Who will I be tonight? Declaring I’m Enough
We always get to choose who to be in any moment. At a fundraiser I attended this week, the moment of choice was more obvious than it often is. In…
The Seven Stones Blog
We invite you to explore our thoughts, ideas and reflections on our journey through the maze of scarcity into our understanding of Sustainable Abundance.
Guest Blogger: Biology First, Taking Care of the Body for Sufficiency’s Sake
This week we share with you a post from one of our Enough, Already course participants. Ana writes here to the rest of the cohort inside of the community exploring what…
Overfed and Undernourished
Overfed and undernourished. This is such a good metaphor for the primary breakdown of our American culture. On a 2000 calorie per day diet, we eat food that is depleted…
Allergic to Failure? Me too. Here’s a practice
Nobody likes to make mistakes. But I really don’t like to make them. I have not liked to make them so much I would not even try, not publicly anyway….
The Societal Metronome in My Head
What societal principles guide our lives? Many of course, and many that are invisible to us. The one that presses most into our lives is the cultural pace, what I…
Great Meetings are Required for Great Work
Many of us spend a lot, no really a ton, of time in meetings. During a meeting of my client’s I sat in on to observe recently, I noticed no…
Grace and Grit: Leadership in the Face of Trauma
Dear Ones: Will this world ever rest in peace? In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the incredible trauma it caused for so many, we have been thinking…
Transition Practice
In yoga class, and other mindful movement forms, we learn that breath directs our attention, and we learn to slow down transitions between postures. I’ve taught yoga and I’ve said…
The Dynamics of Enough and Failure
fail (feyl) to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved (from www.dictionary.com) It doesn’t take us long to develop a comfort zone. Our comfort zone contains those areas where we are reasonably confident we’ll succeed—whatever that means to…
When Nothing is Enough
My colleague pinged me late last night and asked if I posted a blog. (Monday’s are my posting day.) “No,” I replied, “I have nothing to say.” I mean, I have…