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Own Your Outcast Status
How It Started In 2014, I left my job as a policy analyst and strategic planner. I'd been so excited by that job - for lots of reasons. I was the...
Change and personal development (2)
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Inciting Incidents
As I assume you've noticed, The Queen died last week after 70 years as the reigning monarch. In that time, she saw a lot, including:
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Use Your Big Voice
Last Tuesday, I took my children to see Clementine Ford at the Embassy Theatre here in Wellington. Of all the wonderful things she said, one...
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Unwinnable Games
On Sunday, I got busy organising and optimising for a packed week. Between school runs, home maintenance disasters, travel and work, I knew I was in...
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Why Change Makes Things Worse Before It Makes Things Better
I recently received a request from Angela, a Wednesday Wisdom reader, to talk about the immediate impact of organisational change on productivity....
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Good People and Bad Systems
Change is hard to talk about, because people tend to feel personally attacked. They have good reason to feel that way. When we talk about the things...
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Find Your Why Journey Update #2
I recently sent out a Wednesday Wisdom about a traumatic time I've experienced in my personal life and business.
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Stop being nice: 7 reasons why your niceness is dangerous
I have a confession to make: I'm suspicious of nice people.
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How to Make Your Problems Useful
There's no way to avoid problems, I'm afraid. Problems are like cockroaches and glitter: even when the world ends, they'll still be there.
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Find Your Why Journey Update #1
I recently sent out a Wednesday Wisdom about a traumatic time I've experienced in my personal life and business.
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Outrageous Conversations: How to convert controversy into connection
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this article. Your thoughts, links, resources and ideas were invaluable in pulling this piece together. I've...
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Get Outside of Yourself
There's a great AA meme: "I'm not much, but I'm all I think about."
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It's OK to Upset People
I've always struggled to set boundaries. I've been a mother since I was 16 years old, I've been living independently since I was 13 and I spent much...
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Create a Personal Strategy
I just finished reading Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber, which is a thoroughly excellent book about the modern world of work. According to...
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Throw Your Raft In the Ocean
In an old Buddhist parable, a man is trapped on one side of a rushing river. On this side of the river, there is great danger and uncertainty; on the...
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Facilitate Meaning Through Experience
I've been lucky to spend some time with Optimal Workshop recently. One of the coolest things about their office is the large library they have in...
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5 Things You Should Know About Clarity
1. Clarity is the product of confusion. You don't understand what really matters until you've been distracted by the things that don't. You don't...
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How to trust people to do a good job: your delegation toolkit
In this article: Why delegation is hard Bring the energy Remove the niggles Boost clarity
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4 ways to move fast without breaking things
Hi, I'm Alicia McKay, a serial fast-moving thing-breaker. It's one of my best qualities - I execute ideas quickly and fix them as I go. I'm often on...
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Use your personal compass to make tricky choices
The average person makes 17,000 decisions a day. Most of those are easy, like what to have for breakfast or what time to leave for work, but some are...
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How to Make Habit Change Easier
Driving to Palmerston North a couple of years ago, a good friend of mine was explaining what they'd learned in yoga about habit change.
