The BOLD (How Much?) Are you learning what you set out to learn or are you learning all there is to learn? The Whisper (That Much, eh?) The bus pulled up in the bus loop facing the shiny aquarium and Mr. Berkshire signaled to the students in an attempt to focus their buzzing excitement on […]
Change, Choice and Ceiling Bubbles
THE BOLD: (Breakdown Ahead) A breakdown is an interruption of your patterns, habits or expectations. Sometimes they come unbidden. Sometimes we provoke them ourselves. While they can be disruptive, they invite renovation, reformation, and renewal. Our choices are limited but powerful in the face of breakdowns—we can choose a project before an accident happens, we […]
Do You Hear That?
THE BOLD (Missing What We’re Missing): You don’t know what you’re missing. That’s because you are missing it. It isn’t until you build your capacity, heal your wounds, develop a new skill or shift your perspective that the missing things are found. What aren’t you hearing right now? I don’t know and neither do you. […]
You Haven’t Earned Your Limits Yet
THE BOLD (an End to Limited Limitation): Until you bump into the wall, you don’t have a wall. Until you push yourself past what is possible, you haven’t earned your limits. The Whisper (an Experience of the Infinite Finite) Recently, I participated in a group meditation. The facilitator drew us along a path to encounter […]
How Bright Shines the Light
THE BOLD (on Light Signatures): “Who am I to make such a difference?” you ask. “How are my meager resources going to impact the world?” A trip to a lighthouse reminded me that we don’t have to rely solely on the strength of our pilot light. There are resources to clarify, amplify and focus our […]
Oasis–What I learned on the Road from Here to There
THE BOLD (Whence Cometh My Strength): Sometimes, a little patch of the familiar–like an 8 foot square of east coast grass plunked into a western landscape–can provide welcome relief. Enjoy the familiar without letting it derail your progress toward your desired future. Let the green, green grass of home strengthen your resolve and sooth your heart, but don’t […]
Before and After…What?
THE BOLD (Change In Service to What?): Before and after can be addicting. How do we let our passion for the newly arranged, the freshly painted, the revised and the improved fuel meaningful change? How do we make sure that we will want to live in our afters? The Whisper (Movement, Change, and Direction): I […]
You Might Be a Perfectionist If…
…you think you aren’t one. THE BOLD (Give it, and Yourself, a Rest): For many of us, the very characteristic we secretly nurture is the very characteristic that keeps us from enjoying the order, control, progress, and prestige we crave. Perfectionism is a seductive poison. The Whisper (Perfectionism is Far from Perfect): If you conducted […]
5 Questions to Move From Busy to Beneficial
THE BOLD (From Treadmill to Tremendous): Yesterday, we discussed the difference between being busy, churning on a treadmill of meaningless activity and being beneficial by making choices that matter. So how do you know what matters? The Whisper (A Different Way to Work): The designer William Morris (think leafy Arts and Crafts wallpaper that hangs […]