My mom and my four-year-old granddaughter Tatum are having an ongoing conversation these days about the difference between needs and wants. A recent installment went like this:
Grandma: “I’m going grocery shopping, Tatum. Grandad asked me to get him some ‘wants’ not just ‘needs.’ What do you think I should buy him?”
Tatum: “Definitely cookies.”
As I write this, I am preparing to head to Heartwood Farm and Cidery tomorrow for the first full day of our new Four Seasons of Transformation program. Although it’s early spring on the calendar, it’s late winter based on the vestiges of snow still on the ground and the cool temperatures that are lingering.
Continue reading “Rewilding”Metaphors are helpful until they’re not.
I’ve previously written about the limitations of the chrysalis metaphor to help us understand human transformations. Unlike a caterpillar, that fully dissolves into goo before emerging as a wholly new creature, people navigating change tend to bring parts of their past identities with them even as they add new elements in new seasons.
Continue reading “Grafting”Leveraging our imagination to create our next chapter, organizationally or personally, is not about “rainbows and unicorns.” In fact, it rarely requires trying to think up something the world has never seen before. More often, imagination is an extension or new application of something we’ve experienced in a different context.
Continue reading “Imagine What’s Real”I’m leaning into the idea of imagining being an active, collective verb rather than something that happens alone in your head.
Is there something that your possible future self might love that you could try on for size right now? Not just in your head, but in “real life”?
I’m just back from a month working remotely in a different city. A few people have asked us if we were scouting it out as a possible place to retire. Not really — but we were testing out what it felt like to:
Continue reading “Try it On for Size”