

Art, Music, Culture, Beautiful Food, and Presence
To fire up, and actually re-condition, the parts of your mind that are keeping you in the present in a state that is healthy, wise, and...
Presence Requires Your Emotional System
Presence requires your emotional system. What takes you out of the present? Perceived threats. What do we interpret as perceived threats?...

Hope? Abandon it in Favor of Presence.
"Abandon hope... stay present instead." I've been tempted to make a line of t-shirts to carry this message. 'Abandon hope' is Pema's. I...


Strategy Thinking™ Monday Mantra
We use the now to tell us the next moves. We listen rigorously. We stay grounded. We take cues. We adapt. We think deeply. We guide. We...
Less Stuff, More Happiness
Take a 5 minute break to consider.... GETTING RID OF YOUR CRAP!!!!!!! (Literally and metaphorically) We have three times the amount of...
Background Noise or No?
This article doesn't entirely ring true for me, but I think it's interesting. I like my noise in particular ways, on certain days, and...


The Iceberg Illusion - Success and Failure
This is a great image. When I talk about strategy thinking™ and my inside out business process I use with clients, a significant...
A Complex Personality Means Expressing Your Full Range of Traits
Thank you @ShaneParrish @FarnumStreet for the following post. Click here for original post. This beautiful excerpt from Mihaly...


In Order to be Open to Creativity
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being...
Your Elusive Creative Genius
Enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's infamous (and lovely) TED talk to round out the week on creativity, genius, strategy thinking, and truth.