Posts Tagged ‘learning what works’

Sugar detox

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Shawn

When you’ve gone through a holiday season and KNOW you’ve eaten way too much sugar, you might think you should do a sugar detox. It sounds like a great idea, especially if health and well being are among your top values. But I encourage you to think long and hard about that decision! [...]

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Permission to make mistakes

Posted on October 25th, 2009 by Shawn

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath
I did a presentation recently about embracing change. The president of the company wanted me to emphasize that change and growth required innovation and the willingness to make mistakes.
It was so interesting to feel the room go cold when I mentioned making mistakes being [...]

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What is your life saying?

Posted on May 12th, 2009 by Shawn

Being authentically and vibrantly alive requires some soul-searching and a great deal of self-exploration.  With a world full of outside influences, we may not even see, much less know, what we are really about.  Parker J. Palmer writes about learning to listen to what is important:

I was in my early thirties when I began, literally, [...]

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