One of the questions I get all the time from students of the inside-out understanding is “how can a deeper understanding of the principles behind the human experience help me to be more successful in my career or business?”….
One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed in over twenty five years of working with clients is that given their skill level, hours logged, network of connections, and arena they are working in, most people are pretty much exactly where they ought to be on the path to success.
When I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was an executive stress thingie my dad had called “Pin Art”. If you’ve never played with it, pin art is a box of thousands of thin chrome pins that you can put whatever you want into (generally a hand or face though I shudder to think what else found its way into that thing) and it will retain the shape of what you put into…
Since I began writing regularly nearly fifteen years ago, I’ve written well over a million words, published over a thousand blog posts, and contributed writing in one form or another to more than a dozen published books. And yet every time I sit down to a blank computer screen, I wonder if this time the words will flow. Four days in five they do, and I am able to complete my writing for the day in one uninterrupted session. Ah, but that fifth day…
I was wandering around the beautiful town of Claremont, California last weekend, when I stumbled across The Claremont Forum, a part of the nationwide Prison Library project and one of those locally run places that clearly exists because the people who run it love books almost as much as they love people…
