Apr 7, 2019 | Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
This is a small reprise and rewrite of an earlier piece, but with all the smart phone articles coming out, it’s worth some more thought. “Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper” John Prine famously sang in 1971. Instead of following his advice, we created...
Mar 7, 2019 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Essentialism, home, Managing Change, Resources
Are you mindful of how you spend large chunks of your time? Are you choosing how to spend your free time or is your time victim to routines, habits, or societal norms? Are you aware of habits that might be time sinks throughout your day? Are there things you do,...
Jan 7, 2019 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Essentialism, Resources, Thoughts for New Professionals
“Wow, what a ton of helpful and insightful ideas!” I exclaimed as I closed 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “Why have I not read this before?” As I read through the book journal I’ve kept over the last decade, I discovered that I had read Stephen Covey’s now...
Nov 15, 2018 | Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Developing Teams, Essentialism, Managing Change, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership, Thoughts for New Professionals
How often do you feel like you never have enough time? How often do you exclaim, “I just don’t have time for that”? How often do you spend time reading posts that start like this? Let’s be blunt: “I don’t have time for that,” is a...
Oct 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism
For the last two months I’ve been given the wonderful opportunity to pick my daughter up at school almost everyday at 12:30. At first, the schedule change seemed daunting, “could I get all my work done in a ‘split’ shift?” But working in the early morning hours and...
Aug 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack, home, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
In last month’s post, I offered a case for spending less time looking down at our phones and more time looking up and around at the world. This week, I want to offer some observation techniques or routines to practice looking up. And if you need to set an alert...
