This weeks marks one year since I began my daily posts. The words of Robert Terry Weston guide me in reflection and in vision. I hope they inspire you, too. A year is gone. It matters not when it began For it has ended now. There were other years, And some began with a birthday, …
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These ponderings originally appeared one per day via MailChimp. This weekly version keeps them in one place for people who missed the daily postings. If you would like to sign up to get them daily, contact me HERE. What if…? “What if…?” is one of the most transformative questions we ever ask ourselves. What …
I’m still thinking about consequences, bottom lines, and legacies [See: The Bottom Line from last week]…and (not surprisingly) that leads me to think about personas. What are the stories I tell about myself that have led me to a personal image that my family and friends, my colleagues and mentors would recognize as ‘Andrea’? What …
We sat together and cried for almost two hours, sometimes holding hands, sometimes wiping our eyes or noses with tissues (we emptied a whole box). And two days later we did it all over again. She is a professor with a doctorate in the hard sciences. Years ago, as an undergraduate, she made the decision she …
I don’t know about you, but winter is a season when my energy is low and while lying dormant may be what I need to do, my frontal lobe just wants to keep clicking over: producing, checking things off the list, producing, scheduling tasks, producing, creating, producing. My body and spirit know they need renewal; …
And so we come to the end of an amazing 21-Day Journey…at least amazing for me. This was the most challenging week of the three — line turned out to be trickier than I had anticipated. The learning curve kept going and I see it stretching out before me as I resume a more ‘normal’ …