On a recent flight the woman sitting next to my wife was telling her about her daughter. The daughter had finished seven years of study to become a chiropractor. After completing her studies and graduating she decided she did not want to practice. She discovered she doesn’t like touching other people. It took seven years to find out that she doesn’t like touching people. This...
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We are inspired by the people that rise to serve a cause. They etch their devotion on history and leave an indelible impression of their courage for those that follow. We just watched two movies that captured the essence of The Enlightenment and the wave that transformed the world in the 18th century. It is still very possible that the 21st century will also be...
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This Key points to a clear and present danger. There are probably more problems and ailments caused by this blind spot than by any other issue. Your success and well-being can be seriously hampered by this insidious blind spot and freeing yourself from it can amount to finding a new beginning and giving yourself a second life. This has to make the top of your...
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The Economist report on Our Nomadic Future begins: “SOMETIMES the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. It could well be that way with wireless communications. Something that people think of as just another technology is beginning to show signs of changing lives, culture, politics, cities, jobs, even marriages dramatically. In particular, it will usher...
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This is a conversation about the power of storytelling. “Let’s bring back the dinner table conversation” is one of many messages from David McCullough. In art, business or anything – “The only way to learn to do it is by doing it.” This one life is the real thing, not the dress rehearsal for another time. David McCullough’s story is the making of a great...
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Josh asked how to develop intuition, how to refine the ‘intuitive voice’ and how to maintain the internal intuitive conversation. These are great questions. At the bottom of this post I’ll make the first suggestion. Let’s first say this – the ideal setting is to work into these questions live, in an intuition workshop retreat. We can then go beyond what can be done here...
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What’s better than making decisions? What is more fun, more powerful and more creative than getting up in the morning and thinking that what you’ve got to do today is to make decisions? Making decisions is great but even more fun, more energizing and more creative is to have the mindset that today you don’t need to make decisions – that today your endeavor is...
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Can you think about a situation when adding one means adding ten? Take a moment to think about this conundrum before you read on. Don’t cheat. Did you find the answer? Well, here it is… When your first child is born. I first became aware of this change a few months after our son was born 20 years ago (1987). No one alerted me to...
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Here are a few quotes from a Harvard Business Review conversation with Twyla Tharp. These sweat beads of wisdom go beyond art. She captures the essentials of any dedicated endeavor. “…everyone can be creative, but you have to prepare for it with routine. There’s no other way around it. It’s an absolute mistake to think that art is not practical—or that business cannot be creative....
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Opening the door is a ritual. Shaking hands is a ritual. Taking your vitamins can be a ritual. A family dinner can be a ritual. Showering is a ritual. Counting your blessings is a ritual. Saying “thank you” is a ritual. What makes all of these a ritual is the intention in your action. There are many kinds of rituals. Rituals serve and help you...
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