Inspiration Shows Up When YOU Show Up
To paraphrase the Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu: A mythic journey always starts with your first step.
How do you get started when looking for inspiration?
Where does inspiration come from?
What’s a $$ Billion Good For?
Forbes reports, “The highest paid hedge fund manager only made $1.3 billion last year.” Last year, 2014, was a bad year for hedge funds and hedge fund managers. It wasn’t just a bad year, it was the worst since the great recession started in 2008.
Think Like an Owner?!
I would love to have five dollars for every time a business owner says to me, “I want my employees to think like an owner.” “Oh, really!,” I respond…
Unintended Consequences
Lately, I’ve started noticing a lot of actions that have unintended consequences, and sometimes they backfire.
Creativity Requires Space
Creativity takes time. It requires space. Space to muse. Space to think. Space unconstrained by time. Creativity is timeless.
Adversity, Opportunity or Both?
When things don’t go well, it is easy to take on all the responsibility, maybe blame someone else, and cry in our beer (or wine).
Why not put a problem in front of others and see what they come up with? You might be surprised by the outcome.
Writing Your Own Success Story
So many books, blogs, and podcasts purport to help you in writing your own success story, to help you develop your purpose. But they don’t work for me.
Finding the passion that lies deep within to drive you for the rest of your life seems to be a struggle for so many of us.
Yet we never seem to find the answer.
An Elephant Never Forgets
The question has always stuck with me, like the elephant in a circus, how many things have I been told or experienced that I couldn’t do when younger that I could do today?
Reducing Anxiety and Stress: Meditation vs. Journaling
It seems like we live in an increasingly competitive society where anxiety and stress have become a cultural norm. Meditation has been promoted as a tool to help reduce anxiety and stress. But there might be a better way…
Start Living: Chasing Happiness is an Illusion
“…The life that you ought to be living is the one you are living…”