Warren and Charlie offered their annual insights for five hours. For over fifty years, they’ve kept it simple and quiet with peanut brittle and coca-cola.
David Whyte’s poem, Everything is Waiting for You, fits perfectly in any season of life.
Angela Duck confirms that curiosity has a direct correlation with positive feelings in our lives and relationships.
…there is a jazz trio: joy, generosity, and reciprocity. The music they make creates endless waves – each named ‘gift’ – upon which we can surf with our lives, relationships, and vocations.
At the center of our individual, small worlds, there is a scorecard and endless games that involve boundaries, rules, fouls, and the tallying of points as time expires.
Which center will you pledge your allegiance to?
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.
Watch any sport and you’ll find that the player or coach that creates space for himself or her teammates, is what we would call a valuable player and coach.
This trend continues the further we look into our lives, relationships, and businesses.
A nap, creates space to rejuvinate.
A walk around the block, creates space to release some negative energy and maybe just notice something beautiful.
A book creates space for a new idea, a new understanding.
A small investment, of any kind, creates space for tomorrow’s dividend to bloom.
A home can create space to grow as go.
A kind word just may create space for one to feel the warm rays of belief that can melt their loneliness.
Unfortunately, all too often, we choose to crowd these spaces we’ve been entrusted.
We crowd the soul, the heart, the family, the business, the calendar, the life.
Poor leadership crowds the psyche, the mind, the vision, and the places it has been entrusted.
What we need is space.
Be a space maker this week.
