Spending/Saving Time We are a culture obsessed with time—how much we have or how little we have. We are also under the illusion that we have time to spend or save as we choose. But as the saying goes, time waits for no one. Time just is. It is there whether we are or not [...]
Like riding a bicycle, once we learn how to drive a car, our body remembers and we no longer have to think about it. On automatic pilot, we start the car, shift into gear, step on the gas, and off we go. Of course, we check the mirror, look over our shoulder, and watch for [...]
I became a painter because I wanted to raise painting to the level of poignancy of music and poetry. Mark Rothko I don’t want to be struck by lightning and don’t need certain slants of light in order to write. Toni Morrison The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad [...]
Discovery 2:1 – The Second Step: Seeing Clearly & Letting Go …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:9 – We All Want To Be Happy In a flash, in a blink of an eye, in one moment the dissatisfaction we experience in our work life can be transformed into deep [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:4 …continued from Reaching Out When I was a child I happily went to church and Sunday School every week, said my prayers nightly, and had many conversations with my friends about God as we tried to grasp the idea that God was not born, He just was; a concept I [...]
The effort that many of us put into not doing something or the time we spend thinking about doing something can be extremely stressful and anxiety producing. If you procrastinate, you probably worry about all the time you’re wasting as you think about getting started. You probably don’t waste as much time as you think [...]
I’ve been doing some drawing and painting lately for the first time ever, and really trying to bring my Beginner’s Mind to all of it. The quotes this month are all from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which has been sitting on my bookshelf unread since it was published in 1989. Until [...]
Discovery 1:9 – The First Step: Understanding & Acceptance …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:8 – Security in Being the Victim We can be happy, even at work. But first we have to come to a truthful, non-judgmental understanding of why we’re unhappy. It’s easy enough to recognize our [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:3 …continued from Fear Were you a happy teenager? Did you like and trust people? If you were anything like me and many other people I know, the answer to these questions would be a resounding NO. When I was a teenager, I had decided that other people, especially adults, could [...]
