The BOLD (Worth the Memory) I’m reading an excellent book right now entitled The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments. The author, Meik Wiking, is a researcher who studies happiness. In this book, he explores the ways in which happy memories are formed and the benefits of retaining them. Great memories result from […]
The Full-Bodied Life: Living All The Way To Your Toes
The BOLD (Living All In) For much of my life, I lived in my head. I relied on thoughts and words and ideas. The rest of me was this annoying place that didn’t move fast enough, that harbored aches and that needed stuff. Geez. All that began to change a few years ago. On my journey to introduce my […]
The Livable 4: Our Bold Life Foundation
The BOLD (Firm Foundation) Entrepreneurs are told to work both in and on their businesses. When we work in our business, we are doing the tasks and accomplishing the projects that generate our income and create the output that we are in business to create. When we work on our business, we are accomplishing the […]
The Spillway’s Overflow: A Story of Depletion and Abundance
The BOLD (Livable Success) My fondest wish for you is that you attain livable success. If you design and live into a success that allows you to thrive—body, soul and bank account—we all win. Your contribution will be larger, your impact deeper and your example more potent if you can sustain your success. That means that we all […]
The Abundance Fulcrum: Balancing Enough and More
The BOLD (Enough) This month, we’re going to explore the sixth principle of the Prospects of Possibility framework: Evict Insufficiency. Right now, it is tempting to focus on all the things that are insufficient because we are experiencing an unprecedented crisis. A few months ago, it was tempting to focus on insufficiency because of the contrast between […]
The Aspiration Audit: Harnessing FOMO To Design Your Best Life
The BOLD (I Could Have, You Know) When the exhausting and imperious Lady Catherine De Bourgh demands her part in the conversation in Chapter 31 of Pride And Prejudice (see the quote above), she declares that she is sure that if she had ever applied what she believes to be her considerable natural talent to […]
The River’s Flow: What Brings You to Joy?
The BOLD (Dip Your Toe in The Water) In 1927, Max Ehmann wrote a poem called Desiderata. The last line is excerpted below as our quote for this article. In Desiderata, Ehmann lays out the basic building blocks of a good life. What are the basic building blocks of your best life? I suggest that they are the things […]
The Motto Code: Are You Living YOUR Values?
The BOLD (Deep Courage) Dreams thrive on challenge. If there were no challenge, there would be no reason to be innovative and resourceful and daring. And dreams love it when we are innovative and resourceful and daring. Dreams require courage. I’ve talked a lot about courage, both here and in numerous client sessions, deep conversations with friends and […]
The Verb Update: What If You Don’t Have To?
The BOLD (Get at It) Everyone seems to have settled back in now. My friend, Shanna Kabatznick, pointed out that Monday was the real New Year’s Day because it was when everyone returned—from time off, from holiday brain, from travel. Welcome to the New New Year. Our society tends to celebrate Friday and dread Monday (though distributed […]