Every team team meeting would begin with building rapport, and relationships. I might ask a question as simple as, “How’s your day going?” Building teams requires a commitment to the small stuff. This doesn’t mean we spend our time in personal rants, long exchanges of what we ate, or [...]
Every day is a new beginning. Another chance — to learn more about ourselves, to care more about others, to laugh more than we did, to accomplish more than we could, to be and become more than we were before. "How different our lives are when we really know [...]
Being and becoming your best is hard work. Hard doesn’t mean impossible. Rather, it requires commitment, a goal, and most importantly, consistency. I love the way Seth Godin described the difference between persistence and consistency. As he put it, “persistence is annoying.” I see his point. Excellence, improving, getting [...]
My own gardening skills remain a work in progress. But since my days as a classroom teacher of lanky and emotional thirteen-year-olds, I have often considered my job as a “planter of seeds.” Brian Eno compared the process of making music with gardening. Seed planting to be your best... [...]
