Finding Your Sweet Spot
Your "sweet spot" of effectiveness is discovered through active contemplation, not passive reflection. The broader your base of experience, the more patterns you will be able to discern.
Finding Your Sweet Spot
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Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
On this episode, we share some principles for navigating to your sweet spot, and operating in your area of maximum effectiveness.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot” Of Effectiveness
Finding Your “Sweet Spot” Of Effectiveness
Where do you add the most value?
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
Do you have a framework for making decisions?
The Big Idea: Louder Than Words
The Big Idea: Louder Than Words
On this episode, I share the big idea of my third book Louder Than Words, and a few ideas for how to develop a voice that resonates with the people you lead and serve.
Find Your Creative Voice With These 10 Questions
Find Your Creative Voice With These 10 Questions
We must actively search for our creative voice, and clear a path for it to emerge. It is uncovered, not manufactured. We may not even like what we discover at first, but by embracing it we will position ourselves to occupy the unique space for which we’re wired.
Here are a ten questions that will help you uncover clues to your unique contribution.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
What could you be better at than anyone around you? It's a question worth exploring.
Podcast: What Should I Do With My Life?
Podcast: What Should I Do With My Life?
Do you have a framework for making larger decisions about your life, your career, and your work? How do you decide what you're trying to do with your life? In this episode, I address a question from a listener about how to make decisions about the larger questions of life and career.
Podcast: How To Gain Clarity In Your Work
Podcast: How To Gain Clarity In Your Work
Do you have a framework for making decisions in your life and work? A personal (or team) manifesto can guide your work and help you do work that is personally meaningful and uniquely valuable.
Podcast: Doing What You’re Wired For
Podcast: Doing What You’re Wired For
Are you doing the work you're wired to do, or are you just moving through you days? If you want to figure out what you're wired for, and you want to create impact with your work, you need to cultvate six traits.
Podcast: Overcoming Creative Roadblocks
Podcast: Overcoming Creative Roadblocks
The hardest part of any creative project isn't the beginning or the end, it's squarely in the middle. This is where you'll encounter three common roadblocks, or hurdles, that will make it difficult to complete your task. In today's episode, we deconstruct these three hurdles and discuss how to overcome them.
Podcast: Making Common
Podcast: Making Common
To "communicate" means to "make common". What common ground are you trying to build with your intended audience through your work? What impact are you trying to achieve with your intended audience? In today's episode, I read an excerpt from my new book Louder Than Words and challenge you to consider how you can make your work resonate more deeply.
Podcast: Make Your Ideas Resonate With Others
Podcast: Make Your Ideas Resonate With Others
Great work isn’t enough on its own. If you want your idea to be heard, you have to go the extra mile to ensure that it’s framed to resonate with the right audience. In this episode, you'll learn how.
Discover What’s Worth Working For, Then Spend Yourself On It
Discover What’s Worth Working For, Then Spend Yourself On It
I just spent years researching and writing a book about voice. Voice? Seriously? Why would I do that? Honestly, if I offered you ten potential books to read, and a book about voice was among them, I'd guess that the voice book would probably be among the least...
Why No One Is Listening To Your Great Idea
Why No One Is Listening To Your Great Idea
The ugly truth is that great work isn’t enough. No one tells you this early in your career; It’s something you learn over time. Cream doesn’t automatically rise to the top, and we don’t live in a meritocracy. If you want your idea to be heard, you have to go the extra mile to ensure that it’s framed to resonate with the right audience.
Podcast: Tending The Flame
Podcast: Tending The Flame
In your life and work, you are the keeper of the flame. It’s your job to keep the fire burning, whatever it takes. It’s essential to your ability to thrive, and build a body of work that you point to with pride.
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
Failure Is Inevitable. What Matters Is How You Deal With It.
After expending so much time, energy, and focus on something you care about, it can be devastating when it just doesn't click. What you do next is very important.
Where You Get Stuck (And What To Do About It)
Where You Get Stuck (And What To Do About It)
There are some common "sticking points" that can stall your work's impact. You must push through them to take your work to the next level.
Podcast: DJ Z-Trip on Finding Your Voice
Podcast: DJ Z-Trip on Finding Your Voice
On any given night, you'll find DJ Z-Trip entertaining tens of thousands of fans at sold-out shows or at festivals such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, or SXSW. In this interview, he shares how he developed such a unique, resonant style, and how each of us can follow his example to develop our own unique voice.
Podcast: Make Your Work Resonate
Podcast: Make Your Work Resonate
We all want our work to impact the world. But how do you make your work resonate deeply with your intended audience? Today, I share the six markers of resonance from my new book Louder Than Words.