strong offer friday

January 23, 2015 in Uncategorized

I think it is important to make strong offers that are not attached either to people responding well or poorly to them. It’s just as easy to be swayed by positive response as it is by negative. Either one may take you off your strongest intention by influencing your next step. Your job is to do the work, not get the audience to love you, or care if they hate you.

When that gets personal, that’s when detachment really counts. That’s when remembering The Four Agreements means something. Deep breath.

From My Orange Desk

I heard today from people in Australia and Iran and Ireland and beyond about my latest letter, “From My Orange Desk.” If you’d like to receive it every other Thursday, go here to sign up for it.

You know I love teachers. I love to support their work in the world.

And I am in love with this 11th grade teacher who is celebrating her 25th birthday by asking for book donations for her classroom.

Let’s help her! (Update: Here’s info on how to send books by mail to her for her classroom)

Thanks to Liz Amaya-Fernandez who pointed me to this great birthday wish.

(Image based on this book).

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.