What if? was the theme of TEDx Portland on Saturday, April 27 at the Portland Art Museum. With 1000 other people, I was fortunate enough to attend this sold-out event, the third TEDx in Portland. With 16 talks and 4 performances, the day exceeded all expectations!
A few samplings from TEDx speakers...
Jonathan Krisel - writer and…
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What is the distinction between a fact and a story? What difference does it make?
Tony Schwartz in The Way We're Working Isn't Working explains how it makes a huge difference.
"A fact is something that can be objectively verified by any person."
"A story is something we create to make sense of the fact."
When we create…
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"Coaching is unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance...Building awareness, responsibility and self-belief is the goal of a coach."
I came across this great definition of coaching in a book review in the current issue of choice, the magazine of professional coaching (yes, it's all in lowercase). The author of this definition is John Whitmore…
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"This is the time of breathtaking opportunities disguised as unsolvable problems."
Those were the words of John Gardner, the founder of Common Cause, and quoted by Eric Utne in the May-June 2013 issue of UTNE Reader whose tagline is "Cure Ignorance."
Utne's piece is titled "Signs of the Zeitgeist." He shares three events where people in…
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Last weekend I did something I've been wanting to do for quite a while but never gotten around to doing - I purged files. These weren't just any files. These were old financial files that required shredding. I ended up with 18 pounds of paper to shred. Now I do have a shredder at…
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May 21 is the date that a new group will start for It's Habit Forming, A virtual workshop based on the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. This group covers Part 1 of Duhigg's work where we look at The Habit Loop, The Craving Brain, and The Golden Rule of Habit Change.
This virtual…
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