Here’s the latest in my summer 2024 compilation series. Read on for three uplifting images, a quick video, three motivating quotes, and a tool for generating your own pep talk. Plus, find out how this connects to cute puppies.
Active Listening 102: 13 Ways to Improve Communication
In honor of Taylor Swift, first in my 2024 compilation series is a thirteen-part backstage tour of my lifetime quest to become a better listener. This is NOT a quick read. Rather, it’s a deep dive (hence 102, not 101) into definitions, technique and challenges. Read on for at least seven good quotes, a few different ways to frame the task, plus varied approaches, four styles, smart tips for leaders, and lastly a super-detailed and geeky listening self-assessment.
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How to interact meaningfully with discomfort: A (video) Tale of Whale Eyes by James Robinson
Go watch James Robinson’s exquisite video: How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’. Read on for my 24(!) favorite lines in which Robinson takes a complex, uncomfortable and challenging situation (how being made to feel different feels lousy), and made it simple, accessible and relatable.
Grief Rejection Resilience: A Mash-Up
Fifth in my 2021 summer compilation series is a three-way mash-up of grief, rejection and resilience. Read on for four inspiring images, two poems, three quotes plus links to one essay and one memorable rejection video. (And of course can’t type anything on this topic without including a link to my all-time fave poem: “What to do in the Darkness.”)
Kintsugi and at least 33 other ways to reframe "failure"
How to take a vacation (and actually do it)
A compilation of five starred articles about how to take a vacation….and actually do it. if you’re in a rush, here are the key points. (1) How to leave the office (make a plan, and then stick to it); (2) How to come back from vacation (allow time to transition); and (3) Why vacation matters (hold space for yourself).
Nicki Roth's Path Back to Sanity: Take Personal Responsibility to Get Right.
I loved Nicki Roth’s most recent post, titled “The Year We All Went Crazy,” and thus wanted to share it around. Read on for a few of my favorite excerpts from her reflections on how we might make sense of the insanity of humanity during this year of isolation and loss.