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Get past the resistance to write for impact
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Get past the resistance to write for impact

Many clients – leaders, startup founders, business owners, authors – express what I would call a Wise Rise. Maybe you can relate. You’re deeply committed to meeting the challenges necessary to grow people’s awareness of your unique point of view, services, or products so you can elevate them (rise) but with a more mindful expenditure of time, energy, resources, and pacing (wise).

Canoe Talk 7: The Wonder of Your Point of View

Canoe Talk 7: The Wonder of Your Point of View

Have you ever questioned whether your voice and business can truly make a difference? Perhaps you’ve felt overwhelmed by the state of the world, thinking that your contributions are insignificant. In a world on fire, it’s easy to feel like just another voice lost in the noise. But here’s the truth: whether you’re a leader, a professional, a startup founder, or a creative individual, you possess the ability to ignite change in this new world of work by embracing the authority of your unique point of view. Let’s shift our perspective together.

Marginalized Voices Amplified: Workplace Diversity
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Marginalized Voices Amplified: Workplace Diversity

Collaboration is an essential part of any business. You and your team must come together to solve problems and implement creative solutions, but maybe you’re not getting the desired results. One person might contribute all the ideas while others stay silent or your group keeps coming up with the same proposals that don’t yield new results.

How Business Leaders Find Hope
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How Business Leaders Find Hope

Despite the world’s weight these days, we human beings by necessity must dream better ways to live and work, lead, and play into reality. We can rise wisely and together.

Today let’s seek trends for hope that lead to the need for you and me to dream of a new 2023 story sooner than later.

Three (3) Productivity Books for Advancing Big Ideas
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Three (3) Productivity Books for Advancing Big Ideas

To build your business with your ideas requires more than inspiration. It also requires less thrilling things such as systems, habits, and boundaries.

In my ongoing work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and creatives, I’m always on the look out for resources to help them leverage their ideas into lasting influence.

These three books I’ve found illuminating and complementary to what we do at Tracking Wonder:

How To Begin by Michael Bungay Stanier (Page Two) MBS.works

Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done by Charlie Gilkey (Sounds True) Charlie Gilkey

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Grand Central Publishing)

Our Current Culture is Choking Out Creativity
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Our Current Culture is Choking Out Creativity

With how much innovation and development occur in 21st-century society, it’s easy to assume that creativity follows a similarly meteoric rise. Virtual reality video games. Fusion Cuisine, combining the practices of disparate cultures. Barrier-breaking performance art. All of these experiences take a high level of creativity to conceptualize and see through from the design process…

10 Lessons I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Tracking Wonder
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10 Lessons I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Tracking Wonder

When I became a father, one October morning I looked into my first infant girl’s sky-wide blue eyes and made a silent two-fold vow: I would learn from her the art of not-knowing, and I would live a life so rich with creativity and wonder that she would want to become a “grown up.” That…