The Catalyst
In chemistry, when you add a catalyst to other substances, things change. Reactions are accelerated, modified, expanded, altered in some way by the simple addition of the catalyst. People can be catalytic too – add Ruth Ann, get a chemical reaction. Sometimes the results are beneficial to humankind. Sometimes things blow up.
It’s Simple
Day 69
You might not know it by looking at my life, but I really love minimalism. If you do too, you’ll appreciate the “Becoming Minimalist“ blog. (Credit where it’s due: I read about it on the Zen Habits blog.)
Next week I’ll share a new e-book with you compiled by Jean Russell. It’s on Thrivability, a concept [...]
On the Ball, On My Feet
Day 59
Three of us meet often in the little office where one of us works. He sits behind his desk. The other person sits in the one visitor’s chair. They always offer to bring in a chair for me, but most of the time I prefer to stand. I work better on my feet.
I have created a [...]
Hugs and Flowers
Day 56
If you enjoyed “patting yourself on the back” and “giving yourself a kiss” yesterday, here’s another do-it-yourself gesture via my sister Carol. “Put your right hand on your left shoulder. Put your left hand on your right shoulder. Now give yourself a big hug!” She actually said “give yourself a big hug from me,” [...]
You Never Step Into The Same Conference Twice
Day 37
If I hadn’t already signed up, I might have decided to skip the TED Conference.
This might shock those who know I love the annual gathering, that it is the one thing that is on my calendar in indelible ink, that I am paid up until 2017.
I’ve been attending in my role as president of [...]
Five Minutes A Day, Max.
Day 27
Yesterday I shared the story of someone whose ten-year goal unfolded before my eyes. This morning, I saw another ten-year success story, and I took it as a sign to share the source: Delancey Place. “Eclectic little excerpts,” usually from non-fiction, are delivered to my mailbox every day.
Although I whacked most of my subscriptions [...]
Want Someone To Pay For Your Sabbatical?
Day 25
I’m a member of the Women Donors Network . Today, one of the members posted that Compass Point link on our confidential listserv that I shared with you earlier here . It’s the study showing nonprofit executives who take sabbaticals are better at their jobs when they return to work.
But she added something else, and I [...]
Why Your Company Should Pay You To Go Away
Day 21
”Sabbatical is the new black,” I said earlier this year, and I’ve been told that a sabbatical is also the new “status symbol.”
More importantly, sabbaticals are a new way to reinvigorate employees, and their workplaces are the eventual beneficiaries.
Compass Point provides some proof in a new study of nonprofit leaders who took three months [...]
A Death In The Family
Day 16
A few years ago, for one of my Uncle Sibby’s landmark birthdays, we were asked to write something for a keepsake book.
Heck, I could have written an entire book (remind me to tell you how he helped me become a champion seller of Girl Scout Cookies, introduced me to party politics while I was [...]
Earthquake in Haiti Aftershocks Felt…Here
Day 15
I’m having flashbacks to my old TV news anchor days.
If I were still working in the newsroom, the earthquake in Haiti would have been the center of my world for as long as it was a big story. I’m glad I’m no longer required to immerse myself in tragedy. These days, I get the information I need, take what [...]
Slower
Day 14
Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of Day 14. I’m not responding to artificial deadlines this year.
When TED Community Director Tom Rielly invited The Harnisch Foundation to be a founding sponsor of the TED Fellows program, we signed on immediately. The TED Fellows are some of the most extraordinary people in the world. As a [...]
