Posted in goals, healthcare, opportunity, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“In a painting you create beauty with the addition of each brush stroke. In a company you create it with the addition of each talented, engaged person and with each thoughtful act.” ~ Bill Witherspoon There’s a lot of lip service paid to talent management in companies and organizations, and that lip service is fine [...]
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Posted in student, teaching, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on November 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yoga teacher Rodney Yee and one of his students “Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; build with what they have. But with the best of leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, we have done this ourselves.” ~Lao Tzu Teaching [...]
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Posted in business, career, creativity, ideas, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on November 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few of my friends are in the midst of starting to craft their own businesses, either as incremental income streams or as a replacement for their full-time jobs working for someone else. The companies vary from an online stationery store to career coaching to senior care, and some have mentioned that they’re worried about [...]
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Posted in commitment, creativity, determination, tagged postaday2011 on November 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Last week I read a reprint of an article from frog design that originally ran in Fortune. It nailed a tiny pet peeve of mine in the world of creativity. Companies and individuals often trumpet themselves as innovative, out-of-the-box, creative thinking “idea people”. It sticks in my craw a bit because there is nothing remarkable [...]
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Posted in change, choices, experience, learning, tagged postaday2011 on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“We seek not rest, but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.” ~Marge Piercy A funny thing happens to me around 5pm every day. I can have a very tough day around the office, so tough that I feel like just curling up in a ball and hiding until tomorrow. And then I [...]
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Posted in adventure, choices, creativity, imagination, tagged postaday2011 on November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Not all who wander are lost.” ~J. R. R. Tolkien Yesterday I wrote about the need to begin over and over again, to never give up, to take our punches and then try again. It’s also important to understand that it’s okay to try a lot of different avenues. You don’t need to beat your [...]
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Posted in courage, failure, tagged postaday2011 on October 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“This thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford (via Leslie Knope) Network TV is my guilty pleasure. Anyone who says there’s nothing good on television isn’t looking hard enough. Last week I took in an episode of Parks and Recreation. Truthfully, I hated it the first [...]
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Posted in adventure, Africa, home, travel, tagged postaday2011 on October 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Today I’m very excited to share a guest post from Nikita Raja. We “met”via this blog over two years ago and since then have kept up a regular correspondence. She’s one of the members of this blog’s community who is constantly encouraging me to continue to share my experience as a way of helping others. [...]
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Posted in economy, money, passion, tagged postaday2011 on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to Saturday’s wrap-up, take 2! Thanks for your thoughts, ideas, and encouragement this week. Here’s how it played out: Make all the plans you want and be prepared to throw them out the window. If this wild ride on the economy slide has taught us anything it’s that flexibility, liquidity, and creativity are tools [...]
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Posted in choices, passion, tagged postaday2011 on October 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” ~ David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist and historian Somewhere along the way, “reasonable” got a good connotation and “unreasonable” got a bad connotation in modern society. Comprise, consensus, and [...]
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