Tag: purpose

• Walk out and walk on.

  

  Departures and new beginnings. Was your year like that? Mine sure was. Some unintentional, some deliberate. But that’s a story for another day. One thing is sure, I’m going into the new year with these words: walk out and walk on. Both actions. Not just one, without the other. In her book, Walk Out and…

  Claire Maria Ford

  December 31, 2020

  New Year

  connection, Margaret J. Wheatley, mission, purpose, resolve, social change, walk out and walk on

• When you’re aiming for the moon…

  

  Beresheet may have crashed, but for a moment we raised our eyes to the heavens. The headline of the Times of Israel article  (first in links below) couldn’t help but grab my attention. I wondered what the article would say about ‘raising our eyes to the heavens’ and began to read. I was so glad…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 12, 2019

  dreams, failure, goal setting, growth, growth mindset, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, Uncategorized

  hopes, learning, life, life lessons, mental health, motivation, personal development, philosophy, psychology, purpose, reflections, school, wishes, work

• When Initiative Is MIA: What to do about it?

  

  I had a wonderful opportunity to take initiative on the weekend. And I didn’t. No, no, of course I won’t obsess about it (not!) It’s just that this weekend, I was preparing an activity for a class this week about initiative because a student and I had a discussion that ended with the question: how…

  Claire Maria Ford

  March 25, 2019

  employee engagement

  assumptions, employee engagement, initiative, intervention, job satisfaction, managers, meaningful work, purpose