Connection, possibility, conversation… These are a few of the reasons why I chose to embark on the the Access Potential Podcast project a couple of months ago. So far, it has been a really rewarding project and 23 episodes have been recorded. Through this, I’ve found another medium to practice expression and articulation, as well...
“You’ve Got a Chip on Your Shoulder.” This was one of the many odd, somewhat confusing-at-the time sayings my Dad used to have when we were little. I’d mutter under my breath: “Where?? I don’t see any chip. You’ve got a chip!” Or… “Lighten up.” “Knock it off.” A couple more. Emotions come and go....
“That being so, so what now?” Yes there are difficulties, you join the gym or yoga classes and it’s early, you are stiff, you can’t lift the same weights as someone else, you have a lot of work on, your mindset or energy feels “off,” the other people applying for the job are more qualified.....
Don’t get the best results. Even though, sometimes it feels like they will. When you walk through the farmer’s markets, there is always one stall using the shouting method: “for FIVE MINUTES only, ALL these LOVELY tomatoes FOR JUST THREE DOLLARS. FIVE minutes ONLY FOLKS, COME get your tomatoes…!”“ And on we go. Even from...
When you are out of time, you’d better start taking action. When you’re late to a meeting, behind on work, or when you run out of resources for your project, there’s no option except to innovate, to create urgency. The other side of the coin though is moving from capacity. Because there is opportunity to...
I just received an email from Medium, with a blog post on how to optimise your iPhone for productivity and longevity (link at bottom). As I glanced through it, I couldn’t help notice that many of the tips involve limiting the addictive nature of a lot of the apps and tools in the phone. As...
We can ask both intellectual and physical questions. What do you think of this situation? How can you move in this situation? When we are comfortable in a situation and yet still wanting to make improvements, the practice of asking better questions is often all that we need.
The word inspire can be traced back to the latin root word “inspirare,” meaning “to breathe into” or “to blow into.” Inspirare of course stems from spirare, meaning “to breathe.” Soon, we began to use the word figuratively. To breathe in, is to bring in the new, to inspire, to innovate. And to innovate, to...