Tag: Learning

  • Press Pause to Leap with Wonder and Rigor

    Press Pause to Leap with Wonder and Rigor

    I got very little in the non-negotiable column. Everything today seems so monumentally essential and life and culture-changing that non-negotiable is not in the vocabulary for so many critical matters that must be faced and tackled assertively in our midst? I decided to start small. I decided to do one non-negotiable thing.

  • Watch the latest Food4Thought : Brene Brown on Freudenfreude

    Hey there, amazing viewers! 🌟 In today’s video, we’re diving into the wisdom of Brené Brown’s “Atlas of the Heart” to uncover a powerful lesson on leadership and personal growth. 💪 Brené reminds us of the importance of supporting and lifting each other up, rather than delighting in challenges or difficulties that our ‘nemeses’ may…

  • A quote from Seth Godin and his book Linchpin

  • A Positively Magical(?) Way to Foster Accountability

    A Positively Magical(?) Way to Foster Accountability

    We can all become “energy vampires” at times – if left unchecked. Our role as leaders is to check that tendency at every turn- both in the culture and, perhaps more importantly, in ourselves.

  • Better to share thanks like Hanks than be scary like Larry

    Food 4 Thought: I am excited to bring you some Food 4 Thought with the intent of sparking new ways to look at and approach your day, tackle the changes we are faced with in life and maximize the opportunities you have to connect and grow with one another. Today, I am inspired by another…

  • Four4Soaring Launches a Podcast

    Four4Soaring Launches a Podcast

    Hi Soarers! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I have been dabbling with recording podcast versions of the blog. The podcast can be found on multiple platforms where podcasts are available like Spotify. I am using an app called Anchor and my iPhone to create the podcasts and right now they…

  • Brene’ Browns Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto

    Brene’ Browns Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto

    I just finished reading Daring Greatly and I wanted to share the link to Brene’ Brown’s Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto. I was blown away by her final words on the subject that both summed this section up so well and were incredibly convicting personally as well. Who we are and how we engage with the world…

  • Let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm…

    Let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm…

    The poet of my youth was one Gordon Sumner, aka Sting. The first concert I ever went to was Dream of the Blue Turtles, his debut solo album. A bit odd for a kid my age as all my other friends went to the Journey, AC/DC and KISS concerts, and I loved all that music…

  • A mom for all seasons

    A mom for all seasons

    If many of you were to write a blog about your mom and titled it ” A mom for all seasons” I suspect your story might be about one special woman who showered you with unconditional love, who was your rock, your inspiration and a guiding light in your life. Still others of you might…

  • What are you choosing to take with you?

    What are you choosing to take with you?

    Do you need all that junk you are carrying around? How much of what you encounter every day is because of what you choose to take with you everywhere you go? Luke Skywalker: What’s in there? (Motioning toward a cave) Yoda: Only what you take with you. (Luke grabs his belt with lightsaber and blaster).…