I have been working with two clients lately who have been struggling with very similar issues. They are issues that I have been challenged with myself and are not unique to them […]
Life
Good Self Care Is the Foundation for Flourishing
Several years ago I was in a place where it felt like it was all I could do to get through the day. You know those days when what sounds best to […]
5 Ways to Keep Impostor Syndrome from Ruling You
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jenn Labin. There was one specific moment when I almost quit. I nearly walked away from everything I had spent the better part of a […]
5 Questions That'll Help You Free Yourself from the Urgency Spiral
I was in an email conversation with a Creative Giant who was discussing how moving to the UK from Chicago displaced a lot of her projects but gave her new insights about […]
Transitions Always Take Longer Than We'd Like
Transitions always take longer than we’d like and than we anticipate. One of the biggest reasons for the difference between how long transitions take and how long we think they should take […]
That Something Makes You Happy Is Reason Enough to Do It
One of the exercises we asked people to do over the Wayfinder Weekend at the Wayfinding Academy was to find the Why under their passions and interests. As is always the case, […]
What If People Really Wanted to Know and Support You?
I realized earlier this week that I had completely misjudged your character. My first realization was that I had been doing it over the last week, but a deeper reflection made me […]
What Brexit Can Teach Us About Our Creative Work
The economist and social philosopher in me is fascinated by what’s going on with Brexit, but I’ll save those thoughts for an essay on another day. What I’d like to talk about […]
Your Light Is the Best Counter to Darkness
I’ve had a lot of conflicted thoughts about what to say about the Orlando shooting. There are so many twisted threads to it: that the shooter targeted people in the LGBTQ community; […]
What Counts As Meditation?
People often ask me what about my morning routine. I usually answer that I meditate for 15–30 minutes before I do anything else, but that answer has always been tentative for me because what I mean may not be what people think when they think of meditation. For some, what I do may not “count” as meditation.
I wrote about this on Facebook a few weeks ago and it was the most popular thing I’ve shared in a while, so I figured you might want to see it, too.
The Fear of Missing Out Causes Us to Miss Out
“But what about all of those things you’ll miss out on?” FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) can be a really powerful force. via The One Simple Thing I Do to Live a […]
Love the Ones You’re With: Developing Stronger Relationships
When I shared the Virtual Handshake Method, I mentioned that the strength of a network of relationships is a combination of both the quantity of relationships and the quality of those relationships.
What the Virtual Handshake Method underplayed is that there’s also a threshold beyond which a large number of weak-tie relationships undermines our ability to maintain our strong-tie relationships.
This post talks about why it’s important to strengthen your strong-tie relationships and gives some practical tips for doing so.
The Four Levels of Communication
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and […]
How to Feel Like You Have More Time
Each of us has 24 hours per day and it’s common for people to feel like they don’t have enough time to take meaningful action on the stuff that matters. Most of […]
Is It Time to Quit?
There you are…feeling like it’s time to give up. You’re not making progress on your goal, despite how hard you fight. You don’t even know whether you want to make progress anymore. […]
A Poem About Resistance
This one isn’t by me – it’s by Jermaine Lane, a Lift Offian who exudes hope and a passion for living that’s both infectious and exhilarating. Here’s an excerpt from his poem […]
So Much More Than Damaged Goods
I know you’ve been through a lot. I know you’re still not ready to come out and can’t see yourself the way everybody else sees you. And, I can also understand that […]
From Reset to Reintegration
In the last part of this story, I shared the lead-up to the reset. In case you haven’t been following, the reset occurred because Angela (my wife) developed acute and debilitating anxiety, […]