Where I live, we’re two weeks away from the start of school after summer vacation. I no longer have kids living at home, but this remains the season of new backpacks and fresh starts. It is a very in-between time, where I’m not yet willing to say summer is over, but a new season is definitely looming, and I want to be prepared. My heart aches and leaps for all the families who are anticipating the fall with that potent mixture of excitement and dread.
Continue reading “Sit with it just a little longer”Pattern Interruption
Most of us don’t relish getting interrupted. And we usually apologize if we do it to others.
But what about choosing an interruption? Or at least welcoming one when it comes?
That’s my invitation to you today.
What pattern could you intentionally interrupt? And what benefits might that decision bring your way?
Continue reading “Pattern Interruption”Safer Surprises
This is a story of two menus and two restaurant patrons.
The first menu consisted of three lunch selections, presented orally to the diners: “Meat, fish or vegetarian?”
The second menu also consisted of three lunch selections: “One course, three courses or six courses?”
Continue reading “Safer Surprises”Draw on all your senses
You know what it feels like to have been sitting in one position for too long — the muscles that have been bent strangely and stuck in one spot are basically useless for a bit until you get them moving again.
Can this metaphor also apply to our senses, or to other ways we process information? I suspect so.
Continue reading “Draw on all your senses”Inject Beauty
As I write this, I am starting day four of a conference called The_Dream, hosted in Sintra, Portugal by the House of Beautiful Business. So it is perhaps not surprising that I have beauty on my mind.
We always have an opportunity to inject some beauty. It may happen in small, temporary ways.
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