Category: Living

Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.

  • Being Busy Isn’t Virtuous

    Being Busy Isn’t Virtuous

    Work is a part of life. But being busy isn’t necessary. We keep ourselves busy to avoid things we actually want to do.

  • Intentional and Slow

    Intentional and Slow

    Making more of life isn’t about doing more or doing what we already do faster. It’s about living in the now.

  • Seeing—knowing is a matter of focus

    Seeing—knowing is a matter of focus

    People always want to know what the right thing to do is. Because we feel lost. And we aren’t sure what to do.

  • What we really want when we want to do the right thing

    What we really want when we want to do the right thing

    There is a reason we often struggle to know what the right thing to do is in a situation. We don’t like the pain of it.

  • Do we have too many leaders?

    Do we have too many leaders?

    Is it possible to have too many leaders in an organization? Only if we think of leadership as authority and not initiative.

  • Welcome—offering it and feeling it

    Welcome—offering it and feeling it

    People can really obsess about being welcomed. Often more than the welcoming they do. But maybe it is quite simple.

  • Disconnected

    Disconnected

    How our hyper-individualized focus betrays our sense of what is rational and the very stuff that keeps us together.

  • Less Consuming

    Less Consuming

    We’re aware of the problems with social media. And our always-on culture. But we keep acting like we have no choice.