MAWMonday Motivators 07/16/2017
What Kindness Are You Giving Yourself? Kindness, possibility, and authenticity. These are the focus this week. Kindness shared freely with the world and even those who seemingly don’t deserve it. But, also kindness to yourself. To speak kind words that nudge you out of a shell of regret, failure, and uncertainty. Kindness is the beginning...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 07/09/2017
Process, Your Progress & Canaries in Coal Mines This week’s inspiration is in process and progress. Revere the process with greater esteem than you have been. Accept progress as simply as you allow the inhale and exhale of breath. That feeling of stretch is the process. You are going to emerge stronger and live your...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 07/02/2017
You Should Have Started A Long Time Ago The experience of any increase in efficiency, passion, reasoning, knowledge, or joy is immediately followed with a common human thought. We all rack our brains attempting to figure out why we waited so long to implement the new solution. We wonder what took us so long. Often,...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 06/25/2017
An Honest Global Solution This week’s motivation begins with a tweet by Gina Humber. Delivered with no photo, animation, fanfare, or ritual, it makes a simple request and asks a simple question. Request: be honest with yourself. Question: are you prepared be part of the global solution. If you have been near me for any...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 06/18/2017
Beware the Trap: Seeking a Fair Trade #Juneteenth is tomorrow, and the anniversary has me thinking. I’m thinking also because I am launching a venture 18 years in the making. But, I am wondering how many assumptions we make about life that are simply not true. How many truisms do we accepts because they are...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 06/11/2017
Back to Basics: the Fundamentals of You …and your success. I think it is somewhat okay to play it safe. Maybe you don’t have all the information you need to work with. Maybe you have not figured out what really matters, or you have don’t know what you need for survival. What I cannot understand...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 06/04/2017
Character and Creativity require Endurance and Evidence I’m saying that if you don’t have an Outcome, nobody wants to hear your Objectives. Your Resolutions offer little without Results. And, that puts you in a pressure spot. What if you can’t deliver? What if you are not there yet? What if it’s not good enough? What...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 05/28/2017
It’s Game Time: This is What Life Feels Like Between the NBA playoffs and life’s daily grind, the tension is high. School has ended for many or is ending soon, a great achievement with the potential anxiety of that question. “What’s next?” It’s similar to de-tangling a box of Christmas lights while not knowing whether...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 05/21/2017
Forced to Launch Last week was about loss. This week is about launch. It follows logically. After you stare, flat on your back at rock bottom and make the choice to get up again, the choice is both physical and mental. Perhaps the greatest challenge is with the emotions. Emotions that come from what ifs,...Continue reading→
MAWMonday Motivators 05/14/2017
Have You Lost Enough to Overcome Your Fear? “Let’s do it. What do I have to lose?” There is something about not having much or losing it all that clears the pathway to bold ideas and new strategies. Could it be that your fears are not encapsulated within the rationalizations and intellectualizations you communicate? Could...Continue reading→