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“Anyone can sound like Beethoven or Joe Pan or them other guys you said. But your music, what you do? Only you can do that.” –Tony Lipp, The Green Book During a blogging workshop I ran at the London Writers’ Salon, one writer named Ricardo asked: “I hear adv
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Building a Life
The two weeks bookending the close of one year and the beginning of the next are a special kind of purgatory for me. Not in the hellfire/damnation sense, but in its Latin origin: purifying.
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Career & Work
When setting my intentions for 2019, I wrote down “Become a World-Class Facilitator.” I didn’t really know what that meant, but I had a clue.
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Building a Life
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Career & Work
It’s crazy to think that this blog has been running on and off for 7 years. As I’ve grown and evolved, I’ve sometimes struggled to identify What is this blog about? and For whom do I write? At times this confusion has kept me from writing and sharing my work.
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Building a Life
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Travel Tales
I walked to the park and took of my shoes. Touched the soles of my feet to the cool grass, timidly patting around the base of a tree, careful not to step on something sharp or gooey. It’s vulnerable being barefoot. Skin to earth, exposed to the elements. I slid my back down its trunk
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Building a Life
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Career & Work
Last weekend I had the honor of officiating my sister’s wedding. Let me tell you, this was not an easy task. Well, logistically, it was ridiculously easy. The process of becoming ordained in the great state of California was about as easy as subscribing to an email newsletter. Name, email, and
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Career & Work
I’m a huge fan of Seth Godin. Author. Marketer. Ruckus-Maker. Seth is an author of 18 books. His most recent, This is Marketing, launched as a WSJ and NYT bestseller. His blog consistently ranks as one of the most visited on the internet. In fact, Google “Seth,” and he’ll pop
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Career & Work
Last week I wrapped a 3-day workshop at Airbus in Madrid with 46 talented senior leaders tasked with transitioning themselves and their teams into a new world of work. It was a little surreal. Especially considering years ago, I felt a fear.
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Career & Work
I remember reading the very first Word doc manuscript of Steve Markley’s Tales of Iceland. It was riddled with red squiggly lines – a bloodstained battleground of misspellings and grammar casualties. I was floored. Steve was a published writer – a real author! I had just admitted to m
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Career & Work
There’s a wonderful video of author Elizabeth Gilbert distinguishing between a hobby, job, career and vocation. Essentially she says: A hobby is something you do to keep life fun and interesting. With a hobby, the stakes are zero. You don’t need it to succeed. It’s simply something
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Building a Life
“You have traveled too fast over false ground;Now your soul has come to take you back.”– John O’Donohue, For One Who Is Exhausted, a Blessing There’s a sense that I measure my life by how close to center I am. That’s the word I use. Center. Not happiness.
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Building a Life
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. — Mary Oliver, “Sometimes” Each year on January 17th, I pay tribute to my friend Shannon. Sometimes in a blog post. Usually in solitude. A quiet thought, a walk alone, among trees if I’m lucky. My steps, my thoughts
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