Any significant achievement involves a huge amount of effort, right?
Breaking a bad habit, fixing a bad relationship, completing a complex
project --they all take a long time and require hard work, correct?
The surprising truth is that a playful approach gets almost any task
accomplished both faster and better. What’s needed is not more
drudgery, but more creativity -- not more discipline, but more
flexibility -- not more plodding, but more dancing.
But where to find
the creativity, gain the flexibility, and learn to dance?
That’s where
One Hat At A Time momentum cards come in. Anyone can use this deck in
a variety of ways to stop procrastinating and get moving, to stop
feeling bogged down and start feeling energized.
The creators of One Hat understand that intellectual knowledge of how to change and
progress is not enough. Practical suggestions for new ways to look at things and simple
actions that will get the ball rolling are much more effective. And that’s exactly what
this deck of hats provides.
Pick a card, any card, and you’re on your way to moving forward with all the energy
you’ve wanted. You’ll soon discover that One Hat At A Time is a powerful means to blasting
through obstacles and opening up opportunities in your life.
Christie Latona and Laura Lind-Blum have
created a deck of cards with 27 whimsical drawings of
hats—yes—hats. What a fun way to introduce clients or teams to
new perspectives. On one side of each card is a colorful
drawing of a hat, flip it over and find powerful questions to
prompt reflection and discussion.
I introduced the deck to a colleague who was
stalled on her business plan. She immediately chose the jesters
hat. We explored what meaning the hat held for her and what it
would be to create a business plan from “the jester.” The
exercise gave her permission to think differently and to bring
more of her essential self to her business. This simple
exercise opened the door to some powerful coaching. Don’t worry
about coming up with creative ways to use the cards, the deck
comes with a guidebook packed with suggestions. One Hat At A
Time™ provides a fun way to flush out new perspectives or as
their creators say “create new hattitudes.”
—
Marcy
Nelson-Garrison, Coaching Tools Column, 11/01/04
The One Hat folks - Christie Latona and
Laura-Lind Blum were a big hit at the ICF Conference. There
were crowns and hardhats everywhere, even the conference MC
played with them.
What they have created is a delightful deck of cards that
are powerful - and fun - perspective shifters.
What coach or trainer doesn't work with perspectives, it is
core to being a change agent. The One Hat At A Time Cards
take a simple and common metaphor - hats, each hat is
symbolic of a line of work and the style, mindset, and
environment that goes with it. By randomly choosing a hat
you have an easy way to access a different mindset.
It is a great creativity tool in that it introduces
divergent /tangential thinking to a question or task at
hand. If you are creating a workout routine, what would the
jester hat bring to it? If you are creating a presentation,
what would the chef's hat bring to it?
—
From
Coaching Toys Newsletter No. 24, 11/16/04.
