Mar 11, 2013 | Decision Making, How People Work, Start Something Project
Sometimes the answer is just doing it. Not thinking about doing it. Not writing about doing it. Not talking about doing it. And not waiting on it, or giving it more time. Anticipation can be deadly.
Feb 26, 2013 | Health and Wellness, Life
What’s one thing that almost every one of us have in common? The ability to walk, wander, and be bipedal; we are a species that has, historically, spent most of our time on our feet. In my Walk + Talk adventures in San Francisco this past year, I’ve been...
Feb 11, 2013 | Post-It, Swimming
In your life, you’ll disappoint people. You may be wildly successful, outrageously funny, brilliant and do extraordinary things. You also will likely disappoint someone, at some time. And the more that you attempt to do, be, and discover, the higher probability...
Feb 4, 2013 | Mindfulness
William James, from the University of Amsterdam In the 1961 text titled Psychology: The Briefer Course, William James, (an eminent theorist and one of the founders of modern psychology), writes a series of essays on habits, consciousness, the self, attention,...
Jan 28, 2013 | Crafting Your Career, How People Work
When someone asks you how you are, do you answer in one of the following three ways? I’m good! I’m fine. Ohhh, Busy. Imagine eliminating those three words. What would you say instead? How would you respond? Inspired in part by a sign on my wall, and a 2003 post by...
Jan 24, 2013 | How People Work, Life
I’ve had a few people ask me about writing habits, what compels me to write, and how to keep the habit. A couple of thoughts: Don’t worry about what it looks like, or how much of it you’re doing. Don’t worry about who’s reading it, or...
Jan 21, 2013 | Decision Making
What would just one of something look like? Not a diversity of items, but a simplicity of things. A specificity, a selection, and a deliberate choice between several? Not three workout programs, but just one workout program. Not seven yoga mats or towels, but just...
Jan 17, 2013 | Health and Wellness
“Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, ‘The act of walking … is a...
Jan 14, 2013 | Mindfulness
“We’re not here, for that long, anyway. But to spend almost half our time lost in thought, and for the most part unhappy at that–well that’s pretty tragic, isn’t it?” — Andy Puddicombe How does your mind work? What brought you...
