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Why Play Belongs in Every Well-Lived Life
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal Post in two sentences: We carefully schedule work because we know it matters, yet we often leave play, curiosity, and renewal to chance, then wonder why they disappear. A strategically aligned life isn’t just one that protects productivity, but one that intentionally makes room for the experiences that restore the person doing the…
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To What Service Is My Soul Committed?
Today’s 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 in two sentences: 𝗪𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗯 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘂𝘀’ 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, “𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱?” 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁…
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What To Do When Your Brain Hijacks Your Day
Some days your brain hijacks the whole thing. That was today. A personal matter reached in, took the wheel, and drove off with the hours I’d meant to spend elsewhere. By the time I looked up, the day was mostly gone. Lost to total derailment. I want to be honest about it, because I think…
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How Do You Get More Likes on LinkedIn?
I have no freaking idea. Seriously. Three hundred-plus posts later, I have managed to move from getting zero likes on some posts to perhaps a fairly consistent four or five. If you’re looking for an algorithm expert, this is probably where you should stop reading. I’m not complaining though. At least, not anymore. As human…
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Does EI Affect Decision Making?
This morning I attended an Emotional Intelligence event hosted by Judy Joseph Mc Sween at Brix Hotel. The room brought together a remarkably diverse group of people, including school leaders, members of the military, clergy, professionals from law, banking, and information technology, business owners, consultants, and individuals whose work is centred on caring for families…
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Principles of the Unreasonable: 7 Traits of Top Innovators
Innovation has always had a public relations problem. After something works, we romanticize it. We tell neat stories about visionary founders and breakthrough moments and pretend the path was logical all along. Yet while those same innovators were in the thick of trying to build something new, the world rarely called them brilliant. More often…
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How to Reclaim your Muchness
You used to be much muchier. You’ve lost your muchness. I came across this quote recently where the person posting said that every time she feels the need to apologize for being too much, she remembers that this is what the Mad Hatter told Alice. I naturally assumed it belonged to Lewis Carroll’s 19th-century Alice’s…
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How to Manage the Psyche’s Storm
There are moments when our inner mental weather turns violent. The psyche begins to churn. One minute, we’re clear and certain. The next, we’re wrestling with the storm: condemning ourselves for mistakes, defending our worth, doubting our ability, clinging to faith that flickers like a candle in the wind, and sometimes extinguishing under the weight…
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Are You Spending Your Days and Wasting Your Precious Time Doing Pseudo-Work?
“He’s not doing work…he’s doing the pretense of work.” This was the comment made by a visiting consultant after observing a then colleague of mine. The guy under scrutiny always looked busy, talked a good talk but accomplished very little. Pseudo-work – the illusion of actual work; to the untrained eye it looks as if…
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Do You Have a Daily THINKING Time?
One of the books that I’m reading now is ‘The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth’ by John C. Maxwell. He promises that if we LIVE these laws we will reach our potential. It is therefore not just a book to be read through but one where you must find time to contemplate the ideas offered,…
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