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 …
When you have too much to do, do you share the work? Many people are suffering right now because of the overwhelming amount of work that they need to do, at work – which has been complicated and made more intensive by WFH – and at home, where the woman’s work that was never done …
I have written before about how I used to be chronically late until, one day, I disappointed someone whose opinion about me was important to me. Then I made up my mind to be on time and I worked at it and worked, until I am now someone who is usually on time. That I …
