Designing Clarity for Visionary Leadership & Livable Success
The BOLD (I Feel You) Our emotions are always present. We are told that we need to leave our emotions at the door in order to be professional. The vast majority of us have a habit of apologizing when we cry or show a depth of emotion in a public setting. The reality is that our emotions …
The BOLD (Can You Hear the Cicadas?) August has arrived in all its steamy splendor. Do you remember the Augusts of your childhood? In the summer, I found myself in perpetual motion, running in the heat and chasing the cool. We spent a lot of time out in the grass of our big backyard. In the morning, we could …
The BOLD (What’s Enough) Insufficiency. Not Enough. Imposter syndrome. There is a little voice that follows us about questioning our fitness for the task at hand, our eligibility for success, our right to the awards we’ve earned. It is a particularly insidious form of resistance. The voice tells us stories and the first story is, “You can’t tell anyone you …
The BOLD (In the Moment With You) In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the physical, mindful and self-investment practices that support out choices in the moment between stimulus and response—the only real place where choice is possible. Last week, in Part 2, we looked at the Clarity Design Cycle™ and the Prospects of …
The BOLD (By Design) I’m excited about this topic, which is part two in a three part series about preparing for the unexpected. We are going to explore designing clarity—setting ourselves up for success by building capacity before the surprise arrives so that we can make a different choice in the space between stimulus and response. …
The BOLD (It starts with the stimulus) Today, we start a three-part series—Prepare for the Unexpected. As Viktor Frankel asserted in the quote above, we have only one place to make a choice and that is the space between the arrival of a stimulus and the execution of our response. For the next three weeks, we will …
The BOLD (Small to Go Big) The Tiny House movement is revolutionizing how we think about house, home, and lifestyle. Life in a 12x12x12 cube demands a certain level of clarity and determination. It also enables a clear path to experiences and achievements obscured behind housework and clutter in bigger spaces. It is not for …
The BOLD (Recapture the Joy) Our culture values learning and invests in education and learning. Companies provide training. Schools deliver education experiences. We seem to understand that learning is essential for growth and maturation and that education is the key to advancement and attainment. Once we leave school, however, most of us have a haphazard relationship with learning. Today, …
The BOLD (An End Run Around Your Brain) A casual encounter with a carefully laid trap by the Virginia Lottery led me to think about the real power of daydreams. If you want to know what your brain is protecting you from dreaming about, unleash your mind to daydream. Then start planning. Today, an exercise …
