You have a lot to say. Maybe you've started to gain recognition from the great work you're doing within your chosen expertise of corporate development or graphic design or bee behavior. You see the infinite flow of blog posts and social media chatter and you think maybe you're missing out. That's when you ask a marketing professional like me whether it's time for you to start a blog. And then you ask me how.

Life's not all uphill. Unless you make it that way

Whether you're making big decisions or small ones, you've got to set goals. And to define the goals that truly represent what's in your core, what you're meant to do, you have to dig deep. These four steps will help start you on the path to where you're meant to go.

Building up resilience, building up our tolerance for failure, allows us to choose to be vulnerable and authentic. It’s what allows us to say something in that meeting; to question assumptions; to inspire the team to try something new; invest ourselves in a mission or even in another person

Authenticity. Vulnerability. Resilience. I believe these are the pillars of leadership at work, that they’re deeply important to our lives today, and that they’re inextricably interconnected. If we want to lead, or if we want lead fully realized lives, we have to embrace these concepts

The thing is, being authentic is hard. It feels like a risk. Whether you’re deciding to value human-centric language over SEO data, or being more real with your teams than perhaps you were raised to do, it feels like a risk. And a risk means potential for failure. And failure is scary, right? Or maybe not…. Hope you’ll read my next blogs about SXSW lessons on vulnerability and resilience. It's all tied together

In contrast to what you may have heard, holacracy is not anarchy and it’s not really “bossless.” It’s an organizational structure based on the work, not the people. It’s grown as a response to the theory that that if productivity in companies tends to go down as the employee count goes up, empowering every employee with some form of decision-making reverses this trend – largely because the top-down bottleneck of approvals is avoided