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January 2022

January 27, 2022

Our Complicated Relationship with Endings

There is a strange dichotomy in the human experience between looking toward an ending and...

January 25, 2022

Victorious Living Does Not Always Feel Like a Win

One of the great difficulties of my adult life is reconciling the reality of success...

January 20, 2022

Culture is the Character of an Organization

I have always been a bit of a loner. I hated group projects in school...

January 18, 2022

Listening to Others

I used to think the primary goal for my life was to be heard. To...

January 13, 2022

Avoiding Choices

I have seen a few social media posts recently that say, “No resolutions for me...

January 11, 2022

Is Purpose Created or Discovered?

We work with a lot of different organizations. No matter where they are in terms...

January 06, 2022

Starting Anew

Statistics suggest that most New Year's resolutions are already in trouble, just a week into...

January 03, 2022

The Power of Structures

When we talk about corrupt or broken “systems” in our world, we are often really...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

A Rare Case for Gratitude for 2021

You certainly are not going to read this in a lot of places, but I...

December 28, 2021

Hope, Confidence, Chaos

I think if it were possible to become some sort of entity external to myself...

December 23, 2021

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

So, Christmas is a couple days away, but I doubt you need me to remind...

December 21, 2021

Getting Used to Four Seasons

I grew up in West Texas, where it is warm most of the year. Although...

December 16, 2021

Rejoice, Weary World!

Every year, I seem to become fixated with one very specific element of the Christmas...

December 14, 2021

When is it Okay to Hate?

From the time we are children, we are taught that hate is bad. No matter...

December 09, 2021

Discerning Friends and Enemies

It is not as easy as it seems to discern between friend and foe. In...

December 07, 2021

Barometers for Success

We all want success. One hundred percent of human beings are chasing after success. Gandhi,...

December 02, 2021

Outsourcing Turmoil

In a world where we value control so much it is an assumed obsession, why...

November 2021

November 30, 2021

The Home Stretch

With Thanksgiving in the rear view mirror, the holiday season is officially underway. So is...

November 25, 2021

The Subtlety of Thanksgiving

I have always thought of Thanksgiving as the most subtle of holidays. As a kid,...

November 23, 2021

Why Giving Up is Such a Popular Option

We like to give up. We don’t like to admit it, but the truth is...

November 18, 2021

How Vision Affects Movement

There is an intimate and often overlooked relationship between our eyes and our feet. We...

November 16, 2021

Good Guys and Bad Guys

There are a lot of ways a good guy, bad guy narrative can be beneficial....

November 11, 2021

Integrating Celebration and Recognition into Daily Rhythm

Recently, I have noticed how our work meetings tend to focus on the negative. People...

November 09, 2021

My Top Three (Unhealthy) Coping Strategies to Avoid Making A Decision

There are lots of decisions to be made every day. Lots. It is overwhelming if...

November 04, 2021

Searching for Reality: Daylight Savings

When I was a kid, the idea of daylight savings was completely bizarre to me....

November 02, 2021

Weep and Worship

Our first IVF cycle recently failed and we have received an abundance of well-wishes from...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

How We Wait

When I was a kid, there was nothing worse than waiting. I would whine, cry,...

October 26, 2021

What Is This Really About?

I read an interesting article today about the various angles of hypocrisy (spoiler: there are...

October 21, 2021

Thoughts on Grieving

After five years of trying to conceive, we just found out our first attempt at...

October 19, 2021

Laying Tracks for Meaning and Success

When I was in high school, I went to see a chiropractor. I was captain...