Ignite Your Brilliance

I like to read books and I like to watch movies. I recently came across the movie, Passengers , about a journey through space to a new home. The heart of the drama is about two passengers asleep in suspended animation who wake up 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As they face living the rest of their lives on board, with the lives of 5,000 sleeping passengers at stake, they navigate heart - wrenching decisions about life, death, and the will to survive . Life, as it turns out, doesn’t look exactly like they think . At the end of the movie, Aurora Lane, played by Jennifer Lawrence, said, “ You can’t get so hung up on where you’d rather be that you forget to make the most of where you are.” This is profound. I am someone who likes to strive for something better. For the StrengthsFinder 2.0 gurus like myself, this is all about my Maximizer Strength. I can get so stuck on wanting something better for me, my family, my friends, and my clients, that I lose sight of w...

It was the end of the week and I was feeling tired, a little overwhelmed with all of the work yet to do and the new work coming into the pipeline. I mean, it is all good in the bigger scheme of things. But when you are in business for yourself, there is no one to take the extra load. I know I am not alone in this – I hear it often from my clients as well. In last week’s post Checkmarks , I talked about connecting with the bigger purpose of our work in order to minimize checkmarks for the sake of checkmarks. This week’s post builds on this concept of purpose-driven work. I had the opportunity to write an article for the Maple Grove Voice , a website that brings local news, events, and happenings in Maple Grove and the surrounding communities Maple Grove Voice . I am hoping the words I wrote will find their way into the newsletter, but even more important to me is the experience I had while answering questions about my business. The energy and passion that came through was amazi...