Recently, a friend who is a prominent business person apologized to me for not getting back to me in a timely fashion. But who am I to judge when the time is right for this person to get back to me? That started me thinking about a time when I shut a family member out
What is your definition of living life? You may think spending 60 hours a week in the office and then rushing to a business-orientated golf outing on Saturday is living life, but it’s not. To truly live life, you need to be interacting with all the different parts of your life—family, friends, nature, and yes,
Recently, I attended my 30th Expo West, the natural and organic products expo in Anaheim, California. Interestingly, the conference challenged me to put to use the principals of the Kaleidoscope blog I published last week in my A-Z of Business series. I was able to recognize and enjoy the changing patterns and different perspectives of
When I was young I was fascinated with a kaleidoscope. To begin with, the reflections appear to be a fragmented view of the world around you broken into complete chaos. You can move the chaos either by moving the kaleidoscope around, or by spinning the end of it. Yeah, yeah—we’ve all looked through a kaleidoscope,
This week I was thinking about another “J” blog and how to follow up on the Joy Through Mindfulness blog I published last week. I felt inspired—maybe it was going dancing last Saturday night or maybe it was thinking about the idea of someone walking down the street, almost dancing as if to music that