Effectiveness over Efficiency.
Using our limited time wisely.
I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.
~Maria Popova, in a reflection on . . .
Embracing Discomfort
A Daily Practice
Over the past few months, I have tried to make it a daily practice to embrace discomfort.
At work, in my relationships, in my creative life - I am working on getting comfortable with discomfort.
Why? I have realized that my world gets bigger when I take uncomfortable actions.
I think of reality - and a future . . .
Think Like A Boss
At various points throughout my career, I've fallen into a rut.
Most of us have experienced this at one point or another. We feel like our job owns us, and it's not a good feeling.
I used to channel that feeling of dissatisfaction and lack of autonomy into a variety of channels - looking at job postings, checking up . . .
Helpfulness
I flew on a small plane with extra small overhead compartments the day before yesterday.
They asked us to check our carry-on bags before boarding the plane, and then we retrieved them right after we get off.
During the retrieval process, the airport workers had wheeled the cart of suitcases into a little nook which only two . . .
A Bias Toward Action
I recently read The Everything Store by Brad Stone about Amazon and Jeff Bezos.
One of Bezos' key tenants that really stuck with me was having a "bias toward action."
I introduced the phrase to our team at Green Zebra, and I am slowly trying to integrate the principle more into my daily life - both at work and . . .
Taking the long road
Is not harder if the journey is the destination.
What's your long road?