Proactive is the Way

Featured Topic: A Guiding Team - episode 23 This is it folks. Our final month of the 2022 - 2023 season, Designing Your Life. We are wrapping up this season with a series on building a guiding team. Designing your life is a team effort. You don’t have to do it alone. Some of us have a gift of building an effective network and as such have a multitude of resources at our fingertips. Then there are...

Featured Topic: Odyssey Plans - Part 2 If you haven’t noticed or missed it, our 2022 season was all about diving deeper into the Designing Your Life book by giving you more context around certain ideologies presented and taking more time to better understand ourselves to either learn something new, enhance, or self correct certain behaviors to be the best version of ourselves, to be most effective...

Featured Topic: Odyssey Plans - Part 2 If you haven’t noticed or missed it, our 2022 season was all about diving deeper into the Designing Your Life book by giving you more context around certain ideologies presented and taking more time to better understand ourselves to either learn something new, enhance, or self correct certain behaviors to be the best version of ourselves, to be most effective...

Featured Topic: Odyssey Plans Today, we are sharing with you a course offered by the authors of Designing Your Life, by Burnett and Evans. This course focuses on creating 'Odyssey Plans' to help you explore curiosities and design the life (or lives) you want. You will learn how to use design thinking to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your vocation. Odyssey Planning Cour...

Featured Topic: Odyssey Plans Today, we are sharing with you a course offered by the authors of Designing Your Life, by Burnett and Evans. This course focuses on creating 'Odyssey Plans' to help you explore curiosities and design the life (or lives) you want. You will learn how to use design thinking to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your vocation. Odyssey Planning Cour...

Featured Topic: Mind Mapping - episode 20   Today, Tiffany and I will be reviewing the book by Kam Knight, Mind Mapping. We will highlight the pros and cons and dive into the impact that AI has on the viability of this tool.  We will even discuss how the usage of this tool affected the overall results of my exam. Stay tuned to find out how I did!   To prepare for our discussions we recommend that...

Featured Topic: Mind Mapping - episode 20 Today, Tiffany and I will be reviewing the book by Kam Knight, Mind Mapping. We will highlight the pros and cons and dive into the impact that AI has on the viability of this tool.  We will even discuss how the usage of this tool affected the overall results of my exam. Stay tuned to find out how I did! To prepare for our discussions we recommend that you...

Featured Topic: Mind Mapping - episode 19   Today, we are diving into Mind Mapping. A topic that we first highlighted back in October 2022 when we discussed the book, Designing Your Life, written by the authors Burnett and Evans.   I wanted to dive deeper into this topic and make sure that you know how to effectively mind map as you begin to create your odyssey plans. We will learn all about mind...

Featured Topic: Mind Mapping - episode 19   Today, we are diving into Mind Mapping. A topic that we first highlighted back in October 2022 when we discussed the book, Designing Your Life, written by the authors Burnett and Evans.   I wanted to dive deeper into this topic and make sure that you know how to effectively mind map as you begin to create your odyssey plans. We will learn all about mind...

Featured Topic: Do You Got What It Takes?   Why do we tend to value more people who are gifted or, as Angela clarifies, possesses an innate talent and can find success with ease versus people who have to work extremely hard and possess a level of grit, a combination of perseverance and passion? Why do we struggle to value those who find success through trial and error, or who lacked the support an...

Featured Topic: Do You Got What It Takes?   Why do we tend to value more people who are gifted or, as Angela clarifies, possesses an innate talent and can find success with ease versus people who have to work extremely hard and possess a level of grit, a combination of perseverance and passion? Why do we struggle to value those who find success through trial and error, or who lacked the support an...

Featured Topic: Do You Got What It Takes? - episode 17 Today, we are discussing Grit by Angela Duckworth. You will get to listen to an interview conducted by Ted with Angela Lee Duckworth, the author of GRIT and Christopher Anderson, who is the Head of Ted. You are in for a treat folks as Angela discusses what it takes to persevere and succeed, not just in our careers, but in all aspects of our li...

