“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell
Following on from my comments last week on forward planning, this week I though...
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Well, it’s that time again.
It’s New Year’...
In my last word before a break for the holidays you were going to get a few words of nonsense about my dog, but then I received the following comment in an e-mail from my 87-year-old dad.
“I think tha...
It goes without saying that this has been a year beyond measure – and in so many ways.
What I find particularly fascinating is not so much what has happened but how we have responded; how we have pul...
In the “great white north” where I was raised just about all insects either expire or hibernate long before the onset of winter.
Homes are therefore virtually bug-free, to the point that an encounter ...
This week I want to try to address the hardest place for any person to access: it’s that dark musty closet under the stairs, in the most inaccessible corner of your mind, where you store all the stuff...
“Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.” Speedy Alka-Seltzer TV jingle
Can you believe that there are only forty-four days left in this year?
When I was younger, I remember being told that th...
“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” Ben Hogan
Is golf a metaphor for life?
That’s the question I was asking myself last week as I ...
Ironically, one of the biggest challenges of being a successful leader is that you actually do make progress personally and professionally and reach a point where you have accomplished some of your ma...
I have a confession to make: the dog ate my homework.
Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what happened. Maybe the truth is more like I had planned to write a really scholarly article about the challenges of...
