DISC is both a strengths lens and a communication-style framework. It helps identify recurring patterns in how people move, decide, process information, relate to others, and prefer to receive communication. In the Wild + Brave framing, the four patterns are treated as strengths rather than fixed personality boxes. People may use all four, show blends,…
What Is Qigong? Gentle Movement, Breathing, and How It Compares to Tai Chi Qigong is a Chinese mind–body practice that brings posture, breathing, and focused attention together to support health and well-being. Pronounced roughly “chee-gong,” it includes gentle movement practices as well as quieter forms of meditation. You may also see it written as qi…
Here’s a Research Snack on something we call Tactical Praise. Most of the research that grabbed us on this topic came through Shawn Achor. If you want to read about it, or listen to his entertaining presentation, check out his book Big Potential. In it he explores what happens when we use praise on purpose…
Time Rich or Time Poor? I’ve been thinking about time wealth a lot lately. Some thinkers who talk about escaping time poverty seem to do so with an undeniable flavor of privilege. They leave us thinking we have to achieve a certain level of affluence and power so we can make choices that protect our…
Make it Easier to Do Your Work (LIVE Replay) Join Coach @MorganHendrix LIVE to learn how to identify and escape the chaos that can arise when planning is interrupted by doing. We’ll also leverage our brain’s “central executive” to help us prioritize and organize our workload. We’ll use some practical techniques to make doing –…
Happy October! I say we start out this new month — this final quarter of 2024 with a wild and brave wish: 💫 May You be Free to Focus on What Matters. Wherever we’re at, whatever is going on, we have things to do. Relationships, careers, passion projects — they all take…
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Creativity: ”Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
💡 Definition of the Character Strength Love of Learning: ”Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Judgment: ”Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; not jumping to conclusions; being able to change one’s mind in light of evidence; weighing all evidence fairly.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Curiosity: ”Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; finding subjects and topics fascinating; exploring and discovering.” (From the VIA Institute on Character) Overuse & Balancing Strengths: