My friend Alex Hagan is fun and quirky and brilliant. I wish we lived closer together. And today, I would rather you read what he’s writing than what I’m writing. Here are a few nuggets from a recent post of his:
“A scenario isn’t a prediction, but rather a plausible piece of fiction…[and] even a plausible fiction about the future can profoundly shape your choices right here and right now.”
Continue reading “My Imagination Pit Crew”In this fourth part of our five-week series on navigating transitions I’m calling Be a Taker, I’m offering a series of tools to help you Take Action. Action is motivating, and when we are feeling untethered by change, having a few simple things to try doing can be really helpful. Here you go!
Continue reading “Take Action”“We cannot create what we can’t imagine.” ~ Lucille Clifton
Writing a new year’s post on January 6 seems fitting this year, as I’m easing into 2025 rather than running headlong into it.
I would normally be writing about my guiding word of the year (it’s “rooted”), but honestly, my 2024 word didn’t stick at all, to the point I needed to refer back to last year’s early January blog post to remember what it even was (“expansive” that kept autocorrecting to “expensive” — both were true)!
Continue reading “Imagination over Resolution”When I was in tenth grade, I attended a leadership camp where we played a game called “Win As Much As You Can.” I love games, and I still remember this one because it had a punchline (spoiler alert): the meaning of “you” was ambiguous — was it intended to be understood as plural or singular? Your interpretation would affect how you played the game and what you understood as a win.
Continue reading “Know the Game You’re Playing”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”
