CREATE vs. CONSUME

PEACOCK ... MAY DAY Basket from Bloom Luxury Box The more you create, the more powerful you become.  The more you consume, the more powerful others become.Quote by James Clear 3-2-1 ThursdaysREFLECTION:How much do you create?What do you create?How can you create more and consume less?

TRANSMITTING vs. FACILITATING

Be the guide on the side not the sage on the stage.Alison King coined this phrase in an article in College Teaching in 1993.REFLECTION:Do you prefer to be the sage on the stage or the guide on the side?Going forward, do you need to shift how you 'be' - more facilitating and less transmitting?

THREE STAGES OF CONVERSATION

There are three stages of conversation  as you move from VIP (very important person) to PIP (previously important person).The first vault is how we communicate the facts of our lives... so that's how we talk to each other at cocktail parties about who we are.  The second vault is in our heart and the stories we tell.  The stories can be liberating or they can be incarcerating.  Because we can get stuck in stories and our friends and families remind us of the stories... and the stories we tell about ourselves.  The third vault is speaking from the essence of who you are that soul, that unplanned way of communicating.  Comments shared by Aaron Taylor - two time Super Bowl winner for Green Bay Packers  - he shared this at Modern Elder Academy (MEA) with Chip Conley.REFLECTION:What stage of conversation to you engage in most of the time?Do your stories liberate or incarcerate you?How often do you speak from the essence of who you are?