by Brian Fippinger | Sep 2, 2020 | Passion, Purpose
This is a picture of one of my favorite places on the planet. Piper’s Alley, in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, circa around 1970. It was a place of Hippies, great music, inclusion (heck, I had been going there for a couple of years by that time, and I was only 12 in...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Mindfulness, Purpose
You might be wondering about it, too. “Shouldn’t I be adjusted to this whole pandemic thing by now?” With the uncertainties that COVID’s ushered in, spikes in stress and social isolation, increasing levels of anxiety, and exhaustion are now the norm. What...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Practice, Resilience
What are you practicing these days? Whether practice makes perfect (my first-grade teacher said so) or if practice simply makes better (my aikido sensei teaches this), it makes good sense to know what we’re practicing. In fact, as human beings we’re incapable of not...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 1, 2020 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
It’s official. Life as we’ve known it is over, at least for the moment. None of us could’ve prepared ourselves for how unsettling the novel coronavirus would be to our daily routines. Our old routines that once seemed drab and repetitive, now fill us with a sense of...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 10, 2020 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
I’ll confess. I take them. Do you? Maybe at your doctor’s office while flipping through a magazine. Or when skimming the internet late at night. While checking Facebook or LinkedIn on the train. You come across the quiz that will reveal all. The assessment that...