Work
Advice from Joseph Campbell
When asked how an ordinary person could preserve his sense of the mythic {the imaginary / the dream} when most feel too besieged by the everyday claims of the bills and the mortgage, Joseph Campbell answered: You must have a place to which you can go, in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day,…
Read MoreRelationship before Business / Busyness
Yesterday, a dear friend and mentor of mine said something that has been lingering with me ever since. This was her comment, “There comes a time when relationships are more important than business. It’s that time.” This comment meant a lot to me in that moment, given these particular circumstances, and it continues to mean…
Read MoreThis place where you are
This place where you are…this place where you stand…is where you must start. From here you can go in any direction…and it is impossible to start from anywhere else. Ron Atchison
Read MoreWisdom from Making Mistakes
We make a lot of mistakes. If you ask people whom you consider to be wise and courageous about their lives, you may find that they have hurt a lot of people and made a lot of mistakes, but that they used those occasions as opportunities to humble themselves and open their hearts. We don’t…
Read MoreA new look at Work-Life Balance
“The current understanding of work-life balance is too simplistic. People find it hard to balance work with family, family with self, because it might not be a question of balance. Some other dynamic is in play, something to do with a very human attempt at happiness that does not quantify different parts of life and…
Read MoreSuccess ! ? ! ?
Success can be the greatest barrier to stopping, to quiet, to opening up the radically different form of conversation that is necessary for understanding this larger sense of self. Our very success can be the cause of a greater anxiety for further preservation of our success. Our highly evolved ability to worry and become anxious…
Read MoreWorkday vs. Work Life
The interesting thing about a work life is that it is very much like a workday. Most of the hard work is done by simply turning up, facing the task at hand and moving forward, inch by inch, foot by foot, until we look around, admittedly after a much greater time than we expected, but…
Read MoreHow do you ‘escape’ or ‘control’ your life?
This post is written with full respect for and not meant to minimize the depth of addiction. It is intended to open people up to seeing where addiction does show up in your life and ideally as an invitation to read more about this mind-blowing take on addictive energy by picking up this book and…
Read MoreFeeling Lost?
Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their…
Read MoreIf today was the last day of your life?
Steve Jobs once told a graduating class of Stanford: “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘no’ for too…
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