There’s a scene where Ted is talking about why he likes coaching and someone (I believe it was Trent) makes a really tense point that these athletes he’s coaching aren’t kids. They’re fully grown adults who are being paid a lot of money to do what they do. And of course, they’re not wrong. But.…
Lately, I’ve had to deal with feeling incompetent a lot of the time, and this often happens to me during transitions, but I had a particular experience today that I think might be helpful. And I want to share it, in case it is for you. I’ve been a pianist my entire life (my earliest…
We’re not playing that game anymore. Some of you really won’t like what I’m about to say because you want to think you’re so in charge of your own behavior all the time (and Godspeed to you, my friend). But the reason Strengths work as an alignment tool, or the reason Enneagram works as an…
Do you get joy pennies from planning vacations? If no, what about a vacation gives you the most joy pennies? And if yes, what part specifically gives you the pennies? I’m planning two different vacations with two different groups of people. One where we’re all high in Futuristic, and one high Context. My Context friend…
Here’s what I love about publishing. You’ll never find a group of people who want something so badly. Many of us grew up wanting to be authors or we’ve acquired a deep desire to tell stories for a living. The collective inspiration and aspiration gives me joy pennies for days. I love being around people…
I love my family, and I love all my friends. I love to travel, and I love to eat great food. And Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays (especially because so many of our family traditions center around… let’s be honest… sports). But too much of a good thing is overwhelming to me. And…
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I was giving the Vertical Platforms talk last night, describing some of the changes that were happening at the BFA, and someone made a comment about how cool it was to see us editing our business. And I thought that was the most brilliant way to describe the process of sustainability. So many of us…
Self-care is a skill set. If you’ve never heard of re-parenting before, a lot of the work in that area of psychology is focused around the concept of skill chains and the way we were not fully parented as kids. (And it’s not a “fault” on parents, because when they don’t pass skills along, it’s…
I apologize for this rant, but… The presence of an element in your story does NOT mean it CONTAINS that trope. Tropes are architectural. Just because your book has a grumpy person and a happy person does NOT mean it’s a Grumpy Sunshine trope. As much as I adore the use of tropes as a…