Discovery 1:8 – The First Step: Understanding & Acceptance …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:7 – Blaming You are not separate from your life. Life and the way you live it are not two different things. You do not stand outside your life and watch it happen to you. [...]
Discovery 1:7 – The First Step: Understanding & Acceptance …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:6 – Expectations! When something goes wrong (and something always does if “wrong” means “not as expected”) how often do you step up and take responsibility? Or do you see it as blame and try [...]
…continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:5 – Our Ordinariness “Expectation is a premeditated resentment!” When I heard someone exclaim this many years ago, it reached my gut and exploded there sending shock waves of truth to every part of my being. It gave me a keener and deeper understanding [...]
Our Ordinariness …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:4 – Follow the Leader Do you compartmentalize your life? Do you have a work persona that is different from your leisure persona or the persona you bring to your intimate relationships? Who is the self that you bring to work each [...]
Follow the Leader …continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:3 – Things Change In Western culture we are conditioned to praise the individual on the one hand and to be like everyone else on the other. As children we are taught how to fit in, follow the rules and play [...]
…continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do – Discovery 1:2 Few of us deny that the natural events in life—birth, death, illness, and aging—cause us pain, grief and sorrow. We accept that these occurrences are natural, yet each time we encounter one we allow ourselves to suffer and rail against the injustice, the [...]
...continued from 7 Steps to Loving What You Do - Discovery 1:1 Understanding and Acceptance Have you ever noticed how people (perhaps even you) seem to hate change and yet always wish for it? This mood of dissatisfaction expresses itself in our lives and most especially in our work. How many people do you know [...]
When I arrived last Thursday at Garrison Institute for a four-day Contemplative Care retreat and learned that there would be 108 participants, I gulped that number in and took a stroll outside to soak in the beauty and quiet before they all arrived. As I watched them stream in, I exclaimed out loud, out of [...]
