“I want to dance more.”
One of the activities we enjoyed during the “Reimagine your Story” retreat I ran in southern France last week was to write down 100 things you want.
Continue reading “100 Specific Wants”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.
Continue reading “Change of Scenery”Fill in Your Blank
“I want to be surrounded by people who make me more .”
How might you finish that sentence?
Fun? Caring? Effective? Wise? Brave?
What provocative conversation would those finished sentences initiate in your organization if you dared to ask?
Continue reading “Fill in Your Blank”In Wendell Berry’s Honour
When I was working on my PhD in Rural Studies in Guelph, Ontario at the turn of this century, Wendell Berry was a beacon of light in the dark stacks of the library. (Don’t I sound ancient?!)
Anytime I came across his work in the rabbit trails of my research, I could feel my shoulders dropping — he was reliably calm, sensible and hopeful when many others weren’t.
Continue reading “In Wendell Berry’s Honour”Make the Implicit Explicit
Recently, my niece got angry at her younger sister for interrupting her. Except that she hadn’t been talking at the time. At least not out loud.
“She interrupted the story I was telling in my head!”
Not much I can do about that one.
Or is there?
Continue reading “Make the Implicit Explicit”