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Being an adult
As someone who is still very much on the path to adulthood (and who still feels pretty far away from that at times), I appreciated getting a bit of a trail guide from a recent Q&A with legendary professional coach Jerry Colonna.
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Rebegin
Just like yesterday’s thought that you should keep all your passions and that consistency is best held lightly, here’s another one I’m reposting from Lucian James’ 24th Kō Strategy: The natural world is always changing, always in process. And so are you. You are not a thing, you are a process, a magnificent kind of…
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Ask someone about their craft
This is so simple and so powerful. Any managers out there want to understand what motivates their employees? Want a surefire way to get a glimpse into a person’s values? Ask them a “craft question”.
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How to approach a very big meeting or conference
I’m lucky to be traveling to a big work meet-up (aka company offsite) next week, however, it’s easy for me to be unfocused at large events like this. Too many people and too many choices. I tend to come away not knowing what I got out of it. This time around, I’m going to try…
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Do you have a user guide for you?
Maybe you should? “A User Guide for a Person creates clarity on how you work—what you value, how you look at problems, what your blind spots or areas of growth are, and how to build trust with you.”
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Family-friendly work
I started reading Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves, and, as a man and a father who recently went part-time so that my wife could go to work full-time, there is a lot here that resonates, especially so the discussion around balancing work and family.
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Energy makes time
I’m a big believer that being a little selfish is a prerequisite to being able to be selfless. In other words, you need to take care of yourself in order to take care of others.
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Sensitive antennae
In the excellent book Unreasonable Hospitality, there is a chapter about managing relationships called “Relationships are simple. Simple is hard.” I saw the title of this chapter and jumped to it right away. 😃 So often, we confuse things by saying something is complicated when it’s really just hard.
