In our NYC adventure, we have been to museums, nice restaurants and not so fancy-but-still-delicious restaurants, wander the streets as much as we could take it in the heat and somehow the event I feel I need to write about is our trip to the laundromat. It just felt like the most New Yorker thing we have done yet. The… Read more →
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Friday reFlections #FrF Connectivity & Translation
Starting a tradition only works if you keep at it. It would have been easy to let this fall off the wagon this week, but here I am! I am going to push through this. This week has been super busy. By Monday evening I already felt like it had been a whole week’s worth of insight, connections and energy.… Read more →
Kindness of strangers
It was a simple gesture, it happened without so much as a word exchanged, it would be easy to forget, and yet it really made an impression on me. While exploring the streets of Hanoi, we made it to an intersection and paused as the motorcycles and cars whizzed past us. We attempted inching forward, but as this was our… Read more →
Running slower
This week I had the chance to talk to my life coach mentor and good friend, M on skype. It is the first time we have talked since I left for my trip over a month ago. We talked about how I lasted about 6 weeks before I needed to start working again, about a few mutual friends, about where… Read more →
Reflection time
So, it has been a week of giving myself 2 minutes a day and I thought in true design thinking form I would reflect how it is going. Like every practice there are ups and downs and opportunities for improvement. Here are a few of the lessons learned this time around: 1. keep at it 2. let go of expectations… Read more →
Let passion lead the way!
In my quest to learn to do nothing and in my happiness project I have found one thing. If I let passion lead the way, I will never get lost. I have always believed when setting life goals that setting specific milestones can set you up for disappointment or confusion, but when you set coordinates your journey will figure it… Read more →
Practice makes…
Perfect? I don’t really believe in perfect, so I am just going to say practice makes for more practice. It would have been easy for me to let myself “forget” to write for 2 minutes today, but then I thought if I slip this time, what is to stop me next time? Today I thought that the inspiration would hit… Read more →
Knowing Your Influence
Having influence is an invisible power that can be used with authority for good or evil, like trust it needs to be earned and can easily disappear, but using it well can be extremely powerful. I was reminded of this when I observed a young boy eating lunch with his sister, mom and nanny today. His nanny tried to feed… Read more →
Tests of Life
In the school of life, the tests are always pop quizzes and the answers are never in the back of the book. Being on this trip, the tests usually come as small and infrequent bursts of frustration or confusion and then pass quickly. Sometimes the small pieces stack on top of one another and that is when the outbursts come,… Read more →
Giving Yourself Time
In a world where people constantly say they don’t have enough time, they are overworked, over-stressed and under appreciated, I want to give myself time. I met a young man yesterday who takes 2 minutes a day to write a story, so by the end of the year he will have some sort of book, or at the very least… Read more →