My entire life has been characterized by a yearning for wholeness. My career in strategy and all my business writings have focused on this idea of moving from fragmentation to coherence within organizations. And now I am seeing how much that external narrative characterized what I needed to do inside myself. The world "out there" [...]
Transformation! Such an overused word... light enough to be tossed around like a frisbee, yet heavy with the gravity of possible meanings. It suggests the process of turning into something completely different, which sounds pretty scary... and fortunately untrue. A caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, but its essence is still the same. The outer appearance [...]
Another mini-crisis of "what the hell am I doing" hit me during my 48 hours in Lyon, France. To be clear, I’m not questioning whether I should be doing this crazy adventure; I know that that I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, metaphorically and spiritually speaking. No, it’s the stability-versus-freedom question I wrestled with [...]
“How are you affording all this?” my mom asked me the other day when I shared my upcoming travel plans. It’s a good question, since I haven’t really been working during my midlife crisis. But what most people don’t realize is that it’s far cheaper to live in most countries of the world than in [...]
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