Build your strengths and strengthen your weaknesses. This two part formula will take you a long way toward becoming the best professional you can be. (Yes, I did say weaknesses, not challenges. More on that here.) Our innate abilities express themselves through hard-won skills. A college roommate of mine was a classical guitar major. An…
Category: Timeless Wisdom
Polished Rocks
In a special space in my home, I keep a small collection of polished rocks. There are no more than eight or 10 of them. One is a crystal. Each landed in my hands from one source or another many years ago. One, the crystal actually, was given to me by a deeply spiritual and…
6 Musts for Reentry After Your Vacation
After a moving season of introspection, renewal and recommitment afforded by the Hebrew month of Elul and the Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it has been a great joy to sit for the past week in my Sukkah. I have felt a sense of closeness and celebration. Not to mention the…
Listening for Guidance
I believe that within each of us is an innate sense of knowing that I have long suspected gives us access to something deeper and truer than our minds could ever discern. I find a hint at this in one of the many metaphors for the Divine offered in the Biblical narrative. Among the many…