Great Circle

I just read the latest post by Rosa Say & it really got me thinking (particularly the question she leaves us with). My thoughts go something like this:
So often

… we rush on to the next thing without enjoying what already is
… we reach a milestone but see it as a measure of how far we still have to go
… we tell our coaches and [...]

Yep, it’s that wonderful post-Christmas coming-down-off-adrenaline-and-contemplating-a-new-year time again!
If you are in the goal-setting frame-of-mind (or you’ve just come up with your New Year’s Resolutions), I have a question for you:
What will provide the energy to see these goals and resoutions through?
You may have just finished last year with a sense of “Damn. I really lost my way [...]

 
I was chatting this morning with a good friend of mine in Sydney. She was commenting on how totally unenjoyable her job was - largely because it had nothing to do with her vision and ambitions.  The pay’s ok, the people are ok, it’s just not what she wants to do with the good stuff inside her!
It got [...]

Sick of meetings? Finding you’re jumping through hoops instead of getting your work done?
You’re not alone and business commentators have been singing the praises of decentralising and debureaucratising workplaces for a couple of decades now. I love this recent post by Kevan Hall - and the picture at Slow Leadership expresses what most of us are thinking [...]

“Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow?”
This is the unfortunate motto of many an unfulfilled person, a person whose potential is far from realised.
Procrastination has been called an “energy leak of the soul.” It’s the “Path MOST Traveled”! The circumstances we live in today are partly due to choices we have made before. How much [...]

What do you hope for? What do you dream about?
World domination? Fame? Influence? Success? $$? Becoming a hero? Having great kids? Having a great partner? Being a great partner?? Creating something the world has never seen? Changing lives? Becoming great at what you do? Just finding a way out of the rut? …
Progress comes from [...]

I believe in all that has never been spoken.
I want to free what awaits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no [...]