Category Archives: Business

Wisdom Alchemy Vol. 5

I hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving!

Here’s a little bit that I crossed paths with this week….

Paradise Now by Tim Mackie, PhD. May we all trade our wounding for wonder and enter the mystical experience of Paradise that is always available, at hand, and among us.

Everything is Waiting for You via David Whyte. This never gets old and is one of my top ten favorite poems.

Warren Buffet’s net worth shows us a great snapshot of gradually, then suddenly….

Take, Thank, Break, Give via the Center for Action and Contemplation.

The River You Touch / Chris Dombrowski was our guest this week @ Good / True / & Beautiful Podcast. So very grateful for his friendship and work in the world.

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Episode 187: Effortless with Greg McKeown

Greg McKeown has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t.

The definitive treatment of this issue is addressed in McKeown’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.  As well as frequently being the #1 Time Management book on Amazon, this book challenges core assumptions about achievement to get to the essence of what really drives success.

McKeown is the CEO of McKeown Inc. Clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!.

His writing has appeared or been covered by The New York TimesFast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Inc. Magazine. He is among the most popular bloggers for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencers group: averaging a million views a month.

In this latest episode of Good / True / & Beautiful, Ashton interviews Greg on his latest book, Effortless.

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Using your notes…

Every day you can stop, reflect, and ask two questions…

‘What’s working?’

&

What’s not working?’

A simple pause amidst the noise just may let the music start to play.

Ashton’s Weekend Read(s)

The art of letter writing is something I’ve noticed leaders do very well. I’ve read two letters to shareholders in the last couple of weeks….one short, one very long. Jeff Bezos ends his final letter as CEO at Amazon in the way only he can. And Jamie Dimon has the sharpest vision I’ve seen.

Godin on Investment and Expenses.

Love and Friendship from the Center for Action and Contemplation.

Red Bird Explains Himself by Mary Oliver.

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