Being seen
The blue heron on the creek bank in Boulder, CO, was in the shadows. He was not exactly hiding, he was positioned to get what he needed – a fish. I’ve watched a heron follow a big fish for an hour trying to decide whether he could take it and never actually attempting it. This […]
The long road up
Sometimes I ask myself why I decide to take these steep hikes. I could be sitting with my feet in the stream. Or, reading a book. Yet, I wake up in the morning and think about what hike I want to take today. When they are steep like this ridge hike, I spend a certain […]
Do you have the right people in the right seats?
Do you ever feel like you don’t fit? You don’t fit this job, or this work assignment, or this shirt? The feeling is pretty common. Over time you have developed coping skills to get through those moments (and you put on a different shirt). Being uncomfortable challenges you to reassess and to grow. Over the […]
Meaningful Pursuits
Today is day three of discussing Brandon Burchard’s Primary Aspiration Theory. The enclosed drawing is a triangle with the lines of Aliveness, Deeper Connection, Meaningful Pursuits and Growth in the middle. Each week I discussed one of the sides. Today, let’s discuss meaningful pursuits. Humans are meaning makers. We interpret, understand, and make sense of […]
Aliveness
Last week I pictured Brandon Burchard’s Primary Aspiration Theory – a triangle with the lines of Aliveness, Deeper Connection, Meaningful Pursuits and Growth in the middle. I focused on the human aspiration for deeper connection. Today, let’s talk about “aliveness” which is Burchard’s foundational aspiration. He describes it as feeling joy, confidence and engagement and […]
The value of deeper connection
According to Brandon Burchard, Vistage National Speaker and author of High Performance Habits, people have 3 aspiration needs: Aliveness, Deeper Connection and Meaningful Pursuits. Since this is a holiday weekend, chances are you may see friends and family in person (IRL). You may get the chance to satisfy conscious and unconscious needs and desires without […]
Get old? No way.
For all I knew, my Grandparents were born old. They dressed formally, walked painfully and corrected me frequently. In our lifetime, healthy 70 year olds have living parents in their 90’s or older. Our current view doesn’t match the role models we grew up with. So forgive us throwing it all up in the air […]
“Thank You” Day
Thank you to all the nurturers out there, especially the Mothers. Thank you to those who saw and appreciated us for who we were, and encouraged us to keep going. Thank you to the teachers, the coaches, the scout leaders. As we got older it was our friends, our partners, our first great supervisor who […]
One smile
How does it feel to turn 98 years old? Ask my Aunt Ruth. Today is her birthday. She knew I was coming yesterday and bringing a cake to the house she has lived in since the 1950’s. My cousin LuAnne got her dressed up fancy and helped her put on some lipstick. She was sitting […]
What is required of me to be of service here?
Reviewing Brendon Burchard’s High Performing Habits with my KEY group this week, a mindshift happened in the group. Burchard had spent over a decade researching what motivates people to perform at higher levels of success. He boiled it down to 6 habits. First we reviewed what those were, then he suggested that we reframe our roles […]