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To Do, Or Not To Do
Before we dive in today, I would like to express my gratitude and make a request. I am incredibly grateful for all your support. I appreciate how many of you have shared that you read this blog weekly and find my insights valuable. Last week the blog reached a milestone with its 1,000th LinkedIn subscriber.…
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Carpe Septimana
Last week we discussed building a daily planning ritual to make the most of every day. The other planning ritual I love is the weekly review. Why The strength of the daily planning ritual is that it becomes a reliable way to build habits. Knowing it will occur, you can count on certain things happening daily as…
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Carpe Diem
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle At the end of the day, do you feel energized by everything you accomplished? Or do you wonder where the time went? Aristotle believed a good life is one where you devote yourself to areté (translated as virtue, excellence, or fulfillment)…
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It’s Called Breakfast for a Reason
Growing up, I was more of a math & science person than a language person. So I tended not to notice things like the word breakfast being the combination of break and fast – literally meaning to break the evening’s fast. Breaking Your Fast When you have breakfast in the morning, do you feel like you are breaking your fast? For…
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Top Ten Blog Posts of 2022
I’m taking a break this week to celebrate the holidays and recharge. Here are my top ten most-viewed blog posts of the year. 10. The Best Technology Available My pursuit of running the Boston Marathon and recognizing when I needed to open up my mind to new possibilities and embrace the “Super Shoes.” 9. Please Shorten Your…
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All You Need Is Love
Many of us are in the midst of holiday preparations and celebrations. Hopefully, you have time now or in the coming weeks to rest, renew, and recharge. Today I’m leaning into courageous authenticity and practicing vulnerability with a post out of my comfort zone because this feels like the right time to write it. For…
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Gooooooooooooooooooooooals!
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.” – Yogi Berra. Did you set goals for 2022? Were they written down? How often did you review your progress and implement course corrections? How effectively did those goals guide your progress this year? The Importance of Goals Many of us have goals…
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Promises, Promises
Leaders get their job done through language. We have spent the past few weeks examining a set of language distinctions called speech acts. We are more effective leaders and humans when we master these distinctions: Today we’ll cover one final distinction – promises (commitments). We waste time and energy when we fail to manage promises…
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I Do Declare
Last week we talked about speech acts and learned the distinctions between assertions (facts) and assessments (stories). In his book, Language and the Pursuit of Happiness, Chalmers Brothers points out that with assertions, first comes the world, and then comes the word. We use language to describe the world. With declarations, the word comes first. Through our declarations,…
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Just The Facts
One key learning from my ontological coaching training is a set of distinctions called Speech Acts. These were introduced by philosopher John Searles and expanded by individuals, including Humberto Maturana and Fernando Flores. The speech acts outline a set of daily constructs we use in language, including assertions, assessments, declarations, requests, offers, and promises. Language is one…
