Work well provides mindfulness- and awareness-based solutions to maintain balance at work and in everyday life. How long do you expect you’ll live? Honestly ask yourself. And does your life expectancy matter to you? In addition, what quality of life would you like to have as you age? In Dan Buettner’s The Blue Zones, we learn that, in specific regions of the world, … [Read more...]
Creator Mindset: Hearing Yes in a Sea of No
My grades in high school were pretty bad. I mean, they weren’t terrible, but they certainly weren’t college material. More like junior college or any school that would admit students without a transcript. But who could blame me? I was busy. Very busy. I had to make the best jokes in class. I knew my jokes were truly funny when the teachers would laugh. I had a … [Read more...]
Work Well: Finding Direction and Stopping the Drift
What do you want? Close your eyes. Place your hands over your heart and take three big breaths. Ask yourself: What do I want? What do I want? What do I want? Do you have an answer? Is your mind blank and you don’t know what you want? Can you quiet your mind to provide you with some clarity as to what you want? Did you judge your response? (Hint: try not to – … [Read more...]
Creator Mindset: Routine
People change jobs. They change spouses. They change where they live or what they drive. But people rarely change themselves. I think perhaps we are all too absorbed in the routine of our day-to-day lives. I know I can often be. We think about what is directly in front of us without consideration for what might be coming. And we spend far too much time absorbed in our own … [Read more...]
Creator Mindset: Make Your Work a Service
I have been in the creative field in one way or another my whole life. Sometimes as a vocation, sometimes as a side gig, and sometimes on the margins. But the one thing that sits deeply within the construct of The Creator Mindset is understanding how the work I produce touches others. I’m conscious of it. Be it these columns that I write in the paper or talks I give at a … [Read more...]
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