“There’s a certain wisdom that begins by knowing that, of course, you, like everyone else, are pretty difficult.” Alain de Botton As we glide away from this Valentine’s month, I want to take a fresh look at love. Don’t get me wrong. I love love. Love is at the center of my life and my work.[…]
The dictionary says the verb “love” is “to like or enjoy very much.” One of the outcomes of bringing love to work is that everyone is happier/more satisfied at work. Every single person at work wants to be seen and valued. Connections based on respect and caring create a culture of well-being. A new CEO[…]
Tess, a new supervisor, complained about the people she supervised. “If it weren’t for the people, I’d love this job,” she bemoaned. “They are adults. Don’t you think they could just do their work?” Tess was always magical when working with adolescents. But now, working with adults, she somehow thought that love, compassion, and understanding[…]
Here’s a great way to start 2021. Become the instigator of joy in other people’s lives. What? Wait a minute? How? Create little delights for other people. They can be simple, yet pack a wallop. A business client of ours began to make her husband’s lunches. It took very little time and effort. It made her[…]
There is a young man named Choi who was abandoned by his family at age 3 and then ran away from abuse in a foster home at the age of 5. He lived on the streets, selling odds and ends to make enough money to eat. His home was a container box in the red[…]
For many people around the world this time of the year celebrates light. For many, this has been a darker than usual year. Amazingly, even without much light, there is a light that never wanes. It is the light and love that glow in our hearts. Sometimes we can’t see our own light…..yet others reflect[…]
We’ve been moved by the former Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, who speaks about the biggest disease in the world right now. He says that more than the diseases that come to mind, loneliness is the most prevalent disease. It seems rather strange in this century that loneliness could be the thing people suffer from the[…]
Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things. –Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Thanksgiving is one day for giving thanks. But in these fraught times, one day is not enough. Many people are feeling pandemic fatigue, loneliness, itchiness to get back to some semblance of regular[…]
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries. It is a great song Doris Day recorded in May, 1967. Ginger Rogers sang and danced it in 1960. Perhaps the bowl of cherries has not been your experience this year. Individually, we can make the lists of all the disruptions and hardships of 2020. A very easy-to-do[…]
Two-year-old Lila announced, “Nobody’s at the door.” Then she said, “there is onebody, me.” Recently, we have been taken with the spontaneous language and playfulness of children. Now you may be thinking that this story sounds like sweetness and light, that we’re talking only about a child. What if we, as adults, were more lighthearted?[…]