Jul 14What would your ideal day be?If you were fully choosing the story of your life, what elements would be included in your ideal day, and why? I asked myself this question and discovered that there was a tendency to stay a bit vague about ‘why’. For example, this morning was a lazy morning at the…Life Mission3 min read
Jul 8Beginning today, how would you choose to design your life?I’ve been contemplating the question of how I would design my life for a few days. What feels important about this question, inspired by The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough, is the word ‘choice.’ The way we choose to design our lives offers clues about our life’s mission. …Life Mission2 min read
Jun 26When you arrive at the crossroads, or turning points in your life, how do you decide?When it is time to decide if you will say yes to an opportunity, leave or stay with someone or situation, have an operation, give something, take a risk that could change your whole life, or allow someone his or her choice, how do you decide? …Decision Making2 min read
Jun 17Life mission as context for meaningIt can be challenging to see the context we are living, breathing and learning within. Life is just happening all around us, we are ‘in’ it, following the rules or not following the rules, consciously or unconsciously that are all around us. There’s a kind of acceptance of the ocean…Life Purpose4 min read
Jun 7A Year of Living Dangerously: a conversation about really livingMy friend James Tousignant and I had a conversation about what ‘a year of living dangerously’ means to each of us. Because our meanderings felt so fun and poignant, I’d like to share some of it with you here. This is the question we began with, drawn from my main…Life Mission4 min read
May 30What did you want as a child?I sit at the edge tonight as we are about to begin, thinking about the many things I have wanted over the course of my life. I could say they changed since I was young, and yet that isn’t entirely true. Most of what I want now, I’ve wanted all…Life Mission3 min read
May 20What’s your life mission exploration?What does it mean to be an explorer, to you? You might list traits such as curiosity, being in a process of discovery, and a willingness not to know where something is going. This can be true about exploring just about anything. In my mind, an explorer begins with openness…Life Purpose3 min read
May 10Inviting my life’s mission for teaWe tend to think of life mission or life purpose as an ‘it’ — a idea or concept we think about especially until we start to live into it. Then it might become an “I’ that we embody and identify our self ‘as’. …Life Mission3 min read
May 2For the love of the game… your game, the one you are meant to playPerhaps you’ve heard the phrase, ‘for the love of the game’ before in the context of sports. It’s a phrase that pops up now and again, signifying loving what we are doing for the sake of doing it. When I situate what I’m doing within the context of ‘game’ it…Life Purpose3 min read
Apr 27From Acorn to Oak Tree: a life purpose parenting story“An acorn will grow into an oak tree, and not a fig tree, a call the acorn is designed to answer.” — The Caravan of Remembering by Daniel Goodenough My 5 year old son is surrounded by kids his age who are physically faster and stronger. I sometimes hear comments…Parenting4 min read
