Sometimes I wake up feeling crummy. It’s often a combination of self doubt and all of the unprocessed thoughts leftover from the day before. Here are 3 things I do to seek out joy when I’m having difficulty creating it from the inside out.

Our values, emotions, reasons and peace are sacred. We don’t have to share them, and we don’t need others to understand them in order for us to hold them.

Brain breaks are important for focus, clarity and mental health.

Asking why lends clarity, context and insight to intention.

All too often we place unrealistic expectations on ourselves and on the outcome of our efforts. Feeling defeated when these expectations aren’t met, we quit and give up.

Overdrawn emotional and intellectual bank accounts create low trust and ultimately, poor culture.

Improv your team’s meetings with these simple steps!

Sometimes it takes something negative to send us crashing into nature, family, quality time w a special few in place of many.

Culture is a reflection of leadership.

The difference between intentional culture and drift culture, is leadership.

Identity is something we all grapple with. We’re all searching for it, what about losing it?

I don’t love you anymore.

In my feelings a bit this week. I took this photo in September of 2019. Ian and I had coffee together that morning. It wasn’t a date, but it was a date I wanted to remember.

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasure.

Forward. I don’t want to linger mentally in the past, we can’t build in the past but we can build into the future. We can move forward with intention and purpose.

“Be curious . . .

Curiosity will keep you focused on the frontiers of your ignorance. That’s where we learn.”

Playfulness is important. I want to tell you a story about finger guns.

I remember that night vividly. I think my brain made new connections and developed preferences. I learned that I preferred deep conversations full of honesty and vulnerability, I found great joy in entertaining thoughts that were bigger than me and connecting all of that with another human being.