Work

We have heard it over and over again: “Follow your passion!” “Do what you love and the money will find you.” “Passion is energy.” We appreciate the significance of passion. We find ourselves passionate about things and become relentless in pursuing them. Passion motivates us to take action. The challenge for me has not been what passion urges me […]

For longer than I can remember, I have wanted to change the world. Reading biographies and history as a boy convinced me that we write our own stories. We live in a society filled with examples of individuals who created significant change in the world. One person with strong belief and effective action could change

We seem to live in a world more and more subject to suffering. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed. Responding to suffering has become part of our regular experience each day, each week. People suffer, whether our friends, our families, or someone we have never met on the other side of the world. Our hearts and our minds are

There may not be a “perfect job” for me. My experience includes lots of different kinds of work, in various jobs, for diverse organizations. I have done work, and worked for companies, I did not love. One person told me one of those experiences was “the perfect job, in hell,” and that was close to true. There

It is easy for us to get caught up in what needs to be done immediately. We have a list of work we need to do this morning, today, this week, and this month. Our long range goals are for this year. We work to make progress right now, and keep moving. We may not remember the

We put a lot of time and attention into making life work for us. Sometimes everything fits, all the pieces work together well. We see ourselves doing a good job. Nothing catches us by surprise, everything is balanced and complete. Our efforts are paying off, life is working well for us. There are other times when life is

We measure our strength by testing ourselves to find out how far we can go. Even when we compete against someone else, our truest competitors are ourselves. We build strength by pushing against our limits. We want to run faster, push harder, or create more innovative technology than we have before. We want to continue developing new

It can be a challenge to remember work does not have to make us miserable. The times we struggle, the times we are frustrated, tend to stay with us longer than other experiences. We remember when we thought someone got in our way. When people encourage us or inspire us, it tends to wear off

We believe in the positive power of pressure. When the pressure is on, people do their best work. Our heroes come through against all odds on the last page or at the end of the movie. Our attention is riveted to an athletic contest coming down to the last play at the very end. We

I am a recovering attorney. I decided to become a lawyer while I was in elementary school. My experience with lawyers came entirely from watching television and reading books. Learning about lawyers showed me how our society understands truth and justice. We believe we learn the truth through conflict. We display our differences, cross examine each other, and