Tag: motivation

  • Rebegin

    Rebegin

    Just like yesterday’s thought that you should keep all your passions and that consistency is best held lightly, here’s another one I’m reposting from Lucian James’ 24th Kō Strategy: The natural world is always changing, always in process. And so are you. You are not a thing, you are a process, a magnificent kind of…

  • Ask someone about their craft

    Ask someone about their craft

    This is so simple and so powerful. Any managers out there want to understand what motivates their employees? Want a surefire way to get a glimpse into a person’s values? Ask them a “craft question”.

  • Energy makes time

    Energy makes time

    I’m a big believer that being a little selfish is a prerequisite to being able to be selfless. In other words, you need to take care of yourself in order to take care of others.

  • Make some impossible magic

    Make some impossible magic

    “At times like these, we need to find people who can believe in impossible things.” Re-posting a story from a recent edition of Lucian James’ remarkable Kō Strategies newsletter. This is about an ambitious plan to levitate.

  • Being the best

    Being the best

    I used to wish I was the best basketball player in the world. But what if instead of my wish being granted by gaining great abilities, everyone else lost theirs? I think a lot of people who want to be the best at something would be ok with that type of outcome.

  • I started this blog…

    Let’s start at the beginning. I started this blog because I enjoy writing about and sharing ideas. I started it not because I presume to have a wealth of original things to say, but because I am constantly learning new things that are useful to me in the context of my life and there’s something…