You ever have someone you truly admired in your life currently living or have passed on? Today’s episode we talk about how we can honor our past and present mentors. How we can honor their teachings with our own reflection and actions. Enjoy the cast: https://anchor.fm/shawn-ward/episodes/Rest-and-Reflect-Day-10-Honoring-Your-Mentors-etbo0q ✌🏻 Shawn
The Well Podcast: Reflect and Reset Day 7 – Our Scars Tell the Story
Today we talk about the relationships we have with our mental and physical scars we’ve accumulated over the years. There is beauty in those scars we have. Deep reserves of learning that caused them. They’re also great trophies that draw the interest of our colleagues around us. Others are curious to ask where they came... Continue Reading →
Reflect and Reset: Day 2 Attitude of Gratitude
Let’s take the exercise from yesterday, one step further by giving it a purpose. In this exercise let’s take all the things we’ve been grateful for over the years, in no order of importance, and for 15 minutes write them all out. The idea is not to just write about the good stuff you’re thankful... Continue Reading →
Stoic Moment
Today's moment sounds simple enough. But for many of us it's not. Like at all, not easy. I have learned starting my day with some type of gratitude exercise though, is a great start. There is so much we take for granted to be grateful about because we don't really pause to think about it... Continue Reading →
7 Point Saturday 5/2/2020
Little late on the 7 this weekend today. But, I wanted to read them again. New month for posting this week. I will try to have in each 7, each week, something that applies to personal and work in my pick of articles to send your way. Let’s head down the rabbit hole Alice! First... Continue Reading →
A Good Day?
Might be hard to come by these days, but maybe not. I went for a long run yesterday and saw a lot more that I was aware of due to this isolation to be thankful for. After taking in 7.6 miles of rural country, 6 herds of deer, countless Canadian geese (a couple that tried... Continue Reading →
UP Your Game
You know what comes with success? FUN! A lot of it! And I don’t mean the kind of fun that most would think like materialistic fun. But, people fun. The journey is fun. Anytime you can live life to the fullest including at work or during your hardest stretches, your game is right where it... Continue Reading →
Sometimes It’s a Shuffle: A Self-Reflection Out-loud or My 401st Post!
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 →
The Art of Savoring
Remember that perfect piece of cheesecake you had that one time? How about that perfectly cooked steak? Or, that incredible juicy handful of blueberries that were just the right amount of sweet? You were savoring that moment and feeling. Savoring is akin to having the equivalent of an out of body experience. Stepping away from... Continue Reading →
The Unlock
A Farm In Kentucky I’m always searching for it. Even when I’m sure I already have it. For me it’s about the infinite game when it comes to what I can learn about my potential, not a finite one. This space here on IBtP is the output of that and holds me accountable to learning... Continue Reading →