Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

The Beauty of Passion

This is not going to be a long post. I just finished the facilitating the biggest open space of my career — about 300 people intensely sharing their passions for six hours — and frankly, I’m both exhausted and delirious.

The Samurai & the Strawberry

Today I woke to nothing but good news.

A positive, caring text message from my personal assistant. An email sharing the joy of an evening well-spent by a friend in Ann Arbor (illustrated, no less). A request from a major news network for an interview…

Value, Cherish, Devote

val·ue: to regard or esteem highly: He values her friendship.

cher·ish: to cling fondly or inveterately to: to cherish a memory.

de·vo·te: profoundly dedicate; consecrate

overcome obstacles by working with them

Dance, Don’t Scramble

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The Keeper of the Lost

Welcome! So glad to see you, finally. I’ve been expecting you. Here, have some wine — it’s a wonderful German red, “Dornfelder Rheinhesen”, and I’ve been saving it with some of this cheddar for just this occasion.

The $100 StartUp Life

All the bad days have two things in common: You know the right thing to do, but you let somebody talk you out of doing it.
- Tom Bihn as quoted by Chris Guillebeau, The $100 Startup

And you say to yourself, this is not my beautiful house…this is not my beautiful…

Remembering Love

Technically I missed a day. Finally, after 92 posts, I missed the deadline and a Monday went by without a post on love.

I had the best of excuses. I was ending a long weekend at a conference filled with people and subjects and activities I love. Plus, it was Memorial Day…

“All in…”

…even if you’re not playing with a full deck.

That phrase came up in a a workshop brainstorming session about intimacy and vulnerability. It speaks to one of the more difficult aspects of love: the courage to admit you do.

Archetypes to the Rescue!

Rock On

Every once in a while I’m taken by what I call “Talking Heads Syndrome.” That is, I find myself behind the wheel of a large automobile, and I realize This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife.

How did I get here?

“It’s all about choices…

The Life and Death of Practice

I’m starting to lose my faith in habits.

The conventional wisdom is that anything you do for twenty-one days in a row becomes a habit, and therefore becomes far easier to do — in fact, it becomes harder to not-do whatever that practice is.

A 15 Minute Success Story

Greetings from Ypsilanti, Michigan, where I’m staying with a close friend for a couple of days before heading to Chicago where I’ll be facilitating the biggest unconference of my career. On friday, I’ll be holding an open space for 500–700 people traveling from all over the world…