“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” ~ Mark Twain Brian has been counseling me now for several years about my confusion around people who phone it in, people who just take what life gives them, shrug their shoulders, and deal with it. Life happens to these people. I [...]
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Leap: Go Against the Tide of Bland
Posted in adventure, career, work on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Leap: Stop Digging Trenches
Posted in business, career, creativity, job, journey, work on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“The only explicit lesson I got from my father was when I was not doing very well in school, and he had a little chat with me and said, “You know, there are people who work for me who dig trenches, and there are people who are professionals, and if you keep going the way [...]
Leap: Shelter from the Storm Found at a Voice Over Class at Simple Studios
Posted in adventure, art, career, faith, work on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Wait a minute! Did I go to bed and wake up in September 2008? This is the question I found myself thinking while at work yesterday. September 2008, 5 weeks after I joined my company, Lehman Brothers failed and the market went to hell. Several months later I was the only filled desk in an [...]
Leap: Sometimes Your Future Chooses You
Posted in adventure, career, choices, future, work on January 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Next week is going to prove to be an interesting week around the office. There are rumors flying about changes in staff, strategy, and priorities. I’ve heard so many at this point that they’ve all cancelled one another out. Only one thing is for certain – the way it is now is not the way [...]
Leap: Finding Meaning in Experiences That Are Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted in art, career, movie, New York City, work on January 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
“And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you [...]
Leap: What We’re All Really Doing Here
Posted in choices, decision-making, travel, work on January 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“We‘re all just walking each other home.” ~ Ram Dass I read this quote from Ram Dass and it stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me that we are here to be of service to one another. All we’re ever really trying to do is make life a little bit easier, a little happier [...]
Leap: You’ll Find Opportunity Everywhere. Now, Plan.
Posted in career, nonprofit, work on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Since formally announcing my New Year’s Resolution to go my own way in my career this year, I’ve been spotting new opportunities everywhere. It’s as if I’m manufacturing rocks to turn over just to have some place to stash all of the possibilities. The board members of Compass Yoga tease me sometimes about my unending [...]
Leap: We All Need Soil and Rain, or How to Never Be Intimidated
Posted in entrepreneurship, environment, work, worry on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“No matter how wondrous our works, we have to remember that our very existence depends upon 6 inches of soil and the fact that it rains now and then.” ~ Dan Lufkin I found this quote on a park bench, literally. Phin and I were taking a walk in Central Park and there are four [...]
Leap: Longfellow Shows Us How to Keep Our 2012 Resolution
Posted in art, literature, work on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My friend, Col, posted A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on her Facebook page as 2011 drew to a close. It’s last stanza, “Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait” is such a beautiful sentiment as [...]
Beginning: How to Remember the Milk (and Everything Else!)
Posted in business, creative process, creativity, organize, work on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Working full-time, running a new nonprofit, plugging away as a freelance writer, keeping up with friends flung across the globe, and taking part in all of the exciting goings-on in New York City can take a toll on even the most organized person. My reflexologist, Heather, said to me on Wednesday, “Christa, your brain is [...]
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