Anytime an opportunity presents itself, we want to give it out best effort. It could be a task, a conversation, or a challenging problem to solve. Deep down, we want to give it our all, and those on the other end of it assume that we will. This could be our boss asking us to…… Continue reading Best Effort
Category: Reflections
4) The action of turning (back) or fixing the thoughts on some subject; meditation; serious consideration
5) A though occurring to or occupying the mind; a thought expressed in words; a remark made after reflecting on a subject.
The Place To Be
It is easy to come up with excuses why not to do something we’d really like to do. There are the seemingly legitimate ones around prioritization driven by obligations elsewhere, the practical fanned by our age, health status, or other circumstance, or the worst of all, those that present themselves in the moment when we’re…… Continue reading The Place To Be
Assignments
School is simple. The subject matter itself may prove complex, but the concept of school itself is simple. An assignment is given by the teacher and the student has to do it in the time allotted. The task may be of no interest to the student, or it could be overtly challenging, requiring hours of…… Continue reading Assignments
Getting to the Root
Questioning our own thoughts and actions is an extremely valuable exercise. But it is not something to be taken lightly. Posing one question is better than nothing, but seldom is it one and done. We’d do well to question our answers, to dig as far as we can so that we may arrive at the…… Continue reading Getting to the Root
Questions vs. Quotes
There is a line in the novel Dune where Duke Leto, referring to a man who always has a quote for at the ready, says, “Someday I’ll catch that man without a quotation and he’ll look undressed.” Many of us can be referred to in this regard. Perhaps not in the intellectual sense, but in…… Continue reading Questions vs. Quotes
Original Thought
In the film Good Will Hunting, a pompous, pony-tailed Harvard student flexes his intellectual muscle in front of some girls as a means to embarrass the character played by Ben Affleck. Matt Damon’s character, Will Hunting, the street tough savant with the photographic memory, eventually steps in, pointing out that all of the Harvard student’s…… Continue reading Original Thought
4-19-2022
We like to think there will be a day when we will no longer have any worries. No longer have to fight. This thing called life, it will come easy to us. Something will happen, some moment, where our troubles will disappear and we can finally sail off into the sunset. It is the notion…… Continue reading 4-19-2022
Presence
The present is beautiful. And yet so many of us let it slip by unnoticed. Too wrapped up in what might happen next, thinking we have to figure it all out, when all we really have to do is exist in the present moment. In doing so, the future will take care of itself. When…… Continue reading Presence
Rest
Many of us live divided lives. A gap exists between who we are and who we long to be. And for plenty of us, this divide can be traced down to the difference between who we are in the morning and who we are in the evening. A divide that can be bridged through rest.…… Continue reading Rest
Throws
In his interview with Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin mentioned that when he is teaching someone to juggle, he tells them not think about the catch at all. Simply throw the ball and let it fall, again and again. Because it isn’t about the catch, it is about perfecting the throw. And when the throw is…… Continue reading Throws
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