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Who Speaks For You When You Can’t Speak for Yourself?
An Advance Care Health Directive can save your life and help make life worth living. Here are tips for how to find the best legal directive forms and how to get past emotional or spiritual issues so you can name the right persons to speak for you when you can’t speak for yourself. Continue reading
For a Breakthrough Vision, Get Naked
There’s a great reason many visionary geniuses get their best ideas naked in the shower: being divested of your usual social masks, ou’re not worrying so much about what others think. You’re just focused on coming clean, more receptive to new ideas, more relaxed. Here’s how to be “naked” emotionally and spiritually so you can access your own best wisdom. Continue reading
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If Congress Were the Visionaries We Need Them To Be
The recent debt deal shows how un-visionary Congress and the electorate are. Here are a reminder that without vision we perish; with it we can thrive. Here are a call to action for Congress and us to get past our distortions and divisions, then find a vision that solves problems and guides us into something better. Includes wisdom from Abraham Lincoln, who knew a lot about leading a divided country. Continue reading
Without vision, we perish
Want Economic Turnaround? Create It! Wall Street is too untrustworthy. Government is too partisan, and media are too obsessed with who’s sleeping with whom to envision an economy that works for all. Fortunately, fellow citizens are creating a variety of breakthrough ways to create a better economy. Continue reading
The Mockingbird Solution to Blocked Creativity
Though humans are born with the potential to be far more creative than mockingbirds, the high creativity that bubbles in us as five-year-olds is mostly repressed by the end of second grade. One of the easiest ways to recover that creativity and develop it is to imitate the mockingbird. Here are 8 tips for how to do that — to enrich your life and workl Continue reading
For Inspiration for Work and Life, Walk in the Woods
Because the power to be visionary is loaded in our DNA, it’s possible to have a compelling vision for life and work any time, anywhere. But there’s no more natural visioning time than fall, when nature itself is gloriously transforming; no better visioning exercise than a walk in the woods. Continue reading
If Lawyers Can Thrive by Meditating at Work, Anyone Can
Need some proof that meditation and other spiritual practices are useful, not flakey at work? Need REALLY PRACTICAL stuff like how to get through everyday challenges like too much to do, too little time, too little appreciation or support? Look no further than the legal field. Continue reading
Mother Theresa – A True and Authentic Sales Model
Mother Theresa offers a model for selling as spiritual practice — especially compassion, combined with clarity and commitment, in service to others — says Carol Costello, author of “The Soul of Selling.” Here are some tips. Continue reading
Seven Good Reasons For Thinking About Work When You’re On Vacation
It’s as if, while on vacation, you turn off your inner radio station that won’t shut up with the negative self-talk. Instead, you’re more receptive to the quieter, more profound messages from your heart and soul. Continue reading
The Work of Our Life; The Life of Our Work
If you think of work as only the means to earning money, you’re missing work at its best — like work with meaning, work with joy, work that stretches your talents, engages your body and spirit as well as your mind, and sends you home inspired by deeper connections with other humans and the earth. And if you think of work as something that ends when the official workday ends or when you retire, you’re not considering how rich the work of our lives is. Continue reading