programmed by the Department of Commerce and Trade Association. This was day one for the 20 delegates who were selected from 300 to attend a two week startup training throughout the U.S. to deliver a two hour workshop on the pulse of the DC startup scene to 20 delegates from Russia and Ukraine. After a short visit in the office, I jumped on another metro into the heart of D.C. Then, packed up and made the 8:30 shuttle to the metro into my office. I then put the finishing touches on my slide deck for my upcoming presentation, from my laptop, in bed.Īfter a shower and shave, I walked Luke for ten minutes. I woke up at 6:15am on my own with alarms going off afterwards. In a weird way today, April 20, 2017, has been a perfect day. Well, enough procrastination, here is mine: Well, today I went through to grade their assignments and was blown away at how serious many of them took the assignment and how detailed their day on Aplooked. My business, life, and “busyness” got in the way. Several weeks later though, as I prompted and delivered this assignment to my class on March 31st, I said I would write one with them. Well, I did what I do best: I procrastinated on my own professional development and growth. I wanted to incorporate this into my First Year Leadership class at GW to get the students to dream big while providing as much clarity to their future as possible.So, I told you I listened to this 4 times, right? I wrote the prompts in my phone for two reasons: She has even done this for herself, tucked the note away, and will look at it ever 12–24 months. She has done this activity with a variety of students and professionals over the last ten years and she now is starting to receive texts, emails, and phone calls on how much has come true. The outcome: the more detail you provide and the bigger you dream, the greater the chance it will come true. Continuing to prompt them to keep thinking bigger. She asked them to go into detail and get clear about what their day looks like.Īnd the list goes on and on until you go to bed that night. She has them close their eyes (she literally walks you through this in the episode) and envision their life exactly 10 years from now, to the day. This is where she said one of her assignments is to help her senior students design their life. I turned the sound all the way up and closed out everything else on my phone. Then she started describing how she teaches her class and developed a curriculum for a full semester. As Tim and Debbie were talking about half way through the episode, Debbie shared that she teaches a college course on how to go after your dream job and design the life you want. In fact, this podcast has almost 300 episodes and goes back five plus years before podcasts we’re really a “thing.”Īnyway, to get into why I’m writing this let me paraphrase a soundbite that I re-listened 4 times in one sitting (or standing - I may have been on the metro). However, something about Tim’s show notes describing this as his best episode yet (clever Tim!) and listening to the first five minutes (after the sponsors pitches of course) I was hooked to Debbie’s wisdom - and to be honest, her soothing voice.ĭebbie is a creator, designer, and entrepreneur who runs her very own successful podcast called Design Matters. I’ll admit it though - I quickly bypass the episodes of the guests I don’t recognize - I do this with a lot of podcasts. I’m a fan of Tim’s podcast and listen to at least one or two of his episodes a month. About a month ago in early March, while on my commute into the office, I put my headphones in and pressed play on one of Tim Ferriss’s new podcast episodes with Debbie Millman.
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