We often avoid the question of whether something is worth doing by going straight to the question “How do we do it?“ In fact, when we believe that something is definitely not worth doing, we are particularly eager to start asking How? We can look at what is worth doing at many different levels: As an individual I can wonder whether I can be myself and do what I want and still make a living. For an organization I can ask for whose sake does this organization exist and does it exist for any larger purpose than to survive and be economically successful? As a society, have we replaced a sense of community and civic engagement for economic well being and the pursuit of our private ambition? Continue reading
Psychology
What is the transformation in me that is required?
No one is going to change as a result of our desires. In fact, they will resist our efforts to change them simply due to the coercive aspect of the interaction. Continue reading
Flow, the secret to happiness
The power of vulnerability
Viktor Frankl: Why to believe in others
Nobody can travel our path for us
Unknowingly most of us are waiting for someone or something to rescue us. But I am here to tell you no one is coming – not your mother, not your father, not a prince on a white horse. Continue reading
Just Being There…..
“As I increasingly spent time with people living with Alzheimer’s, I realized that anger and impatience worked against me. Continue reading
Love is not a relationship, it is a state
“…Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, sharing; he starts giving. The emphasis is totally different. With the first, the emphasis is on how to get more. With the second, the emphasis is on how to give, how to give more, and how to give unconditionally. This is growth, maturity, coming to you. Continue reading
Power to Select the Lens Through Which We See Reality
Among all the things we don’t control, we do have some control over our stories. We do have a conscious say in selecting the narrative we will use to make sense of the world. Continue reading
Our outer world will mirror our inner struggle
The result of turning our backs on our dark side? A life that slips by only half lived. Dreams that are never realized, or worse, that lay buried under years of resignation and shame. Until we make peace with our shadow we will continue to be at war with ourselves. Continue reading
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