The Eggs of Possibility: Part two

by | journey mapping

What are the qualities of your ideal work? The confetti that’s inside these eggs represents the qualities of my ideal clients and work situations. It’s about a certain kind of connection, energy, flow, stimulation (intellectually, emotionally & financially)...

What’s your sweetspot?

by | coaching

Do you know where it is? I’m pretty sure I’ve found mine. It has to do with my right people: clients and partners. A situation where I get to use my superpower which is helping individuals, businesses and organizations see where they want to go in all its juicy...

The Eggs of Possibility

by | visioning

I’ve been doing a lot of networking, which I like to think of as calling my boats home to me. See I have this image of my ideal clients and partners as sailboats, bobbing in a calm harbor just off my tropical island. Have I mentioned that the metaphor for my business...

My business has colors? (Of course it does!)

by | coaching

OMG, I color-coded my business and I am so happy. Oh the happy! Everything makes sense to me now. Allow me to explain. I’ve been doing some coaching with the lovely and brilliant Cairene, a systems and time management savant, of ThirdHandWorks. She totally gets us...

Visually mapping Slow Food=Love

by | client stories

I had the distinct pleasure of visually mapping a presentation that Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, gave to an audience at the CDC the other week on food policy. This was the third such talk in a series that began with Alice Waters then Michael Pollan and now...

This week’s whimsy: Save the words edition.

by | visual thinking

A small collection of whimsy—pure and simple. Just cool stuff creative people are contributing to the world that catches my eye and lightens the moment. Might generate an idea here or there. Might inspire something. Might just be fun and remarkable. Whimsy=...

How visual mapping enlivens conferences

by | conferences

Back in December (seems like so long ago), I spent six days with 15,000 brilliant earth and space scientists from around the world who flock annually to San Francisco for the AGU Fall Meeting. I was invited to visually map parts of the conference after I visually...

A visual business plan teleclass

by | visual thinking

So next Thursday I’m doing this thing, a teleclass, with my buddy Cairene MacDonald of ThirdHandWorks. I absolutely love Cairene and have participated in many of her Bite the Candy sessions where you carve out several hours to tackle a few of those things that have...

Feeling like a rock star here in San Fran

by | conferences

I’ve been here this week working at AGU’s Fall Meeting, which is the largest gathering of geospace scientists in the world. There are thousands of brilliant earth and space scientists sharing their research findings with each other, networking, drinking...

My boats. Where are my boats?

by | visioning

Yesterday my friend, the amazing Hiro Boga, held a free teleclass where she offered a taste of her amazing energy work. I never pass up an opportunity to tune into the depth of myself with someone as gifted as Hiro. On the Yellow Brick Road call, (if you weren’t on it...