The Things We Stop Seeing
It’s easy to stop seeing those familiar things, which we do in so many areas of life.
Familiarity has a way of turning blessings into background scenery.
It’s easy to stop seeing those familiar things, which we do in so many areas of life.
Familiarity has a way of turning blessings into background scenery.
In leadership, relationships matter more than we often realize. Yet many of us wait too long to express gratitude to the people who have influenced, encouraged, and shaped our lives. Inspired by a conversation with University of Oklahoma Vice President Matt Rom, this reflection explores what he calls the “eulogy problem”—our tendency to say the most meaningful things about people only after they’re gone—and challenges us to tell them now.
Keeping a sense of wonder at the magic of the everyday.
Gratitude has been on my mind lately, I guess, judging by my newsletter.
This week I was thinking about it in the context of perspective, with the help of our 3-legged cat and 14-year-old dog.
Gratitude isn’t soft. It’s strong. And it may be one of the most underutilized tools we have in leadership today.
And at the end of the day, it changes how we see the world.
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