10 Tips for Mindful Work

Here are 10 general mindfulness exercises for when you are working. 1. Engage yourself in your work as if your job depends on it. 2. Become the best at what you do, not the best at gabbing around the office. 3. If you finish a project early, review your work and look for ways to [...]

Quote: Sherlock Holmes

From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet”: “You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the [...]

Some Thoughts on Michael Wade’s “Slowing Down”

Michael Wade wrote an excellent article entitled, Slowing Down, which I recommend you spend some quality time with. His brief article deals with, as the title says, “slowing down.” Namely, slowing down the ways in which we might rush through a project, an email or a piece of writing (slowing down our habits of living). [...]

Staying the Course: Difficulty Approached

Staying the course, or in other words, persevering, can be challenging. At least for me, it is challenging. Hence, one of the reasons why I have failed to write here in quite some time. As with most things that we tend to neglect, we have no “real” reason at all. We get caught up in [...]

Oh, Failure!: Elbert Hubbard

This is the first in a series that I am calling, “Oh, Failure!,” in which I will choose one quotation about “failure” and provide my interpretation of it. This is a subject that has fascinated and hurt me for years and a subject that I have much experience in (i.e. I have failed many times [...]

Walking Your Path

“Many paths lie before you. Some paths highlight quiet sitting in peaceful surroundings. Some paths highlight sharp action and danger. Some paths are highly visible to others. Some paths require many hours of isolation. Your path is individually designed for you. You discover it only by walking it. Looking back, the twists and turns make [...]

Jose Ortega Y Gasset on “Decisions”

Our lives are continually affected and altered by the decisions that we make, the paths we choose to move within and about, the paths we choose to realize. As you already know, you can’t not decide and therein lies the difficulty – the difficulty of choice. It is a perpetual “trip” through the choices that [...]