It just does! I have known my wife as a friend for nearly 25 years and have been married to her for 12 (on July 7th!!), and just this morning I was really struggling to tell her how I really was feeling about the work I have with a client the next two days. (Funny, … Continue reading »
I dare you to scrap your 5 year plan
…Let me push pause on a thought from yesterday (which I will come back to because it is a thorn in my thoughts) and jump into another random thought that just came up for me… There is a tremendous amount of confusion around the “long term strategic goals” in both our business and our personal … Continue reading »
The disease of fame
We all have a deep desire to be truly known by another person. When purely expressed we experience true love. When this desire is diseased we lust for fame. If I’m honest, I can feel deep inside me the dark desire for fame–the sickness, the disease. The illness of fame is not in the intention … Continue reading »
Last day on earth?
So this will be admittedly ridiculous and mellow-dramatic… but it’s true and I am an ENFP, so there you have it. Ha! I started today fully intending to act based on my answer to this question: “If today was the last day I had, what would I do?” So I mowed my dad’s lawn! Hahaha! … Continue reading »
305 pounds isn’t healthy
Did I ever tell you that about me? I think it was about five years ago that I stepped onto the scale at my doctors office for a routine check up and saw that it read: “305 lbs.” You want to know what’s weird about that looking back? No one had ever said anything to me about … Continue reading »
life misery
I don’t normally write so much, but I am thinking a lot right now. I’m hoping my brain is in a gestation period where a new way of living has been conceived, and not yet ready to be birthed. (Wow! Can I get any weirder?!? Ha!) What if poverty isn’t the problem? What if the … Continue reading »
daring greatly
I read a lot of books and I try to take one thing away from them all. Trying to boil my big takeaways to one is just impossible. This book, “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead,” by Dr. Brene Brown, is dense with lessons … Continue reading »
eight years of pain
I was talking with a friend today who said that she spent eight years under a difficult boss that treated her with ruthless arrogance. When I asked why she stayed for so long in such a dysfunctional environment, she said: “Well, that is a long story. But honestly I’m glad I did. I wouldn’t be … Continue reading »
nameless generosity
At dinner tonight celebrating my grandmothers 90th birthday she told a story that made me pause… Grandpa called from Germany with the exciting news, “Bon! I found a place for us all to live! Get a plane and get over here!” ‘Bon’ was his short name for Grandma Bonnie. She grabbed her passport, purchased a … Continue reading »
I would write, but…
…I have nothing to say. Right now I am just living and learning to enjoy the life I have today. Don’t follow me. Follow the one who gives you breathe in the morning.
