Shaping Your Career to Be in Demand
Next month, I'll be flying to Chicago to interview Daniel Pink on the campus of Northwestern University. I first blogged about Pink's book, A WHOLE NEW MIND, last fall, so this is a bit of a dream come true. The...
Beliefs
Another good post from Seth Godin on beliefs. Seth says: People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. This,...
Intuition vs. Analysis
I’m catching up on Seth Godin’s blog. He’s got a posting on Intuition vs. Analysis, encouraging us to trust our gut more, because that’s where great breakthroughs come from. This is something I’ve seen over and over. And while I...
More on 360Reach
I recently wrote about some of the results of using the personal branding tool, 360 Reach. What I forgot to say was that the most common attributes that people associated with me (out of more than 60 different attributes listed)...
Laundry Lessons
My 11-year old son recently returned from a week-long camp. It was his first time away from home for more than a few days and the camp had made a packing list that essentially emptied out his drawers. While I...
Question #6
Ilene answers another question about Conscious Living: What things, practices, exercises, actions can we do to approach consciousness in our daily lives? First my disclaimer, these are things I have tried and found helpful. I don’t claim they necessarily work...
How To Make a Teenage Girl Happy
Last month, my teenage nieces (ages 14, 14, and 12) were at my house for Fourth of July. Their mother was out of town and their father wanted to make their nightly call since she had been away. I offered...
Little Black Boxes
I got an iPod nano last weekend. I saved the black box it came in. I've been talking up the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND for the last nine months and this weekend, I experienced fully what it means to...