I don’t know about you, but out of curiosity and whim, I’ve tried a number of times to “stop thinking” and park my brain and leave the “engine idling” there for a while, and I just can’t do it. Maybe if you’re a Zen master it’s possible, but not for me. Within seconds my internal [...]
This may sound crazy, but if you really want to be a successful leader, you need to set yourself up for failure. What??? Shouldn’t that be: set yourself up for success? No, because the fact is that there is no single leader ever who has not failed at one time or another. We all fail, [...]
Must ado has been made about the revealing of Mother Teresa’s “Dark Night of the Soul” as some people have been calling it. In a nutshell, the major topic of debate has been over whether it’s appropriate or wise to serve God and follow His commandments without any active sense of God’s presence in one’s [...]
Is there a price to pay for getting whatever you want and having whatever you need? There most certainly is, and it’s called boredom. And apparently boredom is one of the unfortunate outcomes of our overstuffed, overfed, consumerist Western lifestyle. Reading this article about the modern phenomena of boredom, I recall the stories I’ve heard [...]
