I subscribe to a number of email lists & podcasts that focus on growth & change. One that I really enjoy is the Reboot.io podcast, from a company that embraces, encourages and helps to foster change & healthy behaviours to support that change in companies. The most recent email I received from them has the …
Challenge Your Status Quo
It’s easy to recognize some of the stressful events in our lives - they are big & brash and can stop you in your tracks. However, it’s the really quiet inconspicuous events that we hardly notice that can have some of the biggest impacts over time. Recently, I’ve been trying to understand a bit better …
Stress as the Threshold to Creativity
Stress is a necessary part of life and something that has helped us to survive & thrive over our evolution. As I’ve written about before, the challenge with stress in modern times is that our conditioned & learned responses to stress often don’t match the perceived threat that we’re experiencing. And we often resort to …
Don’t Trust Your First Draft
In my previous article, I mentioned that I was re-reading Brené Brown’s book, "Dare to Lead". I do highly recommend this book if you haven’t already read it. In that article, I referenced the term she used for how we sometimes prepare for our interactions with others - by putting on armour. In her book, …
