Tag: Mindfulness

  • Your RAS at Work: How Leaders are Limited to Only See What They Believe

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re furthering our discussion on the reticular activating system and applying it to leaders. We’ll discuss how this powerful…

  • How Your Brain Shapes Your Life, And How You Can Shape Your Brain

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re exploring the subtle yet powerful driver of our behaviors, the reticular activating system: what it is, why it…

  • Making Your New Normal, Normal

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re exploring the fifth and final phase of the human behavior change continuum, Maintenance, to round out our understanding…

  • Putting in the Work Even When Motivation Is Long Gone

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re exploring the fourth phase of the human behavior change continuum, Action, to better understand what is truly necessary…

  • Turning “I Want To” into “Here’s the Plan”

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re exploring the third phase of the human behavior change continuum, preparation, to better understand what is truly necessary…

  • Are You Sitting in “Maybe”?

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re exploring the second phase of the human behavior change continuum to better understand what drives our ability to…

  • When Setting Goals Feels Like Too Big of Goal

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re leaning into the classic new year mindset of goal setting, but from the angle of the real science…

  • See you in 2026!

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today, we take one final moment for reflection in 2025. “Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to…

  • The Business Case for Listening: Why C-Suite Leaders Must Hear From Their Customers Directly

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. we’re focusing on a deceptively simple but deeply strategic leadership move: making sure the most senior voices in your organization…

  • The In-Group / Out-Group Trap at Work: Building Belonging for Real Performance

    At Growth By Design, we believe intentional choices lead to impactful growth, whether you’re shaping a thriving organization or a meaningful life. Here, we provide the practical information, tools, and frameworks to get you there. Today we’re continuing our examination of in-groups and out-groups, exploring how these natural patterns show up on the job, how…