“ Let us love out loud every chance we get; believe in everything we feel; and have faith in where we are. ” ~ Bella Bloom Do you like deadlines? Are you 'pressure prompted'? How do you approach the big transitions that life gives you? Try as you might, there's just no way [...]
“ You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” ~ Jimmy Dean Do you enjoy the feeling of anticipation? Does it sometimes come with shades of trepidation? What’s so important about expectation? You, being human, have some [...]
“ We become aware of the void as we fill it.” ~ Antonio Porchia How do you focus your attention? Where do you put your awareness? What’s the difference and why is it so important? Attention gets a lot of airtime in today’s world. You hear terms bandied about like “the attention economy“ [...]
“ If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ” ~ Bruce Lee Do you ever feel less than loose? Sometimes stiff, stuck, or even brittle? How do you approach flexibility? Life can be rolling along like [...]
“ The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust Where have you been? Where do you want to go? How far is the distance between the two? If you had a globe handy when you were a kid, you might have played [...]
“ The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” ~ Joseph Campbell What are you 'into'? Do you have a particular 'field of interest'? Where do you dance 'off the floor'? “A boys gotta have a hobby!” an odd friend of mine used to say. [...]
“ If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” ~ Frederick Douglass Have you ever overcome something? Can you remember being on the other side of a big challenge? How can your past struggles serve you now? Life is like a winding road, a mountain path, or a trip across Paris [...]
“ There is no wrong time to do the right thing ” ~ Charles M. Blow How’s your timing? Are you early, late, or right on time? How does it feel when you get it just right? High on the list of assumptions to avoid is the thought that you have more time. [...]
“ Innovation is serendipity — you don't know what people will make.” ~ Tim Berners-Lee What does cooperation mean to you? How are dependence and interdependence different? Despite our divisions, are you ever amazed at how far we've come? Join me, if you will, in pondering almost any modern convenience that we take for [...]
“ I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.” ~ Johnny Depp What do you consider normal? When is something truly bizarre? And what does it mean to 'normalize' something? I'm sure you remember being a kid and visiting someone else's house, [...]
