Designing Clarity for Visionary Leadership & Livable Success
THE BOLD (Whence Cometh My Strength): Sometimes, a little patch of the familiar–like an 8 foot square of east coast grass plunked into a western landscape–can provide welcome relief. Enjoy the familiar without letting it derail your progress toward your desired future. Let the green, green grass of home strengthen your resolve and sooth your heart, but don’t …
THE BOLD (Change In Service to What?): Before and after can be addicting. How do we let our passion for the newly arranged, the freshly painted, the revised and the improved fuel meaningful change? How do we make sure that we will want to live in our afters? The Whisper (Movement, Change, and Direction): I …
…you think you aren’t one. THE BOLD (Give it, and Yourself, a Rest): For many of us, the very characteristic we secretly nurture is the very characteristic that keeps us from enjoying the order, control, progress, and prestige we crave. Perfectionism is a seductive poison. The Whisper (Perfectionism is Far from Perfect): If you conducted …
THE BOLD (From Treadmill to Tremendous): Yesterday, we discussed the difference between being busy, churning on a treadmill of meaningless activity and being beneficial by making choices that matter. So how do you know what matters? The Whisper (A Different Way to Work): The designer William Morris (think leafy Arts and Crafts wallpaper that hangs …
THE BOLD (Busy, Busy, Busy): Your friend asks you, “How have you been?” and you immediately reply, “Busy.” What your friend (usually) doesn’t ask is, “Busy doing what?” Perhaps your friend should ask you that. The Whisper: (Everyone is Busy, So What Are We Pretending Not To See?): “But,” said the little boy, unaware that …
