What’s Gone Well Today Themes
Here are the original Metaphors and Themes for communication and collaboration.
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Activating your radar
To experience greater success both in personal life and in business life, be more sensitive or aware of what’s going on around you.
Breaking out
Getting used to asking questions, helps to break out of old communication habits, ruts, boredom, routine, slumps… It takes a relentless spirit to really break out.
Building momentum
How can we become more comfortable and effective at engaging with others? As people share authentically, momentum develops.
Building bridges
Conversation is about connections. Asking good, caring questions opens up common ground, new pathways, and brings people closer.
Celebrate
Celebrating accomplishments, marking a special occasion or connection are ways of building a positive, growth-oriented, and hopefully ‘fun’ attitude or approach to life.
Discovering Intimacy
Making deeper connections in faster, fresher deeper ways-let our guard down and show what excites us.
Linking
Finding commonality, common ground–sharing and expanding on ideas and feedback with others.
Making choices-decision making, choosing our paths
Understanding and liberating oneself from old hooks based on past experiences may be a first step in more fluid decision making.
Opening to multiple possibilities
Taking advantage of the resources and opportunities, finding room for options– the unconsidered.
Panning for gold
Being aware – keeping your eyes open –being mindful of successes and possibilities.
Reaching
Taking next step up by stretching forward, challenging yourself into the discomfort of the unknown.
Refreshing
Stepping back, seeing what’s working–taking a break, finding balance and pleasure,
Reflections
Making sense of a situation, looking for the meaning-empathizing-seeing our role in creating our day.
Seeing in a fresh way
Discovering new views in familiar territory. Gaining a sense of awe and wonder at life around us.
Shifting – heart transformation
Foundation of curiosity and empathy that is the key to engaging empathetically with others.
Taking flight
Being at that point of creating possibility–willing to plant the seeds for future being.
Taking a risk
Exploring attitudes and comfort zones around risk. How to use risk to maximize your day.
Turning on a tap
Going wholeheartedly towards what brings you alive. Helping by removing obstacles and exploring next steps.
Using a new lens
Choosing a new perspective by thinking differently about a situation