Building Creative Resilience Amidst Challenging Times

Building Creative Resilience Amidst Challenging Times

As we navigate an era defined by rapid change, uncertainty, and global challenges, the need to cultivate resilience has never been more relevant. Economic fluctuations, technological advances, social shifts, and global crises can make daily life feel overwhelming. Amidst these turbulent times, many people find themselves asking: “How can I stay grounded and move forward?” “How can I overcome these obstacles and thrive?” These questions point to the need for a particular type of resilience, one that not only helps us recover from adversity but also enables us to adapt, innovate, and grow.

The Wonder of You

The Wonder of You

When advising business leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners, I often steer them away from massive social media investments. If you’re familiar with my work at Tracking Wonder, you know I’m not “anti-social media.” Certain platforms hold specific value for particular brands and purposes. The key is discernment and agency.

To Change the Future, Imagine and Make It

To Change the Future, Imagine and Make It

Creative intelligence, as I define it, is the capacity to generate both novel and useful insights and then discern and act upon the best of them. Creative intelligence is something each human being possesses on a spectrum – and creative intelligence is activated collectively with others.

Let me offer some perspective on how powerful – and not passive – our activated imagination and creative intelligence can be to bring about the change we desire.

20 Books To Change How You Think About Business, Well-Being, Wonder and Nature

20 Books To Change How You Think About Business, Well-Being, Wonder and Nature

Books aren’t just objects. Books are agents of wonder as they expand my perspective on what is real, what is true, and what is possible.

Many clients, customers, audience members, and readers often ask me about the books that shape my world, so I offer here a glimpse into my reading journey —touching upon themes ranging from business strategies to personal well-being.

Three (3) Productivity Books for Advancing Big Ideas

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)