Breaking the Perfectionism-Procrastination Infinite Loop
Putting it off doesn’t make it go away. Getting it done does. — Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction You get out of the meeting with your client, full of ideas and energy about what you’re going to do next. You commit to a deadline for ideas, a proposal, designs — some kind of deliverable to […]
Is Your Inner Critic Too Loud? Tune It Out!
“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.” — W. H. Auden, poet In the past, the Inner Critic may have seemed like a huge, intimidating presence in your mind, with your stringent self-criticisms appearing as if they are the […]
The Art of Plussing People’s Ideas By Using “Yes, And”
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard, author and management expert Feelings of deficiency can foster competitiveness and jealousy, which tend to shut down your creativity. When we are overcome with feeling like we don’t know enough and that we’ll never be able to keep up with our […]
Video: The Collaborative Age with Randy Nelson
I love this video as much today as I did when I first watched it several years back. The principles that Randy teaches are not only the foundations of improv, but also are the secret to ANY successful creative collaboration endeavor. The practice of not judging something that comes to you to work with is […]
How to Transform Your Inner Critic Into an Inner Evaluator
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia, author Much of what people think of as the Inner Critic is precisely what we are dealing with in this book: the voice of self-criticizing, self-doubt, and self-berating. However, there is another part of our psyche I think of more as “the Inner […]
