Are Your Spread Too Thin? — Energy & Purpose (Video)
Energy & Purpose About ten years ago Tony Schwarz wrote an article in which he suggested that we shift our efforts from managing our time to managing our energy. Time, he suggests, is a finite...
View ArticleIce Dancing Couple Who Fell Should Get a Gold Medal
My wife and I happened to turn on the Olympics earlier this week when they were televising the ice dancing competition. U.S. Olympic skaters Madison Chock and Evan Bates were the embodiment of grace as...
View ArticleWhat Would Happen if Joan Baez married Mahatma Gandhi?
Here’s Joan Baez: “Action is the Antidote to Despair” And now Gandhi: “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment — full effort is full victory.” – Gandhi If we combine their wisdom, we...
View ArticleWhat’s Holding You Back?
What’s Holding You Back? I’m teaching an online course called The Art of Taking Action based on my book by the same name. In the first part of the course the goal is to build momentum. It doesn’t...
View ArticleHow Do You Deal With Deadlines?
Dan Ariely is a Duke University professor that conducted an interesting experiment about ten years ago. He set up three classes, and each class had three weeks to finish three papers. Class A had to...
View ArticleImpatience and Intuition
Last night we rode by what used to be our favorite Vermont bakery. It’s been closed for quite some time, sadly, but it used to be a scrumptious, creative, community-minded bakery. The path to the front...
View ArticleThe Art of Taking Action (Audio)
The Art of Taking Action (Audio) A Podcast Interview with Gregg Krech, author of The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology By Mike Vardy, Productivityist On this episode of the...
View ArticleThe Fourth Quarter
There are lots of things that can be divided into quarters. A dollar. A loaf of bread. A basketball game. College. A tank of gas. And, of course, a year. We are now in the last quarter of the year....
View ArticleWhat to Do Before the New Year
There’s only a few days left in the year. What can we do to bring the year to a satisfying closure? How can we use the remaining days to help launch a brand new year? There’s a tradition in Japan...
View ArticleWe Begin Again: Wisdom and Inspiration for the New Year
An elegant collection of some of our favorite quotes to inspire you for the New Year. Inspiration by Albert Schweitzer, Pema Chodron, C.S. Lewis, Wayne Muller, H.G. Wells, Ho Sen, Barry Schwartz, and...
View ArticleHow Purpose Helps with Pain
It’s been sixteen days since my knee replacement surgery and one of the things I’ve learned about is dealing with pain. When they slice open your leg and insert a new bionic knee one might expect that...
View ArticleAre You Disappointed with Your Progress?
Are Your Disappointed with your Progress? I think Pema Chodron has the best book titles: When Things Fall Apart The Wisdom of No Escape One of my favorites is: Start Where You Are It’s just common...
View ArticleWe Know What We Need to Do and We’re Not Doing It
Don’t try to think yourself into taking action. Don’t wait until you’re feeling better. The term used in Zimbabwe for anxiety and depression, Kufungisisa, means “thinking too much.” Do you sometimes...
View ArticleRegrouping for the Second Half of the Year
On behalf of LIFE, welcome to the second half of the year.On July 1st I conducted a member webinar to encourage people to step back, reflect, and regroup for the second half of the year. There are 180...
View ArticleWhy Your Work Disappoints You
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you...
View ArticleOption B
A year ago my good friend, Trudy, began organizing a birthday party for her mother who is 100 years old today. It was to be an international event (near Vancouver, Canada) with dozens of people...
View ArticleThe Distress and Grace of Impermanence
Whether we like it or not, we have to work with the world’s impermanence. And the way to work with it is to respond to change according to what needs to be done. It’s not about how we feel (frustrated,...
View ArticleUncertainty as a Path to Action
“Every year some clients he knew well died from their alcohol and drug use, while others grew stronger in their recovery. When he saw new clients, he never knew which way they would go. It was a good...
View ArticleSing While There is Voice Left
Sing While There is Voice Left by Trudy Boyle I read a book, as a young 20 year old living in Montreal, called Sing While There is Voice Left. It was written by a theologian and I remember nothing...
View ArticleThe World is Not Just Crazy. It’s Crazier Than That.
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