by coachseattle | Feb 15, 2025 | Leadership / team / organization, Personal growth & development
Vertical Development – Sense Making My dad wanted to give my daughter his new walker. He said, “It’s too fancy for me, and it seems Julie showed great interest in it when she put it together.” This highlights how a 96-year-old makes sense of the world. Like my dad, we...
by coachseattle | Feb 5, 2025 | Leadership / team / organization, Personal growth & development
WorkPlace Big 5 I am in the process of getting certified with the WorkPlace Big 5 and enjoying what I am learning. It’s a personality assessment that explores traits that appear in a correlated set of behaviors. The five traits are Need for stability, Extraversion,...
by coachseattle | Feb 3, 2025 | Health and wellness
Lichu, Spring, and Meditation Today (2/3/25), Lichun (立春) marked the beginning of spring in the Chinese calendar. Based on Earth’s ecliptic plane degrees, it is the first day of the new year. This is a time to focus on balancing the body’s energy (Qi) and preparing...
by coachseattle | Jan 29, 2025 | Reflection
Lunar New Year The Year of the Wood Snake has started today and is expected to bring a year of transformation, renewal, and growth. Wood is one of the five elements in Yi-Jing (I Ching), and Snake is the sixth animal in the Chinese zodiac. Combining them offers...
by coachseattle | Jan 18, 2025 | Social Media, Technology
Banning TikTok As of this morning, TikTok is no longer showing up as one of the top free social networking apps. But the top one is still a Chinese app – 小红书 – RedNote. The US national’s concern that the data collected in TikTok will be missed is similar...
