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Beginning: The Grass is Greener Where You Water It

Posted in career, change, choices, decision-making, tagged on September 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you water it.” ~ my pal, Sharni Earlier this week I wrote about my decision to turn down a recent job offer in favor of staying at my current company and pursing my own entrepreneurial projects through Compass Yoga and my writing. I have [...]

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Beginning: Let Priorities Shape Reality

Posted in career, choices, decision-making, tagged on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ~ Nietzche With my recent career decision, I had to get my priorities back in order. I used to think of priority setting as a one-and-done action. It’s actually a daily process, a constant tinkering based on new bits of information and [...]

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Beginning: Why I Chose to Not Leave My Job

Posted in career, decision-making, job, tagged on September 12, 2011 | 17 Comments »

“Man is without a doubt the most interesting fool there is.” ~ Mark Twain A few weeks ago, I wrote about my conversation with Brian that involved the futility of living on a ledge. At the time, I thought the name of that ledge was the job that I currently have that pays my bills [...]

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Beginning: What We Have, Hold, and Share

Posted in choices, decision-making, relationships, tagged on September 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I recently had a conversation with a mentor who wanted to give me some food for thought. As someone who often wears my heart on my sleeve and my feelings on my face, she told me about some advice that her mother gave her a long time ago: “No one ever said you had to [...]

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Beginning: Somewhere Between Fear and Boredom

Posted in choices, decision-making, fear, Life, tagged on September 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »

On Friday I was having a conversation with someone about his varied career practicing law. Though he’s been a lawyer for several decades, his bath is rather unorthodox as he’d practiced in a number of different specialties and now serves as the vice chairman of a large firm. As someone who has had a varied [...]

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Beginning: Let Your Body Set Your Priorities

Posted in choices, decision-making, happiness, health, tagged on July 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »

My cold from last week is persisting, and to some degree worsening. Rather than shocking my body with an overload of cold medicine, I’m riding it out for one very simple reason: the medicine didn’t work because my cold is due to stress, not that nasty little common cold virus. Last week I had a [...]

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Beginning: Spend One Day in Your Ideal Job

Posted in career, choices, decision-making, tagged on July 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” ~ Buddha You and I have been doing some soul-searching. In Mary Oliver’s beautiful words, we’ve been working hard to figure out what to do with our “one wild and precious life”. Yesterday I wrote about being at a [...]

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Beginning: Protecting the Crossroads

Posted in choices, decision-making, fate, future, work, writing, yoga, tagged on July 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both, and be one traveler long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could…knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the [...]

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Beginning: Your Yesterdays Will Rise Again; Act Accordingly

Posted in choices, decision-making, faith, family, tagged on June 28, 2011 | 12 Comments »

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” ~ Pearl Buck Searching yesterday is valuable, difficult work. I take it on every day because I believe so fully in the process of continuous improvement. I know and accept that I am not perfect, that I will never be perfect, and that there [...]

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Beginning: Making the Leap from What You Are to What You Could Be

Posted in change, decision-making, yoga, tagged on June 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” ~ Charles DuBois via Dailygood.org “That which we grip we are destined to lose. That’s what our yoga practice teaches us.” ~ Matthew Sanford I talk to a lot of people every day who [...]

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