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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.

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)

Uncover Your Story and Drive Your Brand: The Power of a Mission
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Uncover Your Story and Drive Your Brand: The Power of a Mission

Think about your favorite brands. What do you like about them? A brand is more than just a logo or a website. When you walk into your favorite store(s) or when you engage or collaborate with a company you love, you usually walk away with this feeling of satisfaction, excitement, wonder. Creating a memorable, impactful…

Why DIY is a Lie for Entrepreneurs & Creatives
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Why DIY is a Lie for Entrepreneurs & Creatives

Now perhaps more than ever creatives & entrepreneurs have access to more knowledge, resources, and apps that empower us to take things into our own hands. But it’s also where we often get trapped. Maybe we think that because we can kind of sort of figure things out on our own that we should do it on…

Marketing and Thought Leadership
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Marketing and Thought Leadership

Marketing matters to anyone wishing to build a business, advance a career, or become a viable author or thought leader. You know that. But in the wrong doses and with the wrong timing, marketing can kill creativity, thwart innovation, and stall the very professional growth necessary for long-term or next-term success. Ironically, too much reliance…