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Courage Can Change the World—and You!
One morning last week I wrote down everything I could imagine to be afraid of: my dog could run away; I could get really sick, be a bad parent, not be able to pay bills; I could be fooling...
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Steal Like an Artist: Austin Kleon
So when I ordered online Manage Your Day-to-Day, featured last week, I was prompted that people who bought this, also bought Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. Not wanting to appear less bright...
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Accomplishing through Repetition
How can we pull off that big project or life goal? Mark Twain said, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks...
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Creating Habits through Repetition
It’s through repetition that we rewire our brains. Doing something over and over, no matter how small, has a huge power. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, says we have a limited amount of...
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Re-imagine Work
Dave Coplin starts with a study that says that “71 percent of the American workforce is not happy at work, is disengaged.” In this RSA animate, he asks us to re-imagine work in the digital revolution....
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Maria Popova: Seven Lessons
I’m a big fan of the blog Brain Pickings. To celebrate it’s turning seven this week, creator/writer Marie Popova lists seven lessons she’s learned over those years ”in the hope that they...
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Maximize Your Potential
“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” Peter Drucker said. And that’s at the heart of Maximize Your Potential. It’s the second (after Manage Your Day-to-Day) of a three-part...
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Learn New Tricks
As a young man, Albert Schweitzer made big marks in several fields. He was a renowned organist and an expert on Bach. He had earned a doctorate in philosophy and another in theology and had...
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Pomodoros at Panera with Pandora
To get ready for the new year, I started with two Pomodoros at Panera listening to Pandora. By time the holidays are over, I’ve usually taken stock of the past year and written down what I’d...
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Daily Rituals Can Get Stuff Done
My daily ritual usually includes a little reading from some nonfiction book. The genre wanders: social change, business or marketing, psychology, history, biography, spirituality and so on. I just...
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Pick Your Issue
By Tom Peterson It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed when we see injustice, greed and a broken world with so many needs. Sometimes it’s just too much and we become paralyzed. Here’s a freeing thought:...
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Avoid Cynics, Pessimists and Other Downers
By Tom Peterson This is a post I’ve avoided writing because it’s an unpleasant topic. But it’s important for those who choose a path of improving the world. Hanging out with positive people who give...
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Agency: You Can Go Any Direction You Choose
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss By Tom Peterson The other night, a few of us stayed up late discussing what...
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Know your Purpose in Life
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain By Tom Peterson What’s your purpose in life? Do you know? Hear the words of...
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Ten ways to grow as a nonprofit professional
By Tom Peterson Working as a nonprofit professional and wondering, What can I do to grow? Here are some ideas created by a couple dozen nonprofit folks in a twenty-minute exercise called “25/10...
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Branding Heifer International
By Tom Peterson Not too often, but occasionally a nonprofit should re-think its brand. Brands are so much more than logos and words. Here’s my best recollection about one such endeavor: the rebranding...
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Ask for Help to Grow your Cause
By Tom Peterson In the acknowledgements section of her best-selling book Quiet, Susan Cain thanks more than 200 people by name. Along the way, she had asked those people to help her: share...
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Take on the ogres that block progress
By Tom Peterson Years ago, waiting with my younger son in the elementary school auditorium for the holiday program to begin, I ask what he learned in school that day. “VCCV,” he says. “VCCV?...
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Bold Goals, Audacious Goals
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It...
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Strategic plans help you move from goal to reality
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” — Mark...
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