Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

January 3, 2025
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Transformation Questions Build Curiosity Muscles

Better Questions For Someone at Your Advanced Level What a year! Did anyone get the license number of that truck that just ran over us? Do you have more questions than answers these days? Can I count on you to step into the GCP Community to help us sort this out and […]
December 20, 2024
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Productivity for the Gifted Professional

An Entirely Fresh Approach for a Neurodiverse Brain When I first wrote about productivity, I did not know I was gifted. That was five years ago and many transformative, mind-blowing changes drive me back to this topic for a 2025 version and an entirely fresh approach to productivity My 2019 article still […]
December 12, 2024
sculpture The Thinker

Star of Wonder. Star With Royal Beauty Bright.

Guide us to a perfect light. Who have been your guiding stars this year? I wonder—a lot. I can overthink anything. Most of all, I obsess about you, the reader of this weekly post, and the online community members for Gifted Professionals and Communicators Sia and I started three years ago. The […]
December 7, 2024
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I’ve got a hundred million reasons to walk away

But baby, I just need one good one to stay After 42 years as the first pioneer in association consulting, I had to walk away. In all that time, I discovered there is ONE reason why anyone joins or works for an association and that is the same reason they leave you. […]
November 28, 2024
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Bluesky Basics for Never Twitter Boomers

We Came to the Social Media Party Late. But We Have The Beer. Until this month, I had no use for social media. Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Mastodon, Discord, oh my. Whenever someone encouraged me to open an account, I found the same disappointment. Everyone was broadcasting and not listening. I would close […]
November 20, 2024
Illustration Leonardo da Vinci

Your Professional Paradox

What If Jack of All Trades Triumphs Over Deep Expertise? The worst question to ask a child is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Sending someone down that road blows up in frustration, failed relationships, and mental anguish somewhere around 40 or 50. That question puts our assumptions […]
November 10, 2024
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Grieve, Rest, and Once Again Rise

There is no cure for one of the oldest and most profound human emotions: grief. Just as it is certain you will learn to love, laugh, walk, talk, feed yourself, and develop as a human being, so too is the certainty you will die. Before that happens, you’ll suffer loss so crushing […]
October 21, 2024
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When Someone Realizes Your Genius, You Can’t Stop Thinking About Them

Curiosity holds a commanding position in all conversations and literature about communication, professionalism, and exceptionally talented adults. In this community, I’ve noticed how curiosity cuts across all our behaviors. Maybe it’s the glue that answers the question: In what way are professionals, communicators, and gifted adults bonded in deep thinking and extraordinary […]