What is your relationship to giving? What does that even mean to you? We can donate our time. We can donate our money. We can help family, friends, neighbors, our local nonprofit working in our city, on a state level, a national level, or a global level. We can support individuals, or organizations helping on [...]
How do we choose the people we work with? What comes into play both consciously and unconsciously? When are you comfortable with your decision? And will you turn to someone else if you decide you don't like your chosen person? Apparently, when people hire a coach, understanding the process is more important than the coaches [...]
Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft talk often on their podcast Happier about a 'season of sacrifice'. As a tv writer, Elizabeth's work is very seasonal. Not in a traditional way, but there are times when she is working insane hours on a project, and then times that are much slower. She has found it helpful [...]
I worry incessantly that people will think my motivations are bad. This is not because they are and I am trying to hide the fact. Quite the opposite. It is particularly when I'm doing something good that I worry people will think I have some nefarious intent. In reality, I suspect that no one cares [...]
As I got sidetracked, scrolling through social media while deciding how to promote a new offering, I saw people out there taking action. I realized that if I didn't spend so much time pondering how to get it right, it could be done and then I would have a lot more done over time. In [...]
It was last fall, and my husband and I had returned to our college for our 15th reunion. The first reunion we have attended. I have read shockingly little given my age, but I have loved books for quite sometime. (I was no bookworm as a child, but in my later years fell in love [...]
Astronauts have reported feeling ready to go home and be surrounded by more humans after about four months in space. After four months of quarantine, or for some at least being aware of quarantine even if they haven't stuck with it, and with the number of infections only increasing, how are you feeling? The thing [...]
I've heard from a number of people who have started their own businesses who feel that they became successful only because, or when, they shut the other doors. Whether in actuality or just mentally, they made sure there was no other option, no plan B. In other words, they did not start their business thinking: [...]
If you could take a sabbatical and there was no Covid, what would you do? No strings attached...just time and reasonably sufficient funds. Would it be pure play? Or a craft you are passionate about? Or work that brings you great joy and has true meaning to you? Would you spend time with family or [...]
Pavement makes our travel smoother. A gravel road is still a road, but travel will be more difficult. Where in your life can you pave the way to operate more smoothly? Where do you enjoy the adventure of a dirt road? And where are you continuing to travel along an unmaintained washboard miserable path and [...]
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