At a leadership camp in high school, we played a game called “Win as much as you can.” The punchline of the experience (that obviously made an impact, because I’m telling you about it 40 years later!) was that the “you” was plural, not singular. The winners were a team, not an individual — much to the disappointment of the individuals who thought they’d been successful in their solitary pursuit of the victory.
Continue reading “Who’s the You?”New Levels of the Same Game
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.” ~ Carl Jung
Continue reading “New Levels of the Same Game”Know the Game You’re Playing
As I type this, it’s the first day back to work after a couple of glorious weeks of family time. And although a quieter house and cooking for fewer people is easier, I wasn’t yet craving getting back into routine. (Having to brush the snow off my car both before and after my 6 a.m. gym class did not improve my mood this morning!)
Continue reading “Know the Game You’re Playing”Build Some Scaffolding
I’m no builder. But I do understand that builders use scaffolding temporarily to help them reach hard-to-reach places and to keep themselves safe. They remove it when they don’t need it anymore, but they also wouldn’t dream of building something big and new without it.
Continue reading “Build Some Scaffolding”In Good Company
As we near the end of the year, and this series on learning to love liminality, I want to land in a highly pragmatic place: all of us are in between things all the time, so we might as well learn to like it here!
Transitions are the norm, not the exception. In fact, we’re almost always navigating more than one at a time. In a recent study I commissioned with 1,219 midlife participants across Canada and the US, 40% reported being in the midst of more than one transition.
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