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Gratitude Is Not About the Past. It Guides Our Future.
We think gratitude is about the past. It’s not. Gratitude feels like an emotion in which we reflect on a past event, or previous moment, or sometimes a specific person, and what they did for us or how they made us feel. We think about that past place and time and person and feel a ...
Every Big Thing You Have Ever Done Required This
Hello and welcome back to our newsletter! Last week I was musing about ultrarunning Japanese monks. How they can possibly fathom their own astonishing goals? Not to oversimplify it, but basically they don’t. They just take it one step at a time. This week I’m thinking about how our attention is fracturing. Our eroding focus ...
The 2026 Imperative: Equip Your Managers with the Human Skills to Lead Career Growth
If 2025 was the year of AI integration, 2026 will be the year of human reintegration. As organizations continue to automate, consolidate, and restructure, the one question that keeps surfacing across Learning and Development conversations is: “How do we make sure our people still feel like they’re growing?” The answer isn’t in another technology investment. ...
ELearning Trends to Keep Your Eye on in 2025
The workplace is evolving faster than ever, and employee training needs to keep pace. eLearning has proven to be a powerful tool for delivering quick, focused learning that fits seamlessly into busy workdays. But what’s next? As we move into 2025, fresh innovations and tailored approaches are set to make eLearning smarter, more engaging, and ...
Drop the Brag List. What Will You Accomplish Tomorrow?
Achievement pressure starts young. By the time they hit high school, many kids today are overloaded with AP classes, injured or in physical therapy with non-stop athletic activities, and all the while pressured to pad out their community service resume so they can look better on college applications. The pressure is relentless. Episodes of depression ...
When Are You at Your Best?
What are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you have to do? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about obligation? Now, what are you thinking about when you are thinking about the things you get to do? What are you thinking about when you are thinking about opportunity? ...
