by dustin | Jun 29, 2019 | Creativity, Personal Brand, Personal Development
There’s a big difference between our physical voice and our metaphorical one. If you use your physical voice too much, you lose it. The only way to find your metaphorical voice is to use it. Don’t conflate the two. Challenge: How can you regularly practice...
by dustin | Sep 11, 2014 | brand you, leadership, Personal Brand, Personal Development, Professional Development, Success
Perception is reality. More specifically, YOUR perception is YOUR reality. Understanding this is critical to how you view circumstances and your life in general. We do not interact directly with reality. We filter everything through our senses. We take the empirical...
by dustin | Jul 19, 2013 | brand you, Dustin's Box of Crazy, Personal Brand, Personal Development
What You See is What You Get. This is a common phrase used to describe software programs that allow you to edit something and simultaneously see how it will look in the end. What You See Is What You Get is often shortened to WYSIWYG (pronouced “Wizzy-Wig”)...
by dustin | Jun 24, 2013 | Human Resources, leadership, managing people, Personal Brand
I was thinking today of leaders with very different approaches, both effective in their own way. The first approached leadership like a landscaper approaches his work. He would try and plant people in the area they could best grow. The right environment of grounding...
by dustin | Nov 13, 2012 | brainstorming, brand you, Creativity, Ideas, inspiration, leadership, Personal Brand, Personal Development, Professional Development, Purpose, Success
I have often described myself as a creative thinker. It’s not an exercise in self-aggrandizement, it just happened to be the quickest way I could sum up how I love brainstorming, white boards, quizzical questions and looking at things differently....
by dustin | Oct 30, 2012 | brand you, Creativity, human spirit, inspiration, Personal Brand, Personal Development
“Pfft. That’s not believable.” I have found myself saying this during a movie or play that just didn’t ring true. And if we’re honest with ourselves, at the beginning of ANY performance we could cross our arms and furrow our brows in...
