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Category Archives: Put It Together
Abandon all hope of fruition – a contrarian view of project management
My last post talked about the Buddhist slogan of “abandon all hope of fruition.” What if we put that in the center of any project we were managing, either in our own lives or work team life? We’re left simply with, “am I able to find the delight/peace/fulfillment that is available to me at any [...]
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What is it like for a 62 year old rock star to perform?
“Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole time. And so on. Your adrenaline quickly overwhelms your conditioning.” – Bruce Springsteen This quote is from a great [...]
Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Six) What You Really Want
You’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi For the last post in this series I come back to what I mentioned before – how as humans we live in both worlds – the butterfly and the caterpillar, the glorious dream and the messy reality, the play [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Five) – Work is Love Made Visible
but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love’s confusing joy. – Rumi When I first read his poem fifteen years ago, I thought Rumi meant romantic love. I now know that definition of love is way too narrow. Love’s confusing joy can encompass any passion in life, any connection with [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Four)
If you want what visible reality can give, you’re an employee. If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish – Rumi Both wishes – just wanting what visible reality has to offer or just wanting what the unseen world provides – are foolish on their own. It’s the [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Three)
If you want the unseen world, you’re not living your truth. – Rumi I can easily slip into grandiose ideas and day dreams of myself. I can hear some musical master play something and say to myself, “I can do that!” I can come up with a long list of ways to make a song [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy (Part Two)
If you want what visible reality can give, you’re an employee. – Rumi Results. We want results. That’s what an employer is looking for. Progress, growth, success. And, as an employee, that’s the focus as well. There’s nothing wrong with being an employee, but I do the work I do because I believe that we’re [...]
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Love’s Confusing Joy: How April’s Passion and Play Come to the Rescue of Winter’s Persistence (Part 1)
The poet T.S. Eliot began his epic poem, The Wasteland by saying, “April is the cruellest month.” By that, I think he meant that April is a time of change and awakening. And as delightful as that is, it can be hard and even painful to wake from winter’s slow and quiet grip. I usually [...]
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When’s the Right Time to Tap Your Sweet Spot of Engagement?