Preface: My mind has been on Self-development Hits Home, which is about strengths management, and understanding the difference between your talents, skills, and knowledge. Therefore, articles on the web which touch on skill-building are catching my radar. I reference one of them in the beginning of this post, and continue the conversation for our managed […]
Sunday Mālama: Self-development hits home
The ‘home’ of my post title is me, myself and I, and I’m writing this in the hope you start to think about your home-in-self-health that way too. I had coffee and conversation with a business coach recently, and as we meandered through a myriad of subjects, we landed on talking about different self-development approaches. […]
Rapid Fire Learning: Guilt is a worthless emotion—or is it?
Preface: One of the ‘elders’ in our Ho‘ohana Community is an ‘Ike loa learning habit, a month-end practice we named Rapid Fire Learning (RFL). It starts as a private journaling practice, handwritten for self-reflection and much shorter than what follows: I’ve opted to post this month’s here on the blog to transcribe more, and to curate […]
Mad Respect for Competence
In this article: The ‘Ohana in Business (OIB) of Managing with Aloha will relentlessly pursue professionalism via their competence, and the sequential progression of competency toward expertise. —You’ve decided to have an OIB: The ‘Ohana in Business Starts with “Why?” —You’ve decided to be an Alaka‘i Benefactor: The Alaka‘i Benefactor: Sharing in the ‘Ohana in Business […]
6 Month Review: Give yourself Space for Better and an Energy Audit
July 1st is this coming Friday. It’s time for a 6-month review. Here’s what I suggest: Make space for better in the 6 months of 2016 to come, and Give yourself an energy audit. Over the weekend I checked in with photographer and creative Chase Jarvis, and he got me thinking about energy. Ours. Human-powered […]
When it’s good, S-T-R-E-T-C-H it out!
I’m so excited. This is the day I program my contact places with my “on vacation!” message, and switch gears for two weeks. The hubby and I will be jetting off to a family vacation, and I can barely contain my joy in imagining all it will be for us — we have planned for […]
The difference between Should and Should-ing
‘Should-ing’ isn’t a word that’s made it into the dictionary yet, far as I know. Yet should-ing is probably one of the most useful words I know, part of my vocabulary for a dozen years or so, thanks to Marcus Buckingham, the gentleman who champions the strengths management movement. Should-ing is a cautionary word about […]