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 …
Some mornings I get up with an idea in my head. The idea pursues me through my morning shower, my preparation for meditation, and buzzes around in my head distracting me while I am trying to be present in the now. It can hardly wait for me to finish meditating so it can pour itself …
Recently, I've been working a lot with Future Stories. Future Stories enable you to describe the future state of a project that you're working on, so that others understand that project and participate in making it happen. For example, imagine you are working on a strategic dashboard. You have met with all the stakeholders and …
When Claudius left Elena and her husband, little one, he wasn't quite sure where his quest would take him next. He recognized that he had hoped that one of his sisters would somehow provide the answer. While they had welcomed him into their homes and provided food for his journey, his reunions with them had …
When Claudius, my little one, left Athena's castle in the air, he didn't know which direction to go. But he knew it was important to keep going, so he turned his back on where he had been and walked deeper and deeper into the forest. The trees changed, the songs of the birds changed, and …
