Tag Archive | "spirituality"
Career, Creative, Work
While in Austin, TX this past week, I had some time to kill and discovered the wonderful BookPeople store. While browsing through their business section, I stumbled across a gem called Joy at Work by Dennis Bakke. The subtitle is A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job (there’s that word ‘fun’ again).
What is most [...]
Career, Creative, Life
I’ve been meditating on a particular prayer that prefaces a sermon written by Davidson Loehr, a Unitarian Universalist minister in Austin, Texas. Through this prayer, I’m facing off with that great demon known to us as Playing-It-Safe. Davidson writes:
If we must fail, let us fail at high endeavors. Let us not fail to be [...]
Creative, Life
Over the past couple of months, I had the privilege to be a part of something magical. It all started when a great fella named Dave Rothacker had a hair-brained idea: wouldn’t it be neat if a group of people took a book which had a lot of shared meaning – each signing it with [...]
Creative, Life
Think making a huge difference in someone’s life takes a herculean effort or a lot of time? Just ask Scott Hodge who not only rediscovered the power of a buck, but the power of simple generosity.
What I love about his later reflection is how this isn’t only a lesson for him, but for his kids. [...]
Career, Creative, Life
For the next couple of days, I’m up in New England for another conference. The event is being held in upstate Massachusetts, near the New Hampshire border, so I had a good excuse to bypass Boston and Logan Airport.
Yesterday afternoon, I flew into Manchester, NH and rented a car to drive down to Nashua [...]
Creative, Life
This past week marked the passing of Rosa Parks, an individual who knew and embodied courage. I’ve been reflecting on what lessons Rosa left for us and how we’ve gotten off-course in our struggle for social and economic justice. I’ve also been considering the work of all who fight for our civil rights and the [...]
Career, Creative, Life
As I reflect on the few posts I’ve written in the month of October, I believe I’ve come to some understanding of why I’ve struggled to write more…I’ve lost my way. What exactly does that mean? Well, for starters, I haven’t been true to the original purpose of this blog. I never wanted for this [...]
Creative, Life
Ever have a dream where you realize it was a dream? It’s called lucidity. Simplified, its when you become aware that all the rules that govern the dream’s reality don’t actually exist. Kind of like Neo exploring the Matrix. It’s a rich experience where you can do amazing, often superhuman things. Steve Pavlina reminded me [...]
Career, Creative
As my CEO often proudly tells me, "Our work is a gift we give to others." It’s in that spirit that I wish each of you a Happy Labor Day.
What happens when we consider our own work as an act of giving? For those of us employed within an organization, how does our attitude [...]
Creative, Work
I’m doing some reorganizing in my home office and I found a stack of Fast Company magazines. I started looking through them and and discovered that I read only the first half of the May 2005 issue. Toward the end of the issue is an article called God and Mammon at Harvard and discusses how [...]
