Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #187 — Let It Go So You Can Grow Forgiveness. That word is very top of mind for me right now as the Jewish High Holiday Yom Kippur — The Day of Atonement — began last night at sunset and extends through sunset tonight. The word “atonement” is defined…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #186 — It’s the “Head” of the Year! As of this week, we’re now living in the year 5782. No, this is not an extreme exercise in future planning. At Sunset on Monday, 6 September, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year began. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah literally translates to…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #185 — Certainty is the Obstacle. When I launched out into the world as a newly minted entrepreneur (read: “right after the final time I got fired”), I was certain about so many things. I knew what I knew and, worse than that, I was certain that I was…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #184 — Small changes make large differences! I’ve talked and written (and rambled) extensively about possibility and impossibility because i know the ugly truth. Are you ready? All that you believe to be impossible is so because you believe it to be. On the bright side, whatever you imagine…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #183 — Be Unreasonable! As I look back on my journey as an entrepreneur, what I love the most is how clueless I was … and how that is exactly why I have been successful. I never let the knowledge of “how things work” or “how things are done”…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #182 — Same As It Ever Was… This week I am back in California for a week with my mastermind … this is the first time we have seen each other in person since February 2020! This has been a powerful reminder of how different human connection is when…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #181 — Either/Or? Or Both? The intentional, heartfelt words of a dying always carry more weight. My life has been marked by several chapters of almost opposing goals states. There were times where I was relentlessly attentive to my impact, the being useful, to mattering. And, often in response…
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #180 — Time Is Infinite. Possibilities Are Infinite. The intentional, heartfelt words of a dying always carry more weight. At Carnegie Mellon University, professors are invited to contemplate — and deliver — a “last lecture” … to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical…
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…
