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Every Sunday,

I send a newsletter by email

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I don't post all of those newsletters on my website...but here are a few.

PS you can subscribe to my Sunday Love Letter here.

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How NOT to Get Swamped by It All

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Business, Capitalism, and Money Guilt. A Cure.

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Leadership

for when your contribution or leadership isn’t being acknowledged…

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What if Trashing

What if…Trashing is about Redistributing Power in our Community?

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Procrastination: 4 counterintuitive insights that might help you feel a LOT better about yourself

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Clear The Way! (A Culture-Making Tool.)

This is your Sunday Love Letter.  In 2017, after spending nine months in Trinidad...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a future in which we all flourish
Are you in?
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on “lying to ourselves”. (I’m not so sure we do.)

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Are You On Your Own Team?

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Dear Culture Maker: Do you want power?

Culture-making is like breathing: we're doing it even when we don't know we're...
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nope, ‘Queen’ is not a feminist business model

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How To Get Free

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On Culture Breaking and Culture Making. For when you’re frustrated with other change-makers.

"All you do is criticize and point out problems," the email read, "but...
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Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a business that generates money AND justice

Let’s create a future in which we all flourish.

Are you in?

Dear Multi-Passionate Maker,⁠⠀⁠
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Maybe you don't have Shiny Object Syndrome.⁠⠀⁠
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Maybe you've been studying & practicing all of these modalities because you're developing a rich body of work, across time.⁠⠀⁠
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(No maybe about it.)⁠⠀⁠
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Multi-passionate professionals often get told that they're "scattered" & need to focus.⁠⠀⁠
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They then internalize negative messages insisting that  their orientation towards lifelong learning, curiosity & creativity is a barrier to success.⁠⠀⁠
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IT'S NOT.⁠⠀⁠
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It's how we build the deep work & creative solutions needed for these urgent times.⁠⠀⁠
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Often, when I work with multi-passionate professionals, it's wildly obvious to me that they're collecting tools, synthesizing across traditions -- and making a whole new thing! -- in order to solve complex social problems.⁠⠀⁠
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They've been gathering all.the.tools.⁠⠀⁠
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You know what all those tools add up to? ⁠⠀⁠
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A practice. A way of doing things. A framework. Your unique process.⁠⠀⁠
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***You have a methodology.*** ⁠⠀⁠
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So let's build language for it and NAME IT, specifically.⁠⠀⁠
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Naming your method makes it tangible AND SALEABLE.⁠⠀⁠
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Now it now gets a lot easier to explain it to other people...⁠⠀⁠
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...and becomes more obvious why they might want to work with you :)⁠⠀⁠
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Once you name it, you substantiate it. ⁠⠀⁠
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****Including to yourself.****⁠⠀⁠
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Now YOU can see how everything you've trained in has led up to this, has prepared you for this work.⁠⠀⁠
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⁠Because, dear Multi-passionate Maker, you're NOT spinning your wheels or getting distracted by shiny things.⁠⠀⁠
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You're growing the solutions & institutions of the future.⁠⠀⁠
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Let's make sure you've got the language to describe them. ⁠⠀⁠
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love + justice,⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠
Kelly⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠
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Copywriting for Culture Makers is now enrolling.⁠
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link in bio @kelly.diels to learn more -- and thank you⁠
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Power can be a creative, life-giving force for good.⁠
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But it's my experience -- personally, and in working with culture-making leaders for more than a decade -- that we often:⁠
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🌺don't see ourselves as powerful⁠
🌺don't want other people to think we're trying to grow power (lest we seem selfish or dangerous)⁠
🌺struggle to see ourselves as "leaders" ⁠
🌺hesitate to truly take responsibility for our own power and impact ⁠
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Why? Because we believe power is bad. ⁠
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If we believe power is bad, obviously it's going to be hard to see it in ourselves. ⁠
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(Hello Mirror, Meet Face. I'm talking to myself here, too.)⁠
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It's going to be even harder to deliberately grow it and steward it.⁠
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**And why wouldn't we believe that power is bad? **⁠
Most of us have direct experience with power being used against us.⁠
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But power doesn't have to mean abuse.⁠
It doesn't have to be mean oppression.⁠
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Nor does that have to be the way we use it.⁠
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Power can be a transformative force for good -- one that we use to create new realities for ourselves and each other.⁠
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We can use power to protect ourselves and each other, and to grow a future in which we all flourish.⁠
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That kind of power can take three forms (h/t @BreneBrown in #DareToLead):⁠
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❣️Power to -- our ability to make things happen⁠
❣️Power with -- our abiltiy to come together as small teams and large groups and leverage our power (this has an exponential effect)⁠
❣️Power within -- our internal spirit/source/capacity⁠
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And so...I encourage all of us to get free of the notion that power is one hegemonic, destructive thing.⁠
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I encourage us to stop avoiding and under-using our power.⁠
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Instead, let's cultivate and grow and SHARE our power.⁠
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Because doing that will change our lives (let's flourish!!) AND undermine the systems based on that other nefarious kind of power.⁠
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Let's step into our life-giving power and use it to change EVERYTHING.⁠
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PS I trust you with power and resources⁠
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#WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠
www.kellydiels.com⁠
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Time to incubate an idea is essential for output…and allowing yourself that time is NOT procrastination.⁠
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And actual procrastination — as in, you have the idea fully cooked but do not want to sit your ass down and do it — might not always be a bad thing. ⁠
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In fact, procrastination can be a source of good information. ⁠
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In Antifragile, for example, Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about the value of procrastination for a writer: ⁠
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“If I defer writing a section, it must be eliminated. This is simple ethics: Why should I try to fool people by writing about a subject for which I feel no natural drive?”⁠
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I’ve started using this as a point of discernment. ⁠
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Sometimes I’ll outline a book or an essay…and then do.not.want.to.write one chapter or section. Often it’s a topic I feel obliged to cover rather than excited to consider. ⁠
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So, Taleb suggested, maybe my procrastination is instructive. ⁠
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Maybe if I don’t want to write about it, maybe it’s not for me to write. ⁠
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Maybe it doesn’t really need to be written by me nor included in my essay/chapter/blog post/book. ⁠
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Maybe I need to reclaim and honour my no. ⁠
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**No maybe about it**⁠
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So now, if I’m procrastinating hard on a topic and it’s not fear of going into hard places but simple nope-don’t-wanna-do-it, I delete that section or chapter or letter and move on to what does interest me and what I DO want to write. ⁠
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Because procrastination can be GREAT information. ⁠
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Listen to it. Leverage it.⁠
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