Your New Year's Resolution
Here's my invitation: For New Year's this year, choose just one resolution. And instead of adding something new, make your resolution about letting go of some practice that drains, districts, or undermines you.
Spark Blog
Reflections and ramblings from leadership coach Peter Schulte.
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The season of good cheer?
This, so they say, is the season of good cheer. We are all encouraged and perhaps even expected to be merry and light, tickled red and green with the spirit of Christmas. And yet, I know that for so many of us the holidays feel nothing like this.
Thank you, screens
If peace and satisfaction are truly what we are after, perhaps simple gratitude is our best path there.
I'm not for everyone
The more I show up as the most authentic me, the more I will draw some people (“my” people) toward me, and the more I will inevitably turn others away.
Writer's block
Are you stuck somewhere in your life? What added devotion might you offer to the universe? Where might you release yourself from unnecessary rigidity?
Seeking out evidence
Rather than objectively observing the world, we often bend, filter, and distort what we observe to confirm what we already (consciously or unconsciously) believe to be true.
Goals vs. dreams
Maybe I don't have to be constantly striving and struggling to feel fulfilled or complete. Perhaps I can simply listen to the mysterious call of the universe within me and move myself toward it, without any need or expectation that I ever arrive.
Gaza
I stand with anyone on any side working earnestly toward true peace and justice for all. And I feel lost because I'm not sure who that is or how to translate that into meaningful words or actions.
Who you really are
There seem to always be deeper, more expansive aspects of ourselves to uncover and operate from. There is always another horizon to explore.
Your gifts to the world
What we consider our gifts are not really meant for us. We are just the middle man, the delivery mechanism. They are not just gifts to us. They are ultimately meant as gifts from us.
My new life goal
Perhaps a new life goal is starting to come online for me: to care a little less about my life goals, to just enjoy being here, to revel in those little flickers of joy, beauty, and wonder wherever I can find them.
Football season
What "guilty" pleasure might you more fully allow yourself to just have fun with?