Perhaps you’ve found your passion in life or even found a few. Now what do you do? Where passion is a choice born out of our unconscious, the life we create is born out of the decisions we make and actions we take. It is up to us to face the future and imagine the… Read More
Without Passion, Why do it?
I’ve written about finding our passion through exploration recently. After writing the posts, I came across an article within a copy of the May 2015 Popular Science magazine a good friend gave me, Nothing but the Truth (http://www.popsci.com/nothing-truth) by Alan Lightman. The article talked about “science’s greatest weakness is also its greatest strength and talks… Read More
The Passion of Our Business
Passion is an eagerness to fill a need and provides an energy we can use to fuel our actions from sex to running, studying to flying, or from doing the best we can at work to writing a book. It can feed our understanding of process and systems or allow us to connect with people. … Read More
How Do We Find Our Passion?
As we discussed last time, passionate living is finding the playful eagerness within ourselves to live and create the life we value. How are we supposed to do that? The key to unlock our inner doors of passion is exploration. The word explore is from the mid 16th century Latin ex- (out) and plorare (utter… Read More
What is Passionate Living?
I recently came across a couple of things speaking of passion. The first was Isabel Allende giving a TED talk telling “Tales of Passion.” The second was a blog I follow on WordPress about “The Follow Your Passion Fallacy.” Both were interesting in their own right. However, I was struck with their relation to the… Read More
Do You Expect or Create?
I learn so much from my kids. I don’t know who’s wiser. Earlier this week, my wife and I had to get after them for bickering and even fighting. Well, my 8-year-old daughter smacked my 4-year-old son for something she didn’t like. We had to have discussions with both of them about how our son… Read More
Managing Constraints
Keeping things flowing amidst a myriad of constraints is the essence of management. This is true for a mid-level manager in an aerospace company, a line supervisor, a restaurant chef or us as individuals. We are faced with requirements, constraints and expectations all the time. Finding a way to meet a goal or bring about… Read More
Do You Look or Do You See?
To look at something means to gaze your eyes upon or acknowledge something’s presence. In order to see, not only does one look at the object but we also understand it and pay attention to it. The roots of the word look go back to before 90CE. The verb comes from the Middle English loke… Read More
Our Passage
What we were, are and become are the cobblestones along the passage of our lives. Each step we take along our path takes us out of the past and into the future. Our actions set the stones along the way. Our decisions are the mortar setting the stones in place. Our reflection on our… Read More
Unexpected Learning
I was cooking in the kitchen as I normally do on the weekends when I over heard my son saying to my wife, “fuss over me.” “Mom, fuss over me.” Being four years old his mind is pretty straight forward. I tend to be more of the disciplinarian in the family and my wife is… Read More
Business of You 