New versus editing
You don’t have to always create something new. You can also edit what’s there and make it better. This is a reminder specifically for my whole life. Not everything has to be new or novel. Or “created from scratch.” It’s actually easier to take what you already have and make it 10x better. It’s a…
Care, Cultivate, Connect
Chris Brogan’s three word exercise is really fantastic framework for thinking about the values you bring or emphasize in the Beas year. It’s great for all of life and also segments and parts. At Post Status, we’ve got our community three words: Give, Grow, Together. Here are my personal three words for 2022: Care —…
Burnout
The last two months have been nonstop with lots of challenges to work through and included three straight weeks of biz travel (four trips). In the last two weeks I hit a huge wall. Wanted nothing to do with work or a computer. I know I’ve been burned out before. I know I’ve hit walls…
To Flourishing in 2022
This morning I’ve been starting to dream about 2022 and what I want to make of it in the key areas of my life. And that led me to Zig Ziglars classic Success for Dummies which has a wheel of life assessment. Then I rediscovered the Flourishing Assessment. I self-scored a 68 but the exercise…
Fitting everything into neat little boxes
In my mind, I love to have everything fit into nice neat little buckets and categories. Everything to sync and snap on a sleek grid. Flow charts that capture everything in the system. Mindmaps with striking clarity. Everything under its category. When I doodle I even doodle with boxes, with X’s and O’s and triangles…
Down the mountain
We don’t tell the stories down the mountain … we only tell the ones going up to glory. We glamorize the ascent not the descent. Inflation not deflation. Launch and but the glide down. But what comes after the pinnacle, summiting? To the moon. But what about not just the ride back to earth but…
The change grip
Change is about loosening your grip enough in order to readjust it. It can feel frightening if you think the grip is to a rope suspended high above. That’s the ego distortion.
Picking female role models
Been working on changing the default settings and here’s one …. Switching all my role models (real, perceived, historical, fictional) to female first. And it’s opened up so deeper, fuller thoughts in such a good positive way. My first one that immediately came to mind … Rey Skywalker. Fierce, focused, dedicated, bold
This is normal
Wish I had someone like a genie or myself from the future to keep saying and reminding me of this: This is normal. Most people go through this. Everything is going to be OK. This is another version of Everybody Hurts.
Moving my next chapter office
Three years ago I rented a little “dorm room” sized office for my next chapter home. It was $200 a month. I paid more for internet. And this pic above was me taking a next step into this chapter of my life. This week I’m moving out. I don’t take time typically to mark events…