Last week my classmates and I practiced creative visualization. A very fun and exciting excercise of looking into future we want to see come to fruition. The scene is set 3 years from now. Each of us shared our hopes and dreams. Two stories that really resonated with me the most were Heather Meyer and Tim Coffin’s. Both of them reflected on positive outcomes while acknowledging some difficulties along the way.

Heather wrote about the time she found herself back at MCAD to compete her Masters in Sustainable Design and finding her purpose in the program.

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP KIT

End of semester is nearing (one more week eek) and we are working on tool kit for leadership. Below you will find some of the most impactful lessons I got introduced to over the course of the Creative Leadership class. Some are videos that I find very inspiring for when I feel down and need a pick me up reminder. Others are useful exercises and readings to keep me on track.

Weekly Blog Review

This past week we got to do some experiential learning and practice creative leadership in a safe and trusted group settings. We both facilitated and participated in guided exercises and we sought and provided personal feedback to our peers. Therefore the blog reviews I picked for this week reflect back on some of the questions posed and lessons learned from the group studies.

Firstly, my trusted and favorite leadership blog Seth Godin’s blog.

When you type too fast while trying to catch up with your flying thoughts word blog turns into word bog,  and then bog become the perfect metaphor for how you feel and what you’re about to write about.

Bog the noun, means wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body, marsh, swamp. To bog down (bog the verb/cause) means  an entity or an object to become stuck in mud or wet ground. 

TAKING A MOMENT TO PAUSE AND SMELL THE ROSES…

As every other blog review post I start with my favorite. Seth Godin’s blog. This week I emailed my professor with one of his posts titled The thing about maps and proclaimed how coincidental and intriguing it is that Seth’s blog posts overlap and complement the lessons we are working on in class! I was delighted! Of course, the reality is I’m more in-tune with my surroundings,

Week 10! 2/3’s of my first semester already underway. Too fast and not long enough at the same time. This week we are focusing on finding the inner “leader” voice. And to do so, we ran the SWOT exercise. Here is what I came up with.

WEEKLY BLOG AND READING REFLECTIONS

This week I choose to shake things up with my blog selection and cover 2 of the blogs I haven’t made any reflections in the past.

The first one is Seth Godin’s blog. I am consistently impressed with his narrative and style of writing. It gets to the core of my existence. These past 2 weeks Seth talked about several things. Like beads on a string,

Blog Posts worth noting for the week

This week was little crazy to say the least. I am traveling for work, hopping from one country to another every 2 days. While it sounds really fun (it is most of the time) it is really exhausting. The natural balance and sleep schedule get completely messed up. On top of it the expectation is (not sure if this is of others or myself,

Turning Tables!

I am really enjoying my weekly assignments and exploring different resources and references in quest for my own leadership style. Last week I blogged about blogs and this week I’m tasked with blogging about my fellow classmates and their reflections.  Whilst the processes of reading everyone’s posts I realized that some of the same names keep popping up to the top of my list. Their witty voices and use of visuals in presenting their personal goals are somewhat aligned with mine,