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You Can’t Solve Spherical Problems with Flat Thinking
You can’t solve spherical problems with flat thinking…and yet, so much of leadership, decision-making, and strategy still operates as if reality will eventually cooperate if we just simplify it enough. Straight lines. Clean answers. Either/or choices. The problem is that many of the situations we’re navigating now…in organizations, in systems, in our own lives…aren’t flat…
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Routine can be a double-edged sword
On the one hand, it creates rhythm… steadiness… trust with yourself. It’s how things get done when motivation dwindles. It’s how we move forward without renegotiating every decision from scratch. Routine builds muscle memory for progress. But when routine goes unquestioned… What once supported momentum can quietly become a blindfold. You keep doing the thing…
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What Have You Got to Lose?
I got The Book of Alchemy for Christmas by Suleika Jaouad. It’s not a journal in the trendy, habit-stacking sense. It’s quieter than that. More deliberate…built around the idea of writing not as output, but as a way of staying in relationship with yourself when certainty thins out…when confidence feels unearned…when you’re standing at the…
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Decluttering isn’t about letting go, it’s about getting clear
In 2025, decluttering has quietly shifted from being about cleaning up to something far more consequential: alignment. Not just of space, but of energy, values, and direction. It’s no longer about having less for the sake of minimalism, but about intentionally curating what remains so your environment actually reflects who you are now and where…
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Are You Addicted to Work?
I’ve always been curious about addiction. The way I tend to look at most things in my life, I’ve wondered why some people get so deeply hooked… whether it’s food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, hoarding, smoking, or porn. What is it that pulls someone past moderation and into dependency? Over the years, that curiosity hasn’t been…
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He saved babies’ lives while being paid as a janitor.
Vivien Thomas aspired to become a doctor and demonstrated the intellectual capacity, discipline, and aptitude required for medical training. He saved every dollar from his carpenter job, toward medical school, certain he was building a future with his own hands. Then the stock market crashed. This was 1929 and the Great Depression that followed, didn’t…
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When Staying With the Question Matters More than the Path
Joseph Campbell was a scholar of mythology, religion, and literature, best known for articulating what later came to be called the hero’s journey — the underlying narrative pattern shared across myths, religions, and modern stories across cultures and centuries. His work went on to influence writers, filmmakers, and artists in ways most people now absorb…
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When Completion is Necessary Before any Plan
I came across this story in The Washington Post and wanted to share it immediately, not because it’s inspirational in the tidy, motivational sense, but because it quietly exposes how much of what we think are “rules” are really just expectations we’ve been trained to accept. We’ve been taught to expect outcomes to follow a…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 