When I take the time to reflect and try to be objective about an experience that I’m having, it gives me the opportunity to explore what’s below the surface. When I first learned about the feeling wheel, I really was amazed at how we can describe various emotions in such detail. As part of the …
Parallel U(niverse)s
You may have noticed that I like to explore metaphors & symbols as ways to make an idea more tangible & concrete. It’s a bit of a game to see how far I can push the boundaries of the metaphor before it becomes a bit brittle or forced. A book that I recently finished has …
Fear & judgement as impediments to Flow
Lately, I’ve been digging into the concept of “flow” and finding what helps me get into that state, and what impediments I need to work through. What triggered this for me was an honest look at how I can seemingly get into a state of flow with non-work activities like baking bread or playing music, …
Habits & Gravity
A few weeks ago, I was listening to an episode of “DarrenDaily”, the daily podcast of motivational speaker & coach Darren Hardy, and he relayed the story of a student & master walking through a forest. The master directed the student to destroy a small shoot starting to appear through the undergrowth. The student did …
