How do you define the word family? Are you close with your blood relative? Do you spend more time with people you’ve come to know over the years? The word family can be a loaded term for some people. In one way or another, we all have some sort of family of origin. And through our [...]
Do you ever go online? Are you an Internet user? Do you have any social media accounts? I know your answer to at least one of those questions is “Well, duh!“ because after all, this is an email, and you had to fire up some sort of Internet-connected digital device to even read it. Very few people [...]
How do you deal with your professional knowledge? What’s your relationship with your intellectual property? Does it ever feel like your supply is going to run low? Some people think that creativity is a zero-sum game. As if there is a limited supply in a bucket, and it’s in danger of running out. But really, creative [...]
Do you have an overarching belief system? Is there some philosophical underpinning to your existence? How do you reconcile the great mysteries of the universe with your daily life? Much like politics, the subject of faith or religion is one that is often avoided in polite conversation among mixed company around the dinner table. With this [...]
Do you have a backup plan? How do you keep things running smoothly in your life? Are some of your processes dialed into a formula? Sometimes it's great to have things somewhat automated. When you get to be a pro at something the trick is to make a difficult task look easy. Remember — perfection is [...]
What’s your relationship with your belongings? How do you deal with ’stuff’? Why is it that the things we own are a reflection of who we are? Everyone has a different way of making their way through the three dimensional world. And at the various ages and stages of our lives the importance of our stuff [...]
How’s your reaction time? Are you able to leap into action in a hurry? What do you do to stay nimble in case something unexpected arises? Sometimes life throws us a curve ball, and it serves us well to stay loose enough to catch it on the fly. You never really know when you might suddenly [...]
How do you frame gratitude in your life? Have you ever thought about how it relates to appreciation? Why is it that grateful people seem to have a much easier time in life? It seems like a lot of people think that gratitude is something that only happens on special occasions. Like it’s something separate that [...]
Do you ever feel like you have to much on your plate? Do you sometimes bite off more than you can chew? Have you ever felt like there weren’t enough hours in the day? There are a lot of common platitudes that come to mind when we talk about time management. It takes poise, finesse, and [...]
Have you ever talked about the good old days? Do you ever find yourself comparing how things are now how they were then? What’s your relationship to change? It’s all too easy to make pat assumptions about times gone by. And the looking glass mirror of age distorts the view in both directions. On one hand, [...]
