Category: Change Your Thinking
Using the Economic Trouble to Your Advantage
Below is an article I wrote for Christopher Lowman’s Moving Towards Peace newsletter, on why I think the current mess will be healthy for us all in the long run – even if it’s incredible painful in the short run. ———————- Americans are dealing with the worst financial and economic trouble in decades–and, unfortunately, it’s…
A lifetime happiness and focus enhancer: Vipassana meditation
It’s good to be back ‘online’ here! I just returned from an amazing 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat in North Fork, CA (near Yosemite). There were 120+ other people there, evenly split between men and women and ages from 20s-60s. Dhamma.org, describes Vipassana as: “This non-sectarian technique aims for the total eradication of mental impurities…
The current turmoil is a symptom of a larger business shift from “pestering” to “attraction”
Below is an email I recently sent to a group of inspired entrepreneurs in Washington D.C., organized by Klia Bassing of www.VisitYourself.net. I feel this note could help others see a new perspective on what’s going on with these financial and economic earthquakes. As painful as they are now, they’re helping us in an important…
Kauai update – some thoughts and pictures from our work + play event
In a post in May, The Power of “Why Not?”, I outlined some reasoning for “why not do some work from kauai?” A half dozen people agreed, and here we are now 😀 It’s my first time here, and Kauai is amazingly beautiful! For the first part of the trip, Will Jessup (founder, www.CitrusByte.com), Tony…
A “5th Work Option”
In 2007, while thinking quite a bit about what I wanted to do next in work and life, I realized along the way that what I wanted wasn’t among the most common work options you can jump into: A corporate job (working for someone else? Nah.) – I’m including “start a company that takes outside…
Thought provoking questions
I’ve been thinking about a PebbleStorm presentation that leads people through a series of questions. The objective is to walk them out of the day-to-day work mindset that traps people, to awaken them to the fact that they have amazing, untapped potential already there inside themselves…if they’re willing to discover and explore it. 1. Are…
Are you on a Hamster Wheel?
How did you make your last career move decision, whether between companies or within a company? Are you considering a career move soon? Will you take the next step up (a promotion/upgrade in your current function) because it’s easy and will be more immediate money, or will you decide to look for a right, non-obvious…
Work can be energizing. It doesn’t have to be exhausting! (And PebbleStorm’s “three phases”)
…and it’s true whether you’re an entrepreneur or CEO. True, in the past work did have to be exhausting – no one ate unless the fields were planted. But the only reason we still make work so damn hard on ourselves is our conditioning and cultural habits. We’re trained to believe that “enjoyment” and “success”…
The power of “Why not?”
I’m living as virtually as possible these days. As my Small Pebble, Big Wave Self-Manifesto says, my “perfect working world” includes working on what I want, when I want, and with whom I want (and I’ll throw in now, ‘from where I want’). I’ve structured my work and projects (both setting expectations or turning down…
The 3 things that block people from making money through enjoyment
1. Lack of awareness of what they enjoy, their purpose, their unique genius… or that they could even begin envisioning a 5th Work Option. It never occurs to most people (at least until they get fired or have some other serious life change) that until they step back and clearly rethink what their ideal working…
Project 2057
This 50-year vision came to me in a flash on August 9th, 2007, at lunch with Zaw Thet in Palo Alto. Ah I can remember the moment like it was yesterday 🙂 I wondered, what kind of big, hairy audacious goal would help inspire and focus not just myself, but the entire PebbleStorm community? [1]…