The Wonder Blog
Practical advice, tips, and resources to help you spark purpose and curiosity every day. Advance your best ideas and create space for wonder in work and life.
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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,…
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…
Canoe Talk 6: Wonder And Activism
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…
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…
Forget “Move Fast and Break Things.” In This Era, Move Spaciously and Make Things Well.
Isn’t that idea humming in the back of your foggy mind these days? Maybe you feel as if you’re moving more deliberately (okay, slowly) anyway, as if your mind seems to be processing a bit more, uh, deeply, too. So,…
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…
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…
To Imagine What’s Next for Leadership & Life
How we imagine ourselves to be. What does that mean for us as leaders, thoughtful business owners, and change-makers of all stripes?
The Bright Side of Negative Visioning
It’s the 2008 summer Olympics, and gold-medal winner Michael Phelps is poised to break his own record for the 200-meter butterfly swimming race – a competition that no one could touch him in.But then this happens: After Phelps’s first turn, his…
How Optimism in Teens Leads to Success
Why staying optimistic means more for teens than just putting on a happy face and how we can parent teens in a way that promotes a healthy outlook.
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…
Canoe Talk 5 – How Can I Approach My Business More Playfully?
Talks is a video series of unconventional wisdom in an unconventional setting designed for mindful change-makers – entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, business owners, and professionals. Strategist, teacher, and author of TRACKING WONDER Jeffrey Davis responds personally to questions raised by a
