by dustin | May 4, 2015 | Creativity, Ideas, inspiration, leadership, managing people, Professional Development, Success, Teamwork
Creating something seems synonymous to producing something. Yet, the terms creativity and productivity can be very different concepts. If I describe someone as “creative” you probably imagine an artist or a person who generates clever ideas. When I mention...
by dustin | Feb 5, 2015 | human spirit, inspiration, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
“I’ll never let that happen again.” Amidst all of life’s slings and arrows, we learn to put up our shields to protect ourselves. We do this to get through situations when we feel attacked, but if we leave our shields up we close ourselves off....
by dustin | Jan 17, 2015 | inspiration, Personal Development, Success
Many of us remember when the TV show Dallas turned an entire season into “just a dream” in order to bring back a character who had been killed off. Viewers were furious with what they deemed a copout. The solution was much too convenient and it came out of...
by dustin | Jan 7, 2015 | change, inspiration, Success
There can be an exciting place to think about. It is where we want to go. We dream of it. We imagine ourselves somehow looking better – stronger, more secure, more confident, admirable, accomplished, popular, envied, relaxed, unburdened, successful...
by dustin | Dec 23, 2014 | Goal Setting, inspiration, leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
Crossing numerous small hills doesn’t make you a mountain climber. Dousing millions of lit matches one at a time won’t qualify you as a fire fighter. Running a quarter mile every day for four months won’t make you a marathon runner. The tedium of...
by dustin | Dec 18, 2014 | Bloggers I Read, books, Creativity, inspiration, leadership, Personal Development, Seth Godin, Success
After reading Seth Godin’s latest book What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn), a friend and I talked about it. She questioned why there is such a disconnect between how most people live their lives and the possibilities Seth...
