These videos are excerpts from group coaching sessions I do as part of a livecast series for the social entrepreneurs who are part of our Joyful Impact Accelerator. Along with the videos there are worksheets that go with each session. We wanted to share this material with as many of you as want to make use of it. I hope these sessions can generate some deep insights and breakthroughs for you in your journey to more fully answer your own call to serve. Additional sessions will be posted every other week to the Joyful Impact blog as the livecast series makes it way through the 12-session curriculum. To download the worksheet for this session, click here. And if you missed Session 2 from two weeks ago, you can catch it here.
What is your highest expression of your self? If...
These videos are excerpts from group coaching sessions I do as part of a livecast series for the social entrepreneurs who are part of our Joyful Impact Accelerator. Along with the videos there are worksheets that go with each session. We wanted to share this material with as many of you as want to make use of it. I hope these sessions can generate some deep insights and breakthroughs for you in your journey to more fully answer your own call to serve. Additional sessions will be posted every other week to the Joyful Impact blog as the livecast series makes it way through the 12-session curriculum. To download the worksheet for this session, click here. And if you missed Session 1 from two weeks ago, you can catch it here.
Too many of us have learned to cope with a...
This video and the worksheet that goes along with it is about connecting your ultimate vision for making change in the world with the kind of productive routine that gives you a sense of fulfillment and progress--and yes, joy!-- every day.
It’s so easy to get overwhelmed by all the competing priorities and demands in your world that you feel like your work is never done and you’re always a day late and a dollar short across all the areas of your life. No matter how...
With this post I'm sharing the first segment of a 12-session coaching curriculum called "Understanding and Evolving Your Psychology." This is a coaching sequence that we use with the social entrepreneurs in the Joyful Impact Accelerator. It's all about taking a self-guided journey towards greater insight about what truly makes you tick. Getting familiar with a working model of human psychology and self development gives you the chance to re-wire yourself to better advance your goals, break negative behavior patterns, and positively engage with other people and world around you.
This kind of insight can be valuable for anybody, but it's especially important for all of us who feel that deeper...
If you're someone with a calling to make the world a better place, whether you're giving money away as a philanthropist, raising money as a social entrepreneur, or just getting started on your journey, chances are that whatever you're not able to see about yourself and the systems around you is getting in the way of realizing your full potential for creating more impact and more joy.
What I want to share with you in this post is a framework for thinking about levels of personal development, and how this relates to doing the work of social change, particularly if you are trying address systemic inequalities that you yourself are not directly suffering from.
You could think of these five levels of personal...
As someone with a calling to bring as much impact and as much joy as you can into the world, how do you build up your ability to take more positive action, more consistently, from one moment to the next?
That's the question this post explores, looking at findings from the last 50 years of research on willpower and self regulation.
A helpful place to start is with the model that taking action depends on lining up our knowledge (what to do), our skills (how to do it), and our mindset...
What would make 2021 an EXTRAORDINARY year for you? Could it be that you're not exactly sure?
If you've got a calling to make the world a better place, chances are you've got some compelling visions and dreams for the year to come. But have you actually asked yourself a powerful enough set of questions about your impact and your joy in the coming year, and given yourself the gift of reflecting on the answers?
Here's what I've found for myself, and for the funders and social entrepreneurs I coach: for all of us with a calling to make the world a better place, spending as little as 60 minutes just once a year going over the questions I'm going to share with you in this post is a game changer.
No question, there's plenty of work you need to do on a daily basis to serve at your highest level and reach your greatest levels of joy and personal fulfillment--but getting clarity on the fundamental questions in this self-assessment is the foundation...
If you want to show up differently in philanthropy and work creatively with others to make truly lasting, systemic change on the issues that matter most I hope this post will speak to you.
It's no secret that the last few years have seen an increasingly public critique of philanthropy, from Rob Reich (Just Giving), to Edgar Villanueva (Decolonizing Wealth) and Anand Giridharadas (Winners Take All). All of these books are well worth reading closely, whatever seat you occupy in and around the world of philanthropy.
At the heart of these critiques is an indictment of the whole structure of philanthropy and the power dynamics that pervade it. As Edgar Villanueva puts it: "The field of philanthropy is a living anachronism. It is (we are) like a...
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