November 20, 2024

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

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 […]
August 9, 2024

Move Over Information Age, Here Comes Wisdom Management

The Road Less Travelled Is The One Going To Your Preferred Future “Whenever you can’t decide on which path to take — pick the one that produces change,” wrote Kevin Kelly in his book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier (2023). Kelly is a co-founder of Wired Magazine […]
July 23, 2024

Finding Joy in Togetherness: The Science of Collective Effervescence

How Synchronized Energy and Community Impact Our Health Do you believe collective effervescence is essential to your health? It is the high you experience with synchronized energy in rituals and traditions, such as the exhilaration at a sports event when everyone gasps and yells at scoring a goal. This happens at weddings […]
July 18, 2024

If You’re Gifted and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

What Happens When You Grow Up? Does your childhood memory include learning this song in school or singing along with Big Bird or Elmo? If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, then […]
May 1, 2022

Discovering These Untold Truths Are More Valuable Than 100 Self-Help Courses

Here’s how professional writers go faster, deeper, and rethink everything.  Where do the best writers go to learn from each other and discover truths and techniques which keep dialing up their writing productivity, quality, and reputation?  That’s where I want to go and immerse in more productive, more prolific writing.  Before there was the […]
March 14, 2022

Time is an Odyssey and a Blink for Gifted Professionals. Meet Carrie M. Jones.

Visionary is a word we often use to describe what we experience when working with a gifted professional.  What’s really happening is that the complex, multilayered, sensitive mind of the gifted sees thousands of diverse dots so very clear.  This is why communication strengths are so important so that the gifted professional […]
March 3, 2022

Who Are You Not to Be Brilliant?

That’s the question Janine Garner constantly asks her clients—other professionals. It’s a question that we in this community also ask of all Gifted Professionals and Communicators in an effort to identify and free their extraordinary potential. Who are you not to be brilliant?   Janine Garner is a business mentor and CEO, […]
March 3, 2022

There’s Something About Mary—The Intensity of Gifted Professionals

Who is the Everyday Genius™ among us who turned her complexities and multiple layers of professional endeavors into her own art and science of becoming?   Then she took that gift to a global network of communication professionals and business leaders who wanted to learn different thinking in order to become and transform—not […]