From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner IF GOD SPEAKS anywhere it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes the blood run cold. We fail a friend, or a friend fails […]
From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new
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From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon The final element is execution. The only way a strategy can get implemented is if we dedicate resources to it. Good intentions are not enough – you’re not implementing the strategy that you intend if you don’t spend your
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From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Advertising gurus know that we scrunch our noses when we’re being sold something too hard. They know that they can no longer capture us by simply showing us a beautiful and happy-looking person drinking a particular brand of soda. For the past
From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr All we can give back and all God wants from any of us is to humbly and proudly return the product that we have been given – which is ourselves! If I am to believe the saints and mystics, this finished
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. I DISCOVERED THAT IF you really keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention to it, even such a limited and limiting life as the one
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From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Working out of the legendary Santa Fe Institute, where he served as president until 2009, West assembled an international team of researchers and advisers to collect data on dozens of cities around the world, measuring everything from crime to house-hold electrical
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From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr Whether we find our True Self depends in large part on the moments of time we are each allotted, and the moments of freedom that we each receive and choose during that time. Life is indeed “momentous,” created by accumulated moments