The first of the month can be a great time to pause and reflect on the aspirations and intentions we created for ourselves and our organizations for the upcoming year. Many of us chose new habits and behaviors to be established as the year turned –at one month in, let us pause together and assessRead the Rest…
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Posts Tagged ‘Personal Leadership’
All or nothing, the curse of ambivalence – Part 1
May 11th, 2011 - 1 Comment
It is Monday morning, the regular time for our Seven Stones staff meeting, and I am not on the phone. Instead I am preparing for a walk with a baby wrapped around my body. In this baby carrier, I look like I am still pregnant, and I may as well be. It’s the fourth trimester,Read the Rest…
Budgeting Time
April 29th, 2011 - No Comments
Budgets are the foundations of businesses and families that run smoothly. Mostly we budget our money, planning out how to spend our expected income, using our needs, values and desires as guides. We also budget our time. We often do this less explicitly, unless we take Rosemary Tator’s courses within her More Time for YouRead the Rest…
Sufficiency, how it changes
March 9th, 2011 - No Comments
Sufficiency is so not a right or wrong thing. It is a declaration and a practice. It is elusive and concrete. It is a paradox, a box for Pandora to laugh into, hollow and full, all at the same time. It is a mindset, a set of actions, a moment, a set of moments, aRead the Rest…
Resilience
January 20th, 2011 - No Comments
A well known professor was once asked at a dinner party, “Professor, you have children in different generations. From your experience, what would you say is the most important thing you could teach your kids to thrive in life?” And he answered, “Resilience. The most important skill is having the ability to fail, or fallRead the Rest…
anatomy of a breakdown
November 3rd, 2010 - No Comments
I still regret my mistake. I don’t prescribe to “everything happens for a reason.” Though I didn’t accidentally end a life, what I did stinks and was wrong. Sometimes that happens. And, we were able to acknowledge, adapt and learn. These actions are the foundations for coping with uncertainty, for an ever fast changing economic (and political and social and climate) landscape, and for shifting into a new paradigm.
cleaning house: why wait? (part 2)
October 27th, 2010 - No Comments
Why did I wait? I waited out of fear and avoidance, distraction and disillusion. I was scared. I was in scarcity-thinking. These are some of the powerhouse weapons of scarcity I use most. I think now I can claim that when something piles up and hangs around in my space, that it’s an indication I am relating to it in scarcity, not like it’s wrong or bad, but that it might be starting to suck my energy and drain some attention from what I care about.
The Next Right Thing: the gift of consumption (Part 2 of 2)
September 1st, 2010 - No Comments
In my physical discomfort due to morning/all day sickness, the past several weeks I have eaten a lot and watched a lot of TV – a lot being the operative descriptor here. I have been feeling strange about this, habits I have overcome from my younger years coming back in spades. I’ve been coping byRead the Rest…
The Next Right Thing (Part 1 of 2)
August 27th, 2010 - No Comments
I once heard conventional wisdom that sounded something like this. “Smoking is not inherently bad. It was useful at one time in the life of the smoker. When it ceases to be of value, then it becomes something worth letting go of.” To me this was an explanation of a coping strategy, and by copingRead the Rest…
