Recently I read the book, Switchers by Dawn Graham. (Read my book review here ). There was lots to like but I can’t get her reference to ‘micro-networking’ out of my head…so I’m going to share it here with you 🙂 I will do this sometimes when I have a song in my head and […]
Why I Write: And Why You Might Want To
Recently, I went on another tech-free retreat for the day which I try to do monthly. It is a time to think, read, plan, do walking meditation, and to write. I mind-mapped out five new blogs (one of them is this one). Last week I was working with a student in my Facilitating Career Development […]
Teaching Online is Here to Stay
Covid-19 forced us to move online for our workshops, classes, networking, trainings, and more. I don’t see this move going away. I have been teaching online since 2003, mostly as a hybrid, but also with my asynchronous 5-week seminars since 2010. My career coaching has been 95% through Zoom for at least five years now. […]
3 Words to Guide Me in 2021
Since 2016, I have chosen 3 words to guide me through the year, rather than doing a New Year’s resolution. I find the words somehow lead me to new ideas and actions. Often they are reinforcing thoughts important to me, but there is real power in “sending the message out to the universe.” I distinctly […]
Improve Your Deeper Thinking
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Cal Newport. How do you improve your deeper thinking? Cal Newport wrote about the importance of deeper thinking in his book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. We live in a world filled with YouTube videos, Facebook, […]
How to get better at deeper thinking.
What are some ways you can train yourself to do deeper thinking? Why is this so important? I believe we are all a bit like a golden retriever in a room with four tennis balls bouncing around. We chase emails. We click on five different social media platforms. We send and receive text messages. We […]