Holstee Reflection Cards I have an exercise that I do every now and then to flex the creative side of my brain. I use a deck of cards that I was a backer to for Holstee. They’re called “reflection” cards. You can get them with many different companies these days. It helps sometimes when you’re... Continue Reading →
7 Point Saturday On the Eve of Saturday
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I started a 10 week course on Coursea that is provided by Yale on happiness. My hope is to not only improve my personal happiness (I had a score of 3.21 out of 5 which I would say is happy most of the time) and those of others. This work... Continue Reading →
Looking @ 2020
Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com We've all just came out of the other side of 2019. How we feeling? I usually make it habit to take the last week of the old year looking back and take the first week of the new year looking ahead. I take all that, and I reflect. I'm... Continue Reading →
7 Point Saturday On a Monday: Week of 12/7/19
Starting My Week With Learning Sorry about the two day late post on this one. Hope you enjoy my learns from last week! 1. Show up. Just show up. It takes action to build a habit. Sitting around hoping it will just start is what we think most of the time it takes. A new... Continue Reading →
7 Point Saturday 9/14/19
Here's the 7 points fort this week. Three were absolutely ones that I am moving into my daily life and learned a lot from. Enjoy a break from the normal cycle of your life or work with this week's offerings. 1. New book I’m stoked to start called Own Your Weird by Jason Zook lands... Continue Reading →
Free to Focus? Hard to Do.
It's completely like climbing the hill in the picture above. Getting our most important things done seems insurmountable and impossible at times to do with all the competing priorities that are in front of us from work, friends/family, and loved ones. More products, more speed, more stress and we're trying to fit it all into... Continue Reading →
Be Real, the Best Thing You Can Be
Photo by Fox on Pexels.com One of my triggers would have to be when I hear, "He/She is a natural born leader." New flash, they're not born that way. Everyone at one point or another has had to learn how to be the incredible leader they are recognized for. They were not born that way... Continue Reading →
Being a Designer
I've had the incredible opportunity and experience to see great design work come to life. There's nothing like seeing something evolve, grow, and come to life with simplicity. Something that serves just about every feeling possible you have. Every idea of perfection satisfied. Something that makes you just hold up, pause, and just be perplexed... Continue Reading →
Going to the Well: Episode 1
I just published the first episode of my new podcast! Listen to Going To The Well on Anchor https://anchor.fm/shawn-ward/episodes/Going-To-The-Well-Episode-1---Vision--Purpose--and-My-Main-Thing-e2thao Hello! Super excited about this next platform and learning I'll be on as I tackle podcasting as the next addition to my work here on In-between the Pages. I hope you enjoy it. This first episode... Continue Reading →
Multiplication is My Kind of Math
All-in. How much are we invested in what we want? Surface level isn't going to cut it. Just a little isn't going to cut it. Our whole selves, that's getting closer. Average, again, not going to cut it. Our success and achieving what we want for the new year is going to require more than... Continue Reading →