If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all it’s ardour and paradoxes – than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside of the constraints of work and the struggle for survival. – Alain De Botton, The Art of Travel
Escape from Cubicle Nation
While I wasn’t quite prepared to talk about Cultivated Living then, the workshop was the push I needed to start talking about it. There’s plenty more that I learned from reading Escape from Cubicle Nation and attending the workshop, but this has made a huge difference.
A Little Piece of Texas
This weekend is one of the craziest weekends in Dallas every year. It’s the last weekend of the Texas State Fair and TX-OU weekend – when the fans of the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners descend on Dallas for the Red River Shootout!
Why Your Personal Development Matters
“[W]e can’t change the world ‘out there.’ And fortunately we don’t have to; we can begin much closer to home. We can begin ‘in here.’ In fact, if we’re to succeed, we must. Because the chaos isn’t ‘out there’ in everyone else. It’s not ‘out there’ in the world. The chaos is ‘in here’ in you and me.”
Create Your Own Compass
The intent of this post is to get you to do something… To create your own compass. Sometimes even very intelligent people confuse knowing how to do something, or reading about something, with actually doing it. I count myself in the ranks of this group from time to time…
Adding Beauty to Your Life
Here are my 15 tips for adding a little beauty to your life inexpensively. Enjoy!
Finding Flow
Finding Flow is the kind of non-fiction I love to read – informative and ACTIONABLE! It’s easy to make real changes in your life based on the overarching idea of increasing the number of flow experiences by increasing the amount of active v. passive leisure activities you pursue
How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?
“Having leisure at one’s disposal does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively,” which is NOT an innate skill. Without this skill, leisure can actually be potentially dangerous to mental and physical health!
Setting Year-End Goals
Maybe it’s the end of summer and coming of fall or memories of a clean slate with a new school year, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about setting goals for the end of 2009 to continue the momentum of changes I’ve been making in my life.
Being Still: A Prerequisite for Good Change
In this modern world, activity and movement are the default modes, if not with our bodies then at least with our minds, with our attention. We rush around all day, doing things, talking, emailing, sending and reading messages, clicking from browser tab to the next, one link to the next. We are always on, always connected, always thinking, always talking.
