Isn’t that idea humming in the back of your foggy mind these days? Maybe you feel as if you’re moving more deliberately (okay, slowly) anyway, as if your mind seems to be processing a bit more, uh, deeply, too. So, why not honor that fact and fashion spacious pacing and pausing into an art?
Despite the world’s weight these days, we human beings by necessity must dream better ways to live and work, lead, and play into reality. We can rise wisely and together.
Today let’s seek trends for hope that lead to the need for you and me to dream of a new 2023 story sooner than later.
It’s the 2008 summer Olympics, and gold-medal winner Michael Phelps is poised to break his own record for the 200-meter butterfly swimming race – a competition that no one could touch him in. But then this happens: After Phelps’s first turn, his goggles fill with water, and he cannot see. Not being able to see should…
https://vimeo.com/739061108 Canoe Talks is a video series of unconventional wisdom in an unconventional setting designed for mindful change-makers – entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, business owners, and professionals. Strategist, teacher, and author of TRACKING WONDER Jeffrey Davis responds personally to questions raised by a reader and Tracking Wonder Community member. Today’s question about resistance comes from one of our…
“Yikes. I have no idea what I’m doing.” That’s often the first thought when we embark on something new — whether it’s a location, place of employment, or skill. The anxiety of unknown challenges and experiences often impedes our career success. This anxiety often leads to avoiding the situation altogether and to behavioral inertia that…
With how much innovation and development occur in 21st-century society, it’s easy to assume that creativity follows a similarly meteoric rise. Virtual reality video games. Fusion Cuisine, combining the practices of disparate cultures. Barrier-breaking performance art. All of these experiences take a high level of creativity to conceptualize and see through from the design process…
A recent survey found that 75% of workers have suffered from burnout. The pandemic helped create a similar but different emotion that sufferers have described as a general feeling of emptiness: languishing. Luckily, there are ways to interrupt the cycle and move toward a state of flourishing once more.
When the church bells toll 1 pm throughout Italy, you’ll find workers and school children scuttling home while small businesses and banks alike close up shop. Within an hour, the cobblestone streets are empty. It makes no difference whether you’re in Rome or some remote village, everyone heads home for la pausa: “the pause.” This…
Burnout hits nearly every entrepreneur and creative at some point. Your neck and shoulders ache. Your temper is irrationally short. You are more reactive than creative. You worry more than wonder. It feels like there is no time for envisioning the near-future because everything feels immediate and urgent. But if you keep pushing forward this…
5 tips to sustain focus and drive while working from home If you don’t normally – or ever – work from home, the “shelter-in-place” mandate can pose a serious disruption to your daily or weekly workflow. With all this extra time on your hands, you might have thought you were going to get more done,…
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