I have a confession to make…I need this post more than you do. My life has been full of hard lessons, many of which were of my own doing – my casual attitude toward risk, poor choices, unforeseen outcomes of decisions, as well as your garden variety mistakes and setbacks. I have experienced some crushing […]
Life begins at the edge of your fear.
A sign posted on the highest bungee jump platform in the world.
If you were to look up parenting books on Amazon you would find over 229,000 results (as of the writing of this blog post), and I guarantee you that number will grow. In times past, people lived in communities and villages that included local family, friends, and neighbors. These villages contained within them the wisdom […]
In a previous blog post How To Overcome Fear (Part 1) I discussed fear as our personal alarm system and attempted to categorize it into a few basic types. If you haven’t read that post, I would highly recommend reading it before moving further. …Continued from the previous post So now that we understand fear a […]
What would your life be like if you didn’t operate from a place of fear? Or rather allow fear to control you? I find that fear is an often misunderstood emotion, and our relationship to fear is a somewhat complicated one. On one hand fear protects us from danger, but on the other hand, at […]
I recently had an epiphany that fundamentally changed the way I see the concept of Time forever. What I came to discover is that Time is an experience that we are unable to control or manage. Time unforgivably passes regardless of our perceived ability (or more accurately, our inability) to manage it. The myth (propagated […]
If you were to survey anyone about their least favorite aspects of work, one of the top items would likely be meetings. One Harvard Business Review study showed that one organization’s weekly executive meeting had a ripple effect that consumed over 300,000 hours of its employee’s time. As a work-society we spend a lot of time […]
Have you ever felt stuck mentally, emotionally, even spiritually? If we are self-aware and honest, we can identify with that the feeling. Oftentimes when we feel stuck, it’s difficult to put into words. We feel that something is not quite right, but it’s difficult to identify. Sometimes, feeling stuck comes in the form of writer’s […]
The perception of your work is as important, if not more important, than the actual work itself.
Although it’s rare, when I get sick, boy does it knock me flat on my back. Recently, I was graced with one of the “kid bugs” (kid bugs is a vernacular term used by parents of small children to describe mutant strains of viruses that start, grow, develop, and become infinitely reinforced among the human […]
