Morning! Hope your weekend included a few adventures and opportunities to open your mind. This quote from Carl Jung is a nice reminder that it’s easier to rely on patterns of thought we already have in place for assessing new experiences. But, if you’re present and really paying attention, you might find some new ways […]
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Starting off the week with a little truth about the truth, a topic we’ll talk more about later this week. It’s not easy, or necessary, or – honestly – always appropriate (yes, really…). But, if you’ve ever watched the truth unveil itself in a place where it hasn’t been spoken before, you know that it is hella
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Carrying our theme about decisions into this week for just a minute…this quote caught my eye recently and got me thinking. Last week, we talked about challenging choices, and how they sometimes aren’t as much of a struggle as you might think they are; it’s just a question of checking in to your intuition – your
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Hey there, and welcome to your week! Depending on where you live, it may feel like a big one. Maybe it does, regardless…Mondays are always a little challenging. Here’s a little wisdom from a potentially unexpected source, reminding us of where our power to be optimistic really comes from. Even if the week goes exactly as
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Depending on where you live, you may be seeing a lot of transformation around you these days. So in a sense, I see this quote and I think, welllllll….but, I get where Thoreau is coming from. I mean, this is also the guy who said this, so from his perspective, it’s all about the eye
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I’m loving this quote this Monday for several reasons. One of the great things about professional life in this day and age is that many of us will spend our careers reinventing ourselves many times over, if we want to. At the same time, however, we want our work to have meaning and impact, which
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A little wisdom from the literary world to start your week, which I hope is already off to a promising start. It’s a pretty powerful sentiment, coming from someone who’s famous for creating characters with exceptional abilities. Turns out maybe those abilities are just a starting point, for all of us. Monday mornings are rarely
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This quote really spoke to me this morning when thinking about all of you goal-oriented types out there, in some sense because I think you can read it more than one way. I mean, of course I love the present moment awareness aspect of it. Now is all you really know for sure, right? But
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When I teach mindfulness classes, I often start by saying that you need to have brought three things with you: your attention, your intention and your breath. By the time most people are voluntarily sitting in a mindfulness class, those three things are already front and center. It’s a little different in everyday life, though.
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A nice reminder here of what a mindfulness practice can help us tap into. Hope you’re enjoying a peaceful long weekend. 🙂 Photo credit: Maxime Staudenmann
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