On Influence

Many of us go through life feeling powerless to change things. After all, not everyone has leadership status or power conferred upon them. We sometimes believe that influence is a top-down construct—that we can have the most influence from a position of authority. Let’s challenge that assumption. Think about someone whose impact helped change how…

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Leveraging Our Mistakes

Each day we overlook some opportunity to see or to serve. We fail to challenge our assumptions and hold fast to our opinions. The result is that we sometimes miss the opportunity to do better. This feels like bad news. But it doesn’t have to be. What if instead of saying; ‘I could kick myself…

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The Act Of Possibility

We associate the word possibility with abundance. Naturally, we think about anything being possible when we’re in a good place. Of course, right now many things are not possible. But something is. We may not always be able to choose what happens but we can choose how we respond. What’s the smallest act of possibility…

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The Magic Of Making It Up As You Go Along

In Robin Sloan’s Fish: a tap essay, he asks what it means to love something on the Internet. Liking with a single click of the mouse is not the same as loving. To love something means to be moved enough to want more. It means to go back, retrace your steps, to linger. Yesterday I…

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