Action Not Apathy
This week has been all about preparation, preparation, preparation.
I’m deep in the final details ahead of a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop I’m facilitating with a marketing agency later this week. That means rehearsing and sense-checking all the prompts, pressure-testing exercises, and designing a session that helps their team work through dynamics, direction and daily habits they can take ownership of to create the environment they want. It’s the kind of work I love most: creating the conditions for people to think together, surface the deeper issues, and collectively create solutions with clear ownership.
Beyond this, I’ve been following digital discourse around recent political conversations, and noticing how quickly moments of systemic uncertainty turn into complete resignation. So many comments along the lines of “nothing will ever change.”
I don’t believe that.
Change doesn’t arrive on its own, shiny and new all perfectly manufactured from some group of ‘other people’, it’s something messy, imperfect and most often one piece at a time that we all actively design - and build - together. Us. It’s easy to get stuck, wheels-spinning just critiquing broken systems forever, but real progress and forward action comes from imagining alternatives…and building them. Messy, imperfect and bit by bit as they are.
So that’s where I keep reorienting my energy right now: in creativity, workshops, real-world digging-into-the-unknown discussions, and the belief that better futures are shaped through action, not apathy.
Until Next Time…
Surfacing hopeful recs, links and loose threads from beyond the algo…
Phoebe Dodds’s 100 Social Connections Challenge is a must-read/must-do if you haven’t already. As someone who’s generally challenge-averse, you gotta do it: The 100 Connections Challenge: how to change your life in 2026
The absolute glee of re-finding anideaforawebsite over on are.na A website that can only be visited on leap days? Brilliant.
A longish read but worth it if you haven’t before: The Road to Self-Renewal “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
Not at all new nor trending but happy ten years to this ole classic and inventor of the perfect line “you got really good taste // you know how to cut and paste”