What’s the point? Of any of it? For me, it is the unrest that comes from acknowledging what is wrong in the world. Poverty. War. Violent crime. Social justice issues. Inequality. Racism. Choose your weapon. It isn’t hard to see problems in the world. My point is not to point them out, but to try and posit solutions. Or pathways to solutions. Because I’m sick and tired of armchair, short-term, quick-fix ‘solutions’ sold by various…
The KEW Acid Tests ask how Nature can inform the big questions humans ask. “Why are we here?”, “Who am I?”, and “What is our purpose” have puzzled humans for years – perhaps millennia. In the past 4,000 years or so, we have employed philosophy, religion, and science as mechanisms to ask and answer these big questions. While we certainly have learned a lot, the questions are too big to have definitive answers. I don’t…
I’ll bet you ten bucks that you have had an experience that begs the question, ‘How Can I Tell the Difference?’. A simple and benign example might be whether or not you are being selfish. Your friends ask where everyone wants to eat and you say, ‘Taco Bell’ because (for some reason) you REALLY want Taco Bell. Then you might wonder (especially if you are an empathic, codependent, people pleaser) whether or not you are…
In Episode 32: Work/Life Balance I shared my thoughts about how to find time to meet all the various needs we have. In this episode I want to focus specifically on balancing time spent working toward our careers with time spent with our families. And for those of you without spouses or kids, your family can be your parents, siblings, friends, coworkers or any other people you value and spend time with. The main career/family…