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Office Ah Ha!

What is right under your nose? What are you overlooking? What does it take to open your eyes to it? Looking at the world with beginners eyes sounds easy and is a lifelong pursuit. There are things...

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Prototype Yourself

What do you do? What are you as a minimal viable product? How can you get that across in 30 seconds? In 3 minutes? In 30 minutes? Personal branding has been a buzzy topic for several years now. As you...

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Blog NOW!

When you have an idea what do you do? Where do you start? Why do you stop? Bias toward action is a key principle of design thinking. You need to DO not THINK to be a design thinker. Step 1: For...

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Even the best laid plans will change

Do you plan or fly by the seat of your pants? What happens when the plans go wrong? Are you prepared for the unexpected? “plans are useless but planning is indispensable” said, Dwight D. Eisenhower...

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Who *will* let the dogs out?

Who will let the dogs out? When things fail – what do you focus on? Whose fault is it? What did I learn? Where do I go from here? I woke up in my retreat rental on Lanakai beach in Kailua Hawaii and...

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Live Intentionally

Where do you accept the defaults? When do you get to decide how life goes? Why take life as it’s handed to you when you can make it what you want? Life happens. It is always moving along, moving...

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Baby Steps to Run

What is the minimum you can get away with starting? Where are you trying to start by boiling the ocean? What can you do that is the littlest step forward? This week I met up with my family for a...

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Don’t stop one step from success

How far are you from success? How many times have you failed? What keeps you going?   This photo was a facebook meme by @douglaskarr.   Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close...

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Life Work Balance

Do you keep work life and personal life distinct? Do you struggle with the boundaries? Can you reframe it? In his article Successfully Integrate Your Work Life, Stew Friedman reframes the definition...

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Experimental Life

How do you change? What would you change if you could? If you changed one thing, what else would change with it? In his article Successfully Integrate Your Work Life, Stew Friedman looks at...

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