Designing Clarity for Visionary Leadership & Livable Success
The BOLD (Fear Rules) We love inspirational quotes. Scan your social feeds and you’ll find them peeking out like garnets in gneiss, peppering the landscape. One quote changed my life. Eleanor Roosevelt’s encapsulated wisdom (quoted above) changed my perspective, impacted my behavior and shifted my outcomes. One quote changed my life because I decided to live it. …
The BOLD (How Brave) You witness a great feat of courage—a skydiver plummeting from a plane, a parent shopping at the grocery store will all 9 kids in tow, a business owner making a pitch, the CEO addressing the board—and you feel a double shot of emotion. It is one part admiration, one part self-conscious comparison. …
The BOLD (Thank You In Advance) Happy Thanksgiving (holiday laden with turkey and stuffing) to those in the United States. Happy thanks-giving (action of delivering thanks where they are due) to everyone everywhere. I am grateful for you, gentle reader. This is the 26th week in a row that this inbox magazine has greeted you. That is 6 months …
The BOLD (Wait, Wait…Say That Again) A recent experience has me thinking about the role of scripted and impromptu communication in our lives. Sometimes we have the luxury of preparation. Sometimes, we must flow in the moment and rally our words to serve an opportunity that, once past, will not come again. How can we prepare to communicate …
The BOLD (Mood Indigo..or chartreuse, or royal blue) “I’m in a mood.” What is a mood, really? How do we differentiate a mood from an emotion? A mood is an emotional state and an emotion is a response. And both moods and emotions influence our actions–they are our action engines. If we are to take responsibility for our emotions, …
The BOLD (Thanks for Thanksgiving) November is the month for Thanksgiving. I love that our holidays line up gratitude before giving and receiving. Anticipating good things with a heart light with gratitude nourishes joy. I wish you joy. The Whisper (Love of Life) My fingers were scrambling to move the pen fast enough to catch all the …
The Bold (Any Way You Slice It) How often have you heard that the only way forward is to eliminate limiting beliefs? I heard a speaker recently who said that we have a war on time. The problem with declaring war on our behavior, our attitudes and our resources is that, since those things are ours, …
The BOLD (Good Habits Gone Bad) We continue our October theme of Pierce the Transparency™. In order to grow, develop and activate transformation, we must prepare to be open, give permission for learning and figure out how to see what we don’t know we don’t know. Habits serve us. They make it possible for us to save …
The BOLD (Everybody Off the Bus) We’re going to try something a little different this week. It is a week for different things. When you receive this, I will be waking up to the first full day of a retreat that I’m attending. I participate in two retreats–full disconnect events with structure and company or all …
