Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #179 — Clear Better. Clear Faster. There’s an energy management technique I learned many years ago called “BMW.” Nope. Nothing to do with the car company. BMW = Bitch, moan, whine. Left to my own devices, I used to rattling on in a negative way about whatever challenge I…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #178 — The Purge I watched a workshop Stefan Mumaw delivered for a room full of creatives. He’s the Creative Director and Director of Narrative Strategy for First Person and the topic of one of the exercises was innovation. When asked to create the “ultimate desk,’ each team created…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #177 — Wide Then Narrow In the past, whenever I got overwhelmed, my default was to go into heavy “DO mode.” I’d go heads down, hunker down, plow forward… work harder. On the surface, that seemed to be effective … but it wasn’t. My friend Parissa Behnia draws out…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #176 — This One is “Musty”! OK. I know! I’m not a fan of “must” … It’s one of the “shouldy” words: should, must, need to, have to, ought to … they ALL have an external locus of influence, of direction, of power. They diminish our ability to make…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #175 — Cultural Architecture Time. Energy. Effort. Attention. Those are the only four currencies that matter … our only four True Currencies. I use #TrueCurrency because they are precious, they are exhaustible, and they are completely under our individual control. You have 100% agency over how you invest your…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #174 — Mastery Is Unpacking the Unconscious. Earlier this week I co-led a workshop with another amazing coach, Rusty Gaillard. Co-creating with him was the first time we had ever collaborated and this event was the first time we led together. All of it went fabulously (and the folk…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #173 — Either/Or? Or Both? Yes, “success” had a different meaning for each of us. By default, most of those definitions are colored by the world around us, by social constructs, by external markers. For me, success is an internal measure. When I look for an external measure, the…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #172 — I Dare You! Wow. As I look back on 30 years as an entrepreneur, I realize … I started a LOT of things. Did I finish them? No. Not most of them. Did I even know what ‘finished’ would/could/should look like? Nope. Definitely not. Now, if I…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #171 — Momentum Is Everything! There is so much brilliance in our heads. So much so that many – if not most – of us spend much of our time in our heads. NO, this is not another heart-vs-head rant. This is about movement! Perseveration creates nothing but stasis….
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #170 — Shut The 🤬 UP! Shhhh. Hush. Silence. Be quiet. Keep mum. Clam up. Button it. Button your lip. Pipe down. Zip it. Put a sock in it. Hold your tongue. Shut your mouth, your maw, your yap, trap, pie hole. We have so many ways to say…
