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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).

Lead Employees with Grounded Hope
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Lead Employees with Grounded Hope

“I don’t think I’m cut out to be a leader,” a client said to me last year. “Maybe I just need a different business model that doesn’t require me to lead people.” Like so many CEOs, entrepreneurs, founders, directors, and business owners with a team I’ve worked with at some point – here was this…

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)

Beginner’s Mind in the New World of Work
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Beginner’s Mind in the New World of Work

“Yikes. I have no idea what I’m doing.” That’s often the first thought when we embark on something new — whether it’s a location, place of employment, or skill. The anxiety of unknown challenges and experiences often impedes our career success. This anxiety often leads to avoiding the situation altogether and to behavioral inertia that…

Become the Author of Your Own Story with Learned Optimism
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Become the Author of Your Own Story with Learned Optimism

We often talk about the power of positive thinking: simply envision yourself acing the job interview and the position is yours, or imagine driving the car of your dreams and soon enough, it will materialize before you. But as you have probably experienced firsthand, life isn’t quite that simple. In Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the…

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…

3 Books to Assume Leadership and Agency in Your Life

3 Books to Assume Leadership and Agency in Your Life

In times of crisis, it’s easy to play the blame game. Overwhelmed by uncertainty, we can fall prey to a helpless mindset that can quickly turn to anger and accusations – even if we never express those feelings to others. Blaming others or our circumstances is an attempt to regain control of our lives. Even…

The Art of Pausing
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The Art of Pausing

When the church bells toll 1 pm throughout Italy, you’ll find workers and school children scuttling home while small businesses and banks alike close up shop. Within an hour, the cobblestone streets are empty. It makes no difference whether you’re in Rome or some remote village, everyone heads home for la pausa: “the pause.” This…

Ease Overwhelm & Uncertainty with 3 Simple Systems
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Ease Overwhelm & Uncertainty with 3 Simple Systems

Burnout hits nearly every entrepreneur and creative at some point.  Your neck and shoulders ache. Your temper is irrationally short. You are more reactive than creative. You worry more than wonder. It feels like there is no time for envisioning the near-future because everything feels immediate and urgent. But if you keep pushing forward this…