“Do for the love of doing, for the love of others. That’s unmeasurable, and profoundly life changing.” I have had several conversations over the past week about alternatives to living without goals. Some people just can’t live with the pressure of a looming deadline for a goal. It’s no secret that I love Douglas Adams. Let me quote him: I Read more…
Over at the Get Rich Slowly blog, they pulled out lessons from the documentary, “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” that can help with your current job or career. Some of the advice includes falling in love with your work. He writes: “Dream jobs don’t simply work their magic because you find them; they do because you marry them for life and Read more…
Over the past few years I have changed my language to better reflect my beliefs. In all that I’ve accomplished in my life, I have never been one to set goals. It became a challenge for me because in one of the classes that I teach, I required students to come up with 3-4 goals to work on through the Read more…
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” -Douglas Adams That is one of my favorite quotes by Douglas Adams that has had a huge impact in my life. Recently on zenhabits.net, Leo Babauta writes on the experience of doing without an end goal in mind. This Read more…
Article: Go Easy on Yourself, a New Wave of Research urges I ran across this article and was intrigued. Self-care is hugely important in any field, but especially seems to fall to the bottom in helping professions. This means the very people who strive to care for others sometimes neglect to turn that amazing compassion towards themselves. “The research suggests that Read more…
