Designing Clarity for Visionary Leadership & Livable Success
The BOLD (Quick, the Bus Is Coming) I know this seems improbable as you rush between air-conditioned havens but September is coming. It’s almost Back to School season. In all likelihood, you spent a dozen years or more of your life preparing for Back to School. Was it a time of anticipation or dread for you? Either way, the …
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 (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 (Cultivate and Expectation of Good Things) It happens. An obstacle arrives. A disappointing outcome follows our efforts. How we approach such challenges has a lot to do with what we expect the results will be. By adopting a “Yes, and…” attitude and by assuming that things will probably work in our favor, we …
The BOLD (How Much?) Are you learning what you set out to learn or are you learning all there is to learn? The Whisper (That Much, eh?) The bus pulled up in the bus loop facing the shiny aquarium and Mr. Berkshire signaled to the students in an attempt to focus their buzzing excitement on …
THE BOLD: (Breakdown Ahead) A breakdown is an interruption of your patterns, habits or expectations. Sometimes they come unbidden. Sometimes we provoke them ourselves. While they can be disruptive, they invite renovation, reformation, and renewal. Our choices are limited but powerful in the face of breakdowns—we can choose a project before an accident happens, we …
THE BOLD (Missing What We’re Missing): You don’t know what you’re missing. That’s because you are missing it. It isn’t until you build your capacity, heal your wounds, develop a new skill or shift your perspective that the missing things are found. What aren’t you hearing right now? I don’t know and neither do you. …
THE BOLD (an End to Limited Limitation): Until you bump into the wall, you don’t have a wall. Until you push yourself past what is possible, you haven’t earned your limits. The Whisper (an Experience of the Infinite Finite) Recently, I participated in a group meditation. The facilitator drew us along a path to encounter …
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 …
