Category: change
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visual strategy for one
I’m not a particularly prolific writer. It’s so tempting for me to get caught up in editing for others, and journaling is something I often do after the fact – my mind usually latches on to images and concepts before words. My coach knows this and will give me reflection prompts than can be done…
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sucking at something is the first step
During the holidays, my partner gifted me this sweet notebook that makes me think “Workers of the the world, unite!” Right? This repurposed book cover would have suited something from the WPA, Marx or Trotsky. Or maybe Che Guevara – check out the mustache on the dude second row center. I love this thing. My…
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meaning is an everyone problem
A common reaction when I tell people what I do for a living [After “So you travel around the world doing trust falls?”] is that it must be nice to be able to afford to care about how much you like work. It’s true, I mostly deal in the problems of white collar workers –…
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bravely, wholeheartedly & applying themselves with dignity
I opened a magazine today right to Gerry Hadden’s piece about journalism and meditation. He muses about the way he didn’t walk – choosing a journalist’s career over deep retreat some years ago, two paths that seem very, very different on the surface, but turn out to be different approaches to big ideas of Truth.…
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bad workplaces are depressing
A few months ago, Gallup published a survey that shows us disengagement at work makes people depressed and sick. But what is this engagement thing, and why does its lack make us feel so lousy? I’m suspicious of talk about “engagement”. It seems, more than anything, to get used to shift the focus of organizational…