Put your phone away and schedule your auto responder; take a vacation you busy worker bee. Decide how balance can benefit you, maybe lighten your load with less material clutter (we hear the book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up will help you in this process), or drop a weekly commitment that's robbing you of your joy. Are you halfway into something? Jump in headfirst or get out. Celebrate friendships. Watch the first time we landed on the moon. Think in awe about all that you couldn't have accomplished without your independence. It's a contemplative month with some cleaning up to do. … [Read more...]
Never Give Up and Never Give In
From Chapter 12 “Indefatigable” in Ingredients of Outliers. Up High at Show Low Not long ago, I participated in my first triathlon in eighteen years, held in a town named for a card game. Show Low sits at 6,412 feet at the base of the White Mountains in northern Arizona. Remember the opening scene in the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire, where a group of men are running barefoot, effortlessly, through the crashing waves on a beautiful beach, with the orchestra playing an inspiring melody in the background? (If you never saw the movie, or you’ve forgotten that scene, it’s … [Read more...]