“Break It” What is happening in your day? What’s holding you back from reaching what you want? Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and chief thought partner of crayon Leadership, discusses how to look at today and to launch into the weekend with something life changing.
We often feel our mind is overworked. “We just can’t think today…” or “Let me think…”, we tell ourselves. Usually it is because we are not relaxed and we are feeling stressed. What instructions are you giving your mind, your subconscious? Have you given it the right and best conditions to be ready to receive […]
Joe Dutkiewicz, founder and Chief Though Partner of Crayon Leadership, steps through Adhesion Thinking. Adhesion Thinking is critical to ensuring successful thoughts becoming uplifting solutions. After good ideas are shared and raised by the inner circle, normal go-to advisors and hierarchies, there are still two more critical steps often overlooked. We often want an idea […]
What number of good thoughts each day are sabotaged by ourselves and others? We establish boundaries for conversations and problem solving that rarely surpass the norm. Our thinking remains somewhere between stage 2 and stage 3 groupthink as we look not to “rock the ship”. APEX thinking leaders involve the skeptics to make their good […]
Do you lead with your position title when you are asked what you do rather than your mission or what brings meaning to your life? People living at the top of their living don’t hold onto a badge. They are known for what they do. What we do is sometimes blocked. There are 72 invisible […]
When are your thoughts at their best? When you nurture them and foster their growth. Too often our thoughts fly away like dried up leaves in a wind current never really to be seen again. When we get the idea good for work or in your personal time, make sure to share it at the […]
In school we are taught when writing to end each sentence with a period or another punctuation item, leave a space, and then start the next sentence. In similar fashion, we look to speak in sentences and complete thoughts. Complete thoughts are often overlooked and we speak crazy fast. When we do, we insert crutch […]
Whether it is our personal lives or in the workplace, we are trying to fly through the thoughts. What happens? We aren’t growing. We skip the moments to pause and develop the needed talents with each other to reach our personal or business destiny. Learn to capture the “Ummm” time between sentences to pause and […]
We are the makers of ourselves. We are easily distracted and have become lazier, allowing ourselves to think even less these days. Gone are the days where people would be around a table and foster deep conversation about the meaning of thoughts and learn from the lessons gained from experiences. We can’t be happy if […]
Our thoughts make up who we are. If our focused energy is not directed to what we want but directed to the next shiny thing to come along, we will never accomplish a more rewarding life. We will be stuck somewhere between “My life sucks” and “I’m great and You are not”. Breathe deeply and […]
There is a special word you need to have to have an awesome weekend and move up the stage building more effective relationships. You cannot lead others without this one word (ok, one phrase). Today, I will share that word phrase and a fun tool to use with others! You can’t reach your dreams without […]
Everyday, we have a choice to make. Keep doing the same things OR make a change and do it differently. Do you expect to realize a future where you truly live your values and take actions to reach your long-term or legacy goals? Why do today’s immaterial tasks outweigh the actions we need to take […]
What happens when we face struggle, pain, loss, rejection, death of a loved one, anger, harm and so much more? We shut down. Our mind tries to make sense of the situation. Prepare now by understanding the one important key that APEX thinking leaders use to avoid that shut down because they embrace the gift […]
When do we feel alone? When we have lost the feeling of love; being loved by someone else. Why does love not appear? It might be that we are focused on the pain instead. Love exists all around us. It is a constant. Sometimes we are blocked by our environment. APEX thinking people know this. […]
People sometimes display a different nature at work than at home. At home, they more than likely will nurture and strengthen their children. At work, they don’t feel people measure up and verbally note that in front of others. They may treat family worse than colleagues. Why the difference? We tend to forget what we […]
