Halfway Day is coming up next Thursday, July 2nd. The first half of the year will be behind us and we have half remaining. This is the perfect time to take pause, reflect, celebrate and set intentions. In order to take advantage of the day, it’s good to plan ahead....
When we talk about work, we use words like jobs and chores. Typically, jobs are paid, and chores are unpaid activities for maintaining our homes. Within jobs and chores, we have duties, tasks and assignments. The tasks are ongoing work. Duties imply work are obligated...
This episode of Self-Improvement Daily mentioned the following quote: “Stop trying to prove yourself. Start trying to improve yourself. One keeps you stuck performing for other people. The other keeps you growing for yourself.” - Fio Bros The statement immediately...
When we hear the word “introvert,” certain stereotypes tend to surface. Quiet. Shy. Reserved. Yet, introversion isn’t a single trait. It’s a collection of preferences, tendencies, and energies. Most of us live somewhere on the spectrum between introvert and extrovert....
Earlier today, I heard that we all need mobility and stability as we age. Mobility is our range of motion and flexibility allowing fluid movement. Stability is our ability to maintain balance during movement allowing us to move with control. They provided the example...
We’ve all heard of circadian rhythms. The natural 24-hour cycles that govern our sleep and wake patterns. It’s the backdrop of how we live even if we don’t always realize it. I’ve learned that there are also cycles that live within this day/night cycle. These can be...
Self-awareness isn’t one thing. It’s a system. A multi-angle mirror that shows us both who we are and how we move through the world. To live with clarity and intention, we need to know four key things: What fuels us. How we show up. Where we shine. And the patterns...
This morning, I listened to a great book summary on the Next Big Idea Podcast titled One Leadership Skill That Matters Most. It featured the book, The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance. The episode is worth a listen. I added the book...
When we think about a wealthy life, we think of money. Financial abundance. Success. Which quickly ties to our occupation. Which leads to defining our success in life to our job and our title. I think it’s time to flip the script. Moving from a wealthy mindset to a...
A few years ago, I worked with a client focused on organizational change management. Through the research and strategy work, we kept coming back to one key realization: change management wasn’t a project. It was the environment. Markets shift. Technology evolves....
A while ago, I heard an HBR IdeaCast podcast episode that stuck with me. Leslie Perlow, HBR Professor & founder of the Crafting Your Life Project, talked about how busy executives find joy (or don’t). During the interview she talked about finding our JAM – Joy,...
As I typed the title of this post, the word “enough” made a personal impact. One word with a great deal of weight. The dictionary defines enough as: “A degree or quantity that satisfies or that is sufficient or necessary for satisfaction.” So, to know if we have...
A bit like the movie Inside Out, we all have a team inside our mind. Our troublesome inner critic. Our inner child that pulls us back to who we were (with all the good and bad). Our wise inner sage. Our strong inner superhero. I heard the idea of naming these inner...
Sometimes a quote hits in a new way. Today, that happened with this one: “Think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuck I recently finished reading the book What’s the Point?Turning Purpose Into Your Daily Superpower by Tom Rath....
I was able to read an advance copy of Tom Rath’s new book, What’s the Point? Turning Purpose Into Your Daily Superpower, through the Next Big Idea Club. I’ve enjoyed Tom’s other books, How Full Is Your Bucket? and StrengthsFinder 2.0, so I was curious to see how he...
When I was doing some research on the framework of doing, being, and becoming, this quote popped up in my research: “No one else has the capacity to know us as well as we can know ourselves. It is in the awareness of ourselves that our strengths lie. And awareness of...
Conversations about introverts are often confusing. Many people believe that introverts are shy. Or don’t like being around people. Anti-social. While extroverts are seen as the life of the party. The true difference between introverts and extroverts is how they...
I continue to love gaining new insight about myself. A great source of ideas often comes from statements Gretchen Rubin makes. While I feel like I know many of her observations, this one was new to me: “One thing that comes up in the workplace a lot is jugglers and...
Information is coming at me from every direction. Newsletters. Books. Blog posts. White papers. Summaries from ChatGPT. I want to consume it all. Yet time is limited. Precious. A New Strategy So, I’m trying something new. Daily reading time. This isn’t for books; I...
Life is full of challenges and changes. We plan and then the plans go awry. We go into conversations with one intention and they drift somewhere else. Amidst all the change, we can only control our own actions and emotions. In 2004, Jack Canfield came up with this...
On a recent episode of The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, Joe interviewed Valerie Tiberius. She mentioned during the episode that her father suggested a “Chuck It List”. Many create Bucket Lists – for their life, their year, even their summer. However, I think we would...