Love Monday Blog
I’ve been a Mac user most of my computer-literate life. I love my Mac, but there are some things that I find easier in the Windows environment. Locating files is probably the biggest thing. For some reason, I felt like I could never find things on my Mac or even them file them...
These days many of us are feeling overworked.
It’s a condition of our times driven by an explosion of information, a proliferation of communication platforms, and the high number of job openings.
I remember how I felt when my department grew at one point. I inherited the internal...
If you’re thinking about leaving your job, you should know that there is a wrong way, and a right way to do it.
I’m going to review what I believe is the right way. We will explore not burning bridges and some other advice you’ve probably heard before. But I have a bit of a...
When we find that through the vagaries of life, or just due to our own interests and passions, our to-do list swells beyond the limits of time, we have but a few options.
We can endeavor to do less or do it faster or we can manipulate time.
Our language lures us to the idea that...
Only 34% of employees are engaged in their work according to a 2021 Gallup poll.
Engagement is a measure of employees’ involvement and enthusiasm in their work and workplace. You can imagine that for employers, it’s an alarming statistic. Gallup ties engagement to many...
There’s an ancient story that goes like this:
Before we are born, our soul gets to choose who we will be in this lifetime. The soul chooses what its character shall be from amongst a myriad of possibilities. A guardian then accompanies us to help us be faithful to what we have chosen....
Sometimes, when you’re on the treadmill of life, you’re hustling too much to slow down and ask vital questions like why am I doing this? What is it all moving toward? Is this what I’m here for? Is this what I’m meant to do?
It feels like we have to work so...
OK, now don’t get mad at me, but you’re probably a Prostitute.
I don’t mean that people pay you to have sex with them. I mean it in a broader, archetypal sense.
The Development of the Prostitute Archetype
We all start playing the role of the Prostitute when we are...
Last time we were talking about how you have to get uncomfortable to achieve your dreams. Remember the concept of growing pains? It’s a physical phenomenon, yes, but when it comes to the non-physical, it is not just a metaphor. It’s an accurate description of what you must go...
The Sopranos as Therapy
I’ve been binge watching The Sopranos for the last several weeks. That wasn’t an option back in the 90s/00s when it originally aired. I’ve seen most of it before, but what I’m struck by now is how strangely relevant the show is to my life and...
You don’t go around challenging the Law of Gravity much, do you? Most of us know exactly what will happen if we step out of a ninth-story window. But at the same time, we are unwittingly courting trouble through our lack of knowledge about many other natural laws that govern our planet....
