5 Tools for Better Brainstorming
Innovation can’t be dictated, but it can be facilitated. It’s not a number on an annual budget. It’s an investment in the future of your company. Innovation shouldn’t be a top-down activity. It should bubble up from every person in your organization.
Oh, the places you’ll go!
This summer was filled with speaking and travel for work and for fun, including Niagara Falls; Cleveland; Minneapolis; Branson; Budapest, Hungary; and Vienna, Austria. Here are a few examples of recent speaking engagements this past summer:
Innovation takes time and space
Your full-time employees don’t have time to innovate. Here’s how to help them.
The graveyard of good ideas
Good ideas meet untimely ends every day. We’ve all experienced it—the particular sensation that ripples among creatives when they realize a brainstorming session goes wrong.
Are Your People Too Busy to Think?
The brain is a funny thing, and I see a lot of evidence that many people are struggling. Feeling overwhelmed, foggy, rushing from one task to the next. I believe this is a piece of the puzzle behind The Great Resignation—creative thinkers and knowledge workers absolutely rely on time and space, and many aren’t getting enough—or any at all.
Go With the (Yoga) Flow
This week I taught a yoga class that was all about transitions and flow. As some of you know, I recently transitioned from the corporate world to contract work. It was a tough decision and one I’ve been dreaming about for a while. And as I’m in middle of this transition, I’m on a journey to discover my own creative flow.
The Mindset Makeover, Step 1: Detox Your Dreams
On a recent Saturday I opened up the audible app and was greeted with a podcast rec for an audible original. I’m an audible junkie (there are so many times in the week where I’m on the move and only have time to listen vs. read), so I thought, welp, what a better way to knock out some cleaning before my daughter’s sleepover while listening to a mindfulness podcast.
Five Mindful Travel Tips
As the world begins to slowly open up again, I’ve struggled to remember how I traveled before. Packing, which had become a quick-and-easy routine, now seems more like a mind-bending activity full of potential pitfalls.
But after a few mishaps on the road and in the air, I’m starting to remember the mindful steps that I’ve been practicing for years that inject more calm into the travel process. Here are some of the steps that have helped me.
3 Ways to Reset your Creativity
As creatives many of us are used to dipping into—and out of—the creative well very quickly. As the pace of our lives continues to accelerate, I find myself craving thinking time more than anything. I need quiet space to let the dreaming happen. But sometimes even when I can carve out the time it feels like my thinking brain is betraying me. Here are my biggest brain blockers—and what I do to overcome them.