February 4, 2022February 7, 2022Do, Leading Pause. Breathe. Look. Leap. In our drive to get things done, we often leap into action. But best practices would say, “Pause. Breathe. Look. Leap.” Do […]
October 27, 2021October 28, 2021Do, Leading, Strategy, Success How to Finish the Year Well How to have a really successful year end? Spoiler: do less, not more.
April 6, 2020April 7, 2020Do, Leading How to Prevent Burnout when Working From Home Working more hours yet have less time to get our work done. On calls, Zoom, or Teams all day. Rear end feels […]
March 23, 2020Leading Leading in Different Times #2: Reinforce Clarity This is the second in a series of Play notes about leading well during different times such as this one. “This not […]
October 2, 2018Leading Don’t Look Back The sages tell us that all our power is in the present. Any time we spend regretting, blaming, or trying to figure […]
February 28, 2017Grows, What Pursue Our Dreams? In business and life we wonder, “Should we pursue our dreams or be realistic?” Hold on! Who said these are mutually exclusive? […]
November 17, 2016February 11, 2021Do, Grows, Systems Give Yourself These Important Gifts Running around, overwhelmed, and (truth be told) only just keeping it together probably isn’t what we signed up for. But it is not […]
July 25, 2016February 11, 2021Do Three to Four Things If we choose 3-4 projects to make significant progress on this week and if we, each day, choose 3-4 things to accomplish […]
November 25, 2015Do Proper Use of Planning Planning fails when we use it to control the future. Seeking to control the future comes from a distrust or fear about […]
September 30, 2015What Why Concrete Goals are Better than Specific Goals They tell us that we should set goals that are specific. But if we shoot for ‘specific’, we may end up with […]