Today is a slow day. I am feeling uninspired and un-motived. My energy levels are low. In my years as a CEO I had plenty of days like that, but very rarely gave myself permission to be unproductive. CEOs, and people in positions of power in general, like to think of themselves as too busy to pause, as indispensable. Being busy is a badge of honour for others to take note of. And so, as…
Category: open practice
The game is heating up in the blogosphere… so I better jump in and join the fun. Commenting (of course), and blogging. What’s happening is… a new community of practice all about blogging. Blogging in Higher Ed. Blogging for Educators. Blogging for life (#4life). Time to get remixing your badge and get ready to follow Jim Groom’s call to action: …it’s high time to let your blog flag fly. Dust off that archived site, or…
It’s the time of year again… and as someone who works remotely with clients across different timezones, most of my ‘festive’ moments at work are unceremonious video calls that end abruptly as everyone rushes off to their next meeting. Meanwhile, across the various social media spaces I take part in, corporate messages of (apparent) goodwill mix uneasily with cheery commercial overload, making it hard to find the actual updates from actual people I care about.…
I’m always interested in new ways to keep blogging and recently I had the opportunity to try a new approach, which we might call ‘braided’ blogging. This came about through a coaching conversation with Mark Corbett Wilson, whose blog, Talking with Machines, is definitely worth a visit. With a rich background in making art, storytelling and digital technologies, Mark is always up for trying new ways of collaborating on the open web and for this…
In the best tradition of blogging about blogging, today’s post is all about getting started with or getting back into blogging. Recently I have had lots of conversations with folk who would like to blog more, but don’t. Or who feel they *should* be blogging more often, but they haven’t actually managed to do so. If that’s you and you are looking for ways to get your blogging mojo back, this post is for you.…
Every now and then I take a month and celebrate a small win every day. When I blogged about this a couple of years ago, the motivation came from a time of being overstretched, a period during which it felt like no matter how much I did I never achieved enough. This time round my motivation is different, and more aligned to my desire to practice gratitude and to make the most of a busy,…