Daily Letter
Rambling thoughts on why we do what we do, strategy, building teams, building you, and doing work that matters.
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Monsters and Mermaids
Something for today, and maybe this season the phrase Terra Incognita. It first appeared in Ptolemy's work in 150 CE and variations thereof were used to designate unexplored territories on maps. Some maps read..
and 5 6 7 8
I love dance, not so much to dance, just dance. Proper choreographed serious dance. I went nuts when Sia's Chandelier video came out.
what do you do when all the doors and windows are closed?
Sometimes when a door closes, a window opens, and sometimes you have to go head first
This is what you trained for
"This is what you trained for."
Those were the first words I said to my team and to our community when the lockdown was announced.
All that time spent on your meditation cushion in silence learning to let go, the time spent on retreats doing all that grinding inner work, this is what that was for.
Is it too late to start...?
Is it too late?
When the lockdown was announced, my first words to our community were,
Optimist or Pessimist?
To write or not to write about Corona, that is the question....
Two things are necessary, a realisation of the severity of the situation and hope that we will survive it.
a lesson from a child psychologist...
A simple practice, that deserves repeating, which a child psychologist friend of ours teaches the kids that come to see her (It's helpful for adults too, maybe even more so).
Cursed with knowledge, blessed with speech. (Dealing with chaos and other monsters)
Human beings are conscious. We know that we are here, we know that we are going to die. We know that danger lurks, I'm pretty sure neither of my dogs is worried about COVID-19, load shedding, or the economy.
Sweat and Blood
“Sweat in training so you do not bleed in war”, whoever said that hit the nail on the head.