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Blaming is the Opposite of Learning from Experience
We had a really interesting discussion yesterday on the article How the world’s most successful founders approach failure and my take-away message is simple, yet somewhat profound:
Blaming is the Opposite of Learning from Experience…
Article Discussion Starters for “How the World’s Most Successful Founders Approach Failure”
Here are some discussion questions to help us frame today’s article discussion on “How the world’s most successful founders approach failure”…
Article Discussion – How the World’s Most Successful Founders Approach Failure
Do you read articles, watch TED Talks, or listen to podcasts on Coaching or Personal Empowerment and wish you have others to talk with them about in real time to share insights, ideas, or experiences about them?
Here is your chance!…
Come Celebrate Wikipedia Day!
Come celebrate Wikipedia Day with me this Sunday at the Ace Hotel right here in New York City. Details about how we at Wikimedia NYC are celebrating this in a New York way can be found here (including the time of the cake!!)…
What will you do for yours?
What will you do for yours?
What Change Will You Become?
What do You Want to Learn about Yourself through Building Your Habits?
When we work toward personal goals, they often involve the development and ceaseless focus on engaging small habits that, when repeated together, help move us forward toward goal achievement…
What are Your Hidden Assumptions about Yourself?
One of the Facebook groups I started a number of years ago, Actor-Network Theory (ANT), has chugged along over the years as a communal hub for those of us interested in the theoretical and methodological aspects of actor-network theory.
I promise the geekery in this post will end in a moment . . .
Nobody Can Learn for You
In an age of immediacy and computer-driven outsourcing of work, we can send out our laundry, order in food, gift giftcards, stream movies, and even speak to our digital assistants to remind us to send flowers on holidays, there still is not a way to outsource our own learning…
Keep Focused on Your Goals!
Four days into the New Year, so how are you doing with your 2019 goals?
Doing well? Good, don’t stop! That means for this weekend — keep focusing on them and don’t let up on Saturday and Sunday!…
Article Discussion Starters (for How Great Leaders Inspire Action)
I am facilitating an article discussion today with some colleagues who are coaches and work in various helping professions, and want to share the questions we will use as starters…
A Goal-Making Framework for the New Year
Every year at this time we are invited to pursue new goals for the upcoming year — New Year, New You!
Hey, why not, given that with new things come new opportunities?…
One Day Remains in 2018, So ACT!
Today is the final day of 2018. While it is not too late to wrap up those things we planned to do in 2018, the time is quickly coming to an end…
Article Discussion – How Great Leaders Inspire Action
How often have you read an article, watched a TED Talk, or listened to a podcast on Coaching or Personal Empowerment and wished you had somebody to talk with them about? Ever want to discuss them in real time with others who may have new ideas to share or insights to offer on how they made sense of them?…
Glühwein Greetings
Wishing you and yours happy holidays and blessings as we transition from Yule and the Solstice into the New Year. May you achieve what you set out to do, rest as you need it, and prepare for new opportunities in 2019.
You have one more week this year . . .
We are in the final working week of 2018 before the holidays (Christmas, Yule, New Year’s, extended Hanukah, Festivus, etc.) so let’s go back to the beginning of 2018, shall we?
Remember those New Year’s Resolutions you came up with?…
Prioritization of Goals through Biscuits
I recently spoke about the importance of prioritizing your goals, since if you do not do it, somebody else will do it for you and likely their goals will be met instead of yours.
While some may think this works for career progress (it does) or for ongoing professional development (again, it does), it can also work like that in our personal lives, too….
Prioritize your Goals, Before Somebody Does It for You
Here we are at the start of another week, and it is once again an opportunity to prioritize our own goals. I know, I know — this is tough to do with so many other demands in my life. Email. Meetings. Appointments. Requests. Demands. Let me just wait until tomorrow when I have time…
Did you meet your goals for this week?
Did you meet your goals for this week?
Do You Schedule Time for Yourself?
I challenge you to schedule 30 minutes for yourself tomorrow and do something for your own personal development. Go on, you worth it!
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