Change of Scenery

I recently wrote about the importance of choosing your peers wisely.  It’s not just true for teenagers! For those interested in more on this, I enjoyed this conversation between Molly Graham and Bill Gurley on the podcast WorkLife (we read Bill’s book Runnin’ Down a Dream in book club last spring)

Another way Angela Duckworth recommends changing your situation to affect your thinking and actions is to adjust your physical environment. It can happen in minor ways (e.g. tidy up your office and put your phone farther out of reach), but sometimes a major change of setting is worth putting on the table. Getting into a whole new environment has a way of unlocking fresh thinking that we can rarely access from our desk.

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Ten-Year Time Travel

Specifically what do you love?

I often ask participants in workshops to share something they could talk about for hours. (Sometimes I must add the caveat that I’m not inviting them to talk about it right now — just to name it for the rest of us! And if they struggle to think of an answer, it can help to mention that it may be the thing that makes their kids roll their eyes and say, “Don’t get them started on that!”)

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