Failing is not the problem. Learning nothing from that failure is. “Learning from other people’s mistakes” is one of the strongest ways to grow. It gives us the opportunity to bypass a potential detour in our own path. This, however, has been traditionally been limited to watching your Dad burn himself on a hot stove [...]
One autumn, an old farmer looked outside at his flourishing crop. With both excitement and despair in his voice he said to his wife “how am I ever going to harvest this all by myself?” “Why don’t you hire some of those young contractors in town? I’m sure they’d be available and would love to [...]
Terces, from Cafe Gratitude, wrote this at the end of last year. After experiencing a weekend of “interruptions,” I just needed to share her insight from this post again: “I was thinking the other day how often I find myself living by evidence, even when I realize it I can’t always intervene in my evidence [...]
In January, I created a list of 100 things I want to do before I turn 100. They were not goals (as they didn’t provide direction or a deadline), but experiences I thought would be totally rad to have. Experiences that would create ear-to-ear smiles, belly laughs, tears of joy, nostalgic excitement, or all of [...]
How you frame your idea is key. By selecting the right words to use, you can either enroll your audience in what you’re saying, or leave them disengaged and unmotivated to take action. In Shelle Rose Charvet’s book “Words That Change Minds: Mastering the language of influence,” she suggests each other of us has motivation [...]
Sometimes it helps to know how to get there: Safe travels. Pick of the Post: Maroon 5 – Misery (official music video)
Soft corporate cultures allow you to be mediocre. They coddle and focus on the weakest team members. They put policies before people. Their leaders want people to get the work done the way it’s always been done. They protect inefficiencies. Their visions and strategies are riddled with buzz words that their own employees don’t understand [...]
If you are looking to get into writing, acting, singing, or producing – you should probably watch this video. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is bringing a collaborative production company to the masses and calling it hitRECord. If this is how new movies, television programs, songs, and art will be made in the future … I can’t frickin [...]
My friend Lindsey got me hooked on a website called tinybuddha. While the content on their site is great (“simple wisdom for complex lives”), the additional musings they add for their e-mail subscribers is what always makes me sit back and think. For example, a few weeks ago my inbox smiled when they sent me [...]
Sometimes we feel lonely, unloved, and ugly. We get overwhelmed in busy schedules. We feel out of control. We put off making decisions because we’re scared. And then – along comes a friend. You know the one I’m referring to. The one that makes you feel like you belong somewhere, that gives you warm hugs, [...]
