". We wait for many reasons: When I get my first job. When I retire. When work is a bit less busy. When the kids go to college. When I move out of my parents’ house. When I get...
Start by Starting
This phrase came into being about a year ago in conversation with members of The Carbon Almanac community. We were talking about the tendency to postpone or avoid projects that are large, daunting, and don’t have a clear solution. The idea was that if you just did...
A Different Kind of Resolution
When we think about the year ahead, many of the intentions we set focus on things in our lives that we want to improve in some way. We may want to exercise more, improve relationships, or stop a bad habit. The tendency is to make the resolutions around...
Celebrate a Habit
Much is written this time of year about setting goals and changing habits. The focus is striving toward something that will make your life “better”. I am an advocate of personal development and join in the annual quest to embrace the year ahead. In fact, yesterday, I...
Exploring Negative Space
I am part of a wonderful online photography group – 365 Picture Today. The group provides a photo prompt every day of the year. I joined to continue to refine my photography skills and found a wonderful and inspirational group of photographers. Yesterday,...