by Brian Fippinger | May 6, 2013 | Embodied Leadership, Passion, Practice
Follow your passion. Sounds easy, right? Isn’t that something that we have heard from the time we were little people? Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life, goes the old cliché. Over the years of talking to hundreds (maybe thousands) of...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 16, 2013 | Attention, Learning, Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
They were in line at the coffee shop just ahead of me. She, a petite, young blond with doe-blue eyes; he, an older, slight man, perhaps a Greek or Italian immigrant, with broken English, twinkling eyes and a smile the width of his face. While ordering him breakfast...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Oct 18, 2011 | Learning, Mindfulness |
Recently, in the midst of a full day prepping for a class, seeing clients, working on a marketing piece, and anticipating a full evening at home with my family, I ran across this quote by Wayne Muller, author of Legacy of the Heart and Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal,...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 27, 2011 | Attention, Mindfulness, Resilience
Think of setting your intention for the day as the process of turning on your internal GPS system to orient you to where you want to go. Ultimately, it’s to that Big Life Commitment of yours; however, for today, it’s being clear that you’re actually...