This morning, I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning. You know when you wake up and you're not quite awake enough to figure out why you're awake? So you lie there, thinking thoughts until it finally occurs to you, oh, I'm awake, what time is it anyway? and then you try to …
There you are, minding your own business, and all of a sudden - blammo - it hits you: performance evaluation season. Ugh. No one likes performance evaluation season. First, it often hits at the same time that the fiscal year starts; so, just as your budget gets approved and you are plunged into the fray …
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I have been meditating a lot lately on safety. If you asked me what I fear, I don’t know if I could pinpoint something in particular – a fear of catching Covid, a fear that the government will collapse, a fear that my colleagues will figure out that I really have no idea what I …
When I was first learning to meditate, I used a CD from the meditation teacher, Jack Kornfield, a great CD to use when you are first learning. One of the meditations that he introduced on this CD was, what he called, a meditation for dying, which he said Buddhists practice when they are on their …
What works better: coming down hard on someone who rebels against the change you want to see – or coopting them to be part of the solution? When I was managing change for Barnes & Noble, this was something I gave a lot of thought to. In the decades that I worked there, we regularly …
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