Getting out of your head and into the world to get your creative juices flowing

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Taking a shower Going for a long drive Doing mundane tasks, like the dishes Exercising Being outside Falling asleep What do these things have in common?  They are all activities that get us away from our work and into a space where ideas have a chance to make an appearance.  And when that happens, the [...]

Lights, camera, action: setting the stage to reach your goals

Action Opossum with camera

Last week, I had the unique opportunity to play an evil villain in a friend’s super hero short movie.  Aside from the fact that it was fun to step into the shoes of a character so unlike myself, I had the opportunity to see first-hand what goes into the direction and filming of a movie [...]

Letting you in on a secret: I’m leading a double life

Lucy - Secondary Computer User

It all started when the thief of time got in my way. A couple of months ago, sitting alone in my car waiting for an appointment, I listened to the radio and heard something that caused me to take action against two long-standing enemies: procrastination and distraction. Piers Steel, author of the book The Procrastination [...]

Developing SMART goals, because who doesn’t love feeling smart?

Goals- whats your destination

My parents were both planners, and so the practice of setting goals was something we did as a family and that they asked my brothers and me to do at the start of each summer when there were no schedules, assignments, or teachers to dictate how we spent our time.  They wanted us to develop [...]

How Setting Goals is Like Splitting Bananas

bananas are like goal setting

  Please forgive the analogy.  But it’s true.  Just give me a chance to explain. Years ago, I learned that you can split a banana into three distinct, but similar, segments by carefully running  a chopstick or finger down the center.  I don’t remember how I learned that bananas did this, but once I discovered [...]