Move Your Desk

How are you showing up in the world right now? Are you overcome by anxiety, anger, judgement, and criticism? How does this play out in your daily life, your work, and interpersonal relationships?

Regardless of your yesterday, today you still get to choose if you will show up as a wrecker or a builder.

Each of us takes on different work roles as we move along our career, entrepreneur, or life path.

In that process, we will replace someone else and someone else will replace us.

These transitions can mean nothing to us or everything, depending upon how we handle them.

It can be a vulnerable time of self-doubt, confusion, and mind churning thoughts. That is, until we notice that it gives us an opportunity to become aware of how we can improve and grow while also honoring what we offered up in our work. Oh, and doing the same for those who replace us.

It's been a year since I got started podcasting. In some ways I feel like I haven't accomplished anything. In moments, I realize that I have grown a lot.

It's valuable to take pause and recognize this milestone on my journey. As I reflect, I hope you will recognize your own progress and use that as momentum to keep stepping forward in your personal life work.

Until recently, I didn't know that Bruce Lee was at the height of his career in Hong Kong while I was a little girl living a few hours away in Bangkok, Thailand.

My father let me know that he remembers going to a few movies in Thailand and saw the Bruce Lee martial arts movie trailers coming across the screen.

I wouldn't have put these facts together if I hadn't taken a few late nights recently to watch the Ip Man series and The Legend of Bruce Lee. I'm glad I did.

As an amateur martial arts fan, it was fascinating and inspiring to see Bruce and Linda Lee, Ip Man, and others so committed to offering up their best work. I'm amazed that Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee's daughter, continues to forward his legacy.

In this episode, I've shared a few lessons that I learned along the journey about Bruce and those that were tied to his life purpose.

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There will always be constraints. And, the world is going through a few worldwide constraints right now that impact us all.

In this episode, I pull in lessons from the theory of constraints (Eliyahu M. Goldratt) to share with you how I have turned multiple constraints into opportunities for growth and learning.

It's not easy, but it can be done if we ask ourselves new questions and are willing to explore possibilities in life and work.

Check out this and other episodes at https://www.moveyourdesk.com

Some of you are in touch with your emotions.

Some of us (me included) aren't. In fact, we think we aren't that emotional. And, we are wrong.

Emotions drive all the actions in our lives, and they are behind all the reasons we refrain from action as well.

It's been a rough terrain week of emotions for me and I share some of the reasons in this episode toward pointing out a few insights about those pesky feelings that determine what results we get in our lives.

Join me on this episode as I share some of what I'm learning and be prepared for more episodes about the emotions as I figure out how to explain it to some of you hard working high achievers that think you can avoid feeling the feelings to offer up your best work.

When I coach, I use mind frameworks to organize what is going on in your brain so that all the great information you consume and learn can be turned into something useful toward upleveling your work.

This episode is extracted from some work I did with a client a few weeks ago. I walk through his initial thoughts and then a thought that would serve him better in making is desires come true. In this case, he wanted to be accepted as capable and ready for the next level of leadership.

Tune in to see if he made it to his goal or if he has more work to do.

More episodes available at https://www.moveyourdesk.com/podcast

Having a problem with an employee? Hired someone to do some work and they aren't quite creating what you expected?

It's easy to point fingers in these moments. But, pause and take a step back. Perhaps you haven't done your job describing exactly what is expected.

Though identifying and clarifying requirements is a full-time job for some, anyone that wants to offer up their best work benefits from building this skill. It takes practice, but can save time and money in the long run.

It's always great to hear from listeners. Sometimes it's what they've learned, other moments thoughts that help me improve, and still others that create a perpetual cycle of sharing and collaboration over time.

Tune in to hear Tiny Person share some thoughts, my father provide feedback, and nuggets from friends that set examples for who I want to become and that choose to continually learn and grow.

Push Back on the Desk episodes are specifically devoted to focusing on you and your feedback. I hope you enjoy it! I appreciate hearing from you.

College is different this year for most, for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Part of the experience includes additional decision-making and learning more about personal interests.

It's reminding me of what I experienced at moments in my life related to selecting colleges. I had made a plan to move forward based upon my experiences, my comfort level, and information available to me at those moments.

But, my plans were interrupted by what I call spiritual nudges (an idea introduced din Episode 52).

These are important, whether they come from the heavens or from a person. They can provide further clarity for your current plan or may even take you in a new direction.

Entertain these nudges, pursue them, and be open to them. They often arrive just as you least expect them, but are exactly necessary for your next step.