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 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
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…
Counter-intuitive ways to set and achieve goals amidst rampant uncertainty
With a little curiosity and creativity, we can advance our goals and find innovative solutions to the unprecedented challenges we face – even amidst rampant uncertainty.
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…
How You Can Support Black Business Artists Now
The ongoing protests and mounting movement for racial justice have challenged individuals, businesses, and brands from around the globe to reflect, analyze, take a stance, and act. While there has been a recent spike in support for black-owned businesses, dollars…
9 Books to Read in Times of Uncertainty
Between curfews and quarantines, you’ll probably have a lot more time on your hands than you’re used to. Rather than fritter that time away by stressing over the unknown or scrolling through ominous news headlines all day, why not take…
4 Threads of Deep Purpose
To inspire your work and enrich your life People who feel a sense of purpose, according to recent studies, are more productive and happier in their work. According to a recent Deloitte survey, 90% of Millennials want their work to…
3 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Retreat
A colleague I recently had dinner with heads up leadership development at a major corporation while testing the waters with her own private consulting. She admitted that it had just dawned on her that there are only 168 hours in…
Wondrous Insights from Quest2020
Hello Questers and Wonder Trackers! December has flown by and we find ourselves in the last week of Quest2020. For those of you who aren’t participating in our annual reflective journey called Quest, our community of change-makers from around the…
