It’s not always the formal “learning opportunities” that inspire us the most. I went to an interesting workshop on Thursday: Lead with Influence: Training Our Talent. It was helpful in the way it motivated us to try to figure how how to change behavior by getting to the motivations behind people’s choices. Ironically, however, a […]
Five Minute Friday: DONE
Today’s prompt: DONE Although I am not able to run right now, my social world is still FULL of runners and triathletes. These are relationships built over years … of Thursday night trail runs, Tuesday night intervals, and countless Saturdays toeing the line at races (then relaxing together afterward. Something that comes along with hanging […]
Don’t Overthink. Improvise.
Do any of you have an “overthinking” problem? I’m pretty sure “stop overthinking” would be one of the main pieces of advice a life coach would give me. After all, I created an entire channel devoted to overthinking “for all that stuff spilling out of our heads (and hearts) because we can’t turn our brains […]
Five Minute Friday: VACATION
Today’s prompt: VACATION My Facebook scrolling (and most other social media) is full right now …. …..of what OTHER people are doing on vacation. Europe seems to be especially big this summer, with New York City (my favorite!) not far behind. Oh, and the beach. Honestly I struggle with the generosity of spirit required to […]
What Tallahassee Trail?
Our President referred to the “Tallahassee Trail” recently, apparently an erroneous attempt to discuss the Appalachian Trail (at the 0:20 mark in the video below). My knowledge of hiking the AT is confined to what I have read in AWOL on the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, […]
Five Minute Friday: IF
Note: While this runs completely counter to the point of Five Minute Friday and having a prompt, I am inserting two pictures that I plan to work into this week’s prompt before the prompt is revealed. There’s a particular thread I need to pull in my life and writing right now, so here’s hoping the […]