Featured Topic: Do You Got What It Takes? - episode 17 Today, we are discussing Grit by Angela Duckworth. You will get to listen to an interview conducted by Ted with Angela Lee Duckworth, the author of GRIT and Christopher Anderson, who is the Head of Ted. You are in for a treat folks as Angela discusses what it takes to persevere and succeed, not just in our careers, but in all aspects of our li...

SPECIAL EDITION: Get’cha Mind Right Listen to the Proactive is the Way series Get’cha Mind Right, The Six Thinking Hats. Answer all of the riddles correctly and be entered into a drawing to win* 1 of 3 prizes. An item of your choice within the KK Cafe Collection A copy of Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono Answer all questions correctly and the Bonus Question to be eligible to enter into a specia...

Featured Topic: Get’cha Mind Right The Six Thinking Hats So often we begin an endeavor without much thought. When it comes time to make a decision we may find that we have not looked at the entire picture and assessed the situation comprehensively to come to a solid conclusion that would seek the most optimal outcome. How can we ensure that we do not miss a step in our thought process? In steps, t...

Featured Topic: Get’cha Mind Right  The Six Thinking Hats So often we begin an endeavor without much thought. When it comes time to make a decision we may find that we have not looked at the entire picture and assessed the situation comprehensively to come to a solid conclusion that would seek the most optimal outcome. How can we ensure that we do not miss a step in our thought process? In steps,...

Featured Topic: Get’cha Mind Right This month we will review the Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono. Edward is long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. We will learn how De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats”. Edward highlights that our success in business and in life depends on how we...

Featured Topic: Get’cha Mind Right This month we will review the Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono. Edward is long recognized as the foremost international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. We will learn how De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his "six thinking hats”. Edward highlights that our success in business and in life depends on how we...

Featured Topic: In My Feelings - Episode 14 This week we are continuing our discussions on being In Our Feelings as we share our thoughts on Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. To prepare for our discussions we recommend that you purchase and READ or listen to: Emotional Intelligence 2.0 You can purchase this book on KK Cafe’s APPROVED at https://www.kinkyknotscafe.com...

Featured Topic: In My Feelings - Episode 14 This week we are continuing our discussions on being In Our Feelings as we share our thoughts on Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. To prepare for our discussions we recommend that you purchase and READ or listen to: Emotional Intelligence 2.0 You can purchase this book on KK Cafe’s APPROVED at https://www.kinkyknotscafe.com...

Featured Topic: In My Feelings - Episode 13 This month we will be all in our feelings and those of others as we discuss Emotional Intelligence. Let’s review the Learning Checklist: Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Emotional Intelligence (EQ)  Survey When you think about what is required to make you successful what are some of the key things folks need to find succ...

Featured Topic: In My Feelings - Episode 13 This month we will be all in our feelings and those of others as we discuss Emotional Intelligence. Let’s review the Learning Checklist: Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Emotional Intelligence (EQ)  Survey When you think about what is required to make you successful what are some of the key things folks need to find succ...

Featured Topic: Let Your Life Speak - Episode 12 Our topic this month will be all about letting our life speak. What should we consider to effectively listen to our voice of vocation? A couple of weeks ago Tiffany and I shared how we tend to listen for the voice of our vocation and where we went wrong on our journey in creating a life fully designed by us. During our discussions one of the issues...

Featured Topic: Let Your Life Speak - Episode 12 Our topic this month will be all about letting our life speak. What should we consider to effectively listen to our voice of vocation? A couple of weeks ago Tiffany and I shared how we tend to listen for the voice of our vocation and where we went wrong on our journey in creating a life fully designed by us. During our discussions one of the issues...

Featured Topic: Let Your Life Speak - Episode 11   Our topic this month will be all about letting our life speak. What should we consider to effectively listen to our voice of vocation?   In the second episode of Designing Your life we highlighted a couple of exercises on how to identify flow and a mind mapping exercise to narrow down activities that we tend to gravitate towards. Then we used this...