Posts Tagged ‘extraordinary’
Example is the Greatest Teacher
We have very few rules in our family. We call it our “way”, like Bushido is to the Samurai. It’s a practice based on our ethos, rather than a set of rules to adhere to. Rules serve no purpose on the path to enlightenment or self actualization. My wife and I are deliberate in all…
Read MoreThe Space of Possibility
We like to plan things. We analyze and strategize until it’s safe enough, comfortable enough, responsible enough and socially acceptable. Finally, we have the perfect plan. Then we run it by friends and gauge their reaction. If all goes well, we execute. As a brand developer and activist, I’m constantly analyzing and searching for root…
Read MoreAnd So We Leap
AND SO WE LEAP AND SO WE LEAP We all know what it’s like to dream that life could be better. Some spend their lives dreaming, and never actualizing them. Others take big swings from time to time. Some are tormented by their lack of courage to follow their dreams. And others are expert dream…
Read MoreThe Year of Your Perspective Bank
At our core, I believe each of us operates according to our perspective. Our beliefs, judgments, actions, inactions, fears, loves, desires and infatuations are founded in our perspective. Each of us has an perspective bank full of experiences that happened to us or that we specifically sought out. We don’t choose the environment we…
Read MoreWe’re Gonna Need More Phils
I met Philip almost three years ago on our first night in Mombasa. Ilea and I showed up at his eighth story flat in the center of town. He graciously welcomed two strangers into his home that was already overflowing with life (largely in the form of other travelers that also became close friends). He…
Read MoreThe Power of Perspective
What is perspective? It’s how we view the world; the lens we see through. It’s the platform from which we make decisions. It dictates how we react to the world around us. Every experience influences our perspective. The more experiences we have, the more robust and powerful our perspective becomes. Life happens, and those experiences…
Read MoreLife in the Nuances
In the fast paced developed world, we are largely a “big picture” society. We look at the world from 30,000 feet and can’t be bothered with the details or nuances of life. We’re busy and have important business to attend to. CEOs and Directors spend most of their time just skimming over the top and…
Read MoreEmbracing the Gray
Society constantly pushes us to simplify life down to black and white terms. But I’ve found that the much of the beauty of life is discovered in the gray areas. Those areas that teach us, refine us and reveal who we really are. It’s where we find our character and what we’re made of. It’s…
Read MoreYou Can’t Calculate Enlightenment
Life should be cherished and experienced, not measured. We spend so much of our lives measuring what we’ve done, how good it was, if we met the goal and so on. Our “status” has become a quantifiable algorithm ranked by how many followers, impressions, and likes we have in our social networks. People still crave…
Read MoreDon’t Wait Your Life Away
No, that title isn’t typo. Earlier this year, my friend Philip sent me a link to Bronnie Ware’s book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. My father and I actually referenced it in our new book, Wisdom Meets Passion. Suffice it to say, Ware’s findings were profound, and worth discussing. Regret 1 I wish…
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