Small inspirational stories help you to build a dream (I cleaned it out of my drawer from AdvantEdge, Nightingale-Conant, 2004): When I was researching the history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became engrossed with the story of how the first bridge [...]
There are no ancients before me, No followers behind: Only the vastness of heaven and earth On this mountain terrace. Though heaven may know the ultimate, Joy or sorrow is our will. Sitting in solitude this morning, reading 365 Tao Daily Meditations, I was struck by the honesty and simplicity of this wisdom. The passage [...]
A perfect life is a bunch of perfect moments strung together: San Augustin coffee from Second Cup with cream, not milk, and a hint of cinammon, on the patio, with a light breeze. Watching Kailey sprint off the bench with her eye on the puck, reaching out with one hand on her stick, and curving [...]
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I have been reflecting all week on kairos. It has really struck me that a perfect life seeks to capture kairos. Finding kairos helps us to get away from all our “shoulds” and really focus on what we really want. I stumbled on another passage, from Mark Freir of What If Enterprises, that profoundly touches on creating [...]
There is a local grocery store change whose commercials are about finding a little space in your day for a little adventure. How perfect could your day be if you were always on the look out for an adventure? Let’s see. The kids caught their bus to school and next on my list is to [...]
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It seems that people are always looking for perfect: Here’s a post from Michael S. Hyatt, From Where I Sit: Last night, my daughter Mary and her husband, Chris, came over. The weather was unseasonably warm, so we sat out on the porch and talked. We reminisced about their wedding among other things. We laughed. We [...]
I keep being brought back to a lecture that I read by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay called “What Is Worthwhile.” Ms. Lindsay was the first female Ph.D. graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and she spoke to a graduating class in 1894. In her lecture, she suggests that one of the things that is worthwhile to [...]
What I first examined what it would mean to have a perfect life, I had many discussions about perfect. Once people accepted the idea, they tried to imagine what it would be like. One of the benefits of a perfect life is that you feel terrific almost all of the time, without artificial stimulants and [...]
