2017 marks our 8th year of choosing a Word of the Year. We do that instead of resolutions or other ways to mark the beginning of a new year. Our “Word of the Year” is a focus point, a rallying cry, a commitment, a guide, a prayer. And it’s an interesting marker to look back […]
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Everyone gets stuck at some point. You can’t figure out how to proceed. You’re not sure how to solve a problem. You’re overwhelmed with too much to do . . . and then everything seems most important and nothing seems most important. Or there’s this one thing that’s not working. If only you could get
You’ve enjoyed about 7% of 2016 so far. How’s 2016 going for you? Are you a New Year’s Resolution person? Are you a New Year’s Resolution KEEPING person? I’d love to know what you resolved to do and if you’re still on track (it’s shocking how fast our intentions evaporate in contact with day-to-day reality).
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The 2015 Oneicity word of the year is “Dream.” Dictionary.com has this as the #6 definition: an aspiration; goal; aim. We have aspirations and goals and aims. But. We want to think about “dream” as bigger than that. Walt Disney is quoted as saying: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” I’ve become
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I bet you’re like me. You struggle to get the right things done. Oh, we’re busy and we’re “productive” in terms of knocking things off our To-Do lists. But it’s depressing to look back on a busy day and realize that you didn’t get done the most important work. For me, the work that I
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I stopped reading “leadership” books last year because I realized that I didn’t need to learn anything new. I needed to actually do more of what I’d already learned. I’ll go back to books on leadership eventually, but for now I’m enjoying the freedom not to read more on leadership. Understand, it’s not that I
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Last week Hoots took me to a Roger Daltrey concert. I didn’t really know much about what to expect except that Daltrey was connected to The Who and I knew two songs from Tommy. Until she showed me the tickets, I had been pretty sure Daltrey was dead. Dead he isn’t. It was a great
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Two people who changed the world died within days of each other last week. One you know, the other you don’t. Both lost valiant battles with pancreatic cancer. Both died at nearly the same age and far too young (at least from where I’m sitting now they died too young). Both were about changing the
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FastCompany ran an interesting post last week about Steve Jobs. Because Jobs announced that he’s stepping down from his post at Apple, there have been a flurry of posts on Jobs’ impact on Apple, technology, design and even the world. I thought FastCompany’s take was perfect, people reflecting on their first meeting with this iconic
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