The turning of the year is a human construct, but we still imbue it with all kinds of meaning. I don’t go in much for resolutions, and the statistics about people actually keeping those resolutions (Save more! Eat healthy! Call my mom!) is kind of laughable. Still, to...
“Success leads to happiness” is a story. It’s so powerful and pervasive a story that often we don’t even realize that it’s working in our lives as a kind of operating system below our consciousness. We’re following a narrative that we haven’t consciously...
We all want to be happy. That’s a given. Written into our Declaration of Independence is our common belief in an unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. But should we pursue happiness, and how does our work intersect with and impact our happiness? The...
West Michigan celebrated the 4th of July with some spectacular fire works shows! How great it was to see people gathered in celebration once again. Celebrations certainly have a way of bringing people together around the positive accomplishments we share. They also...
(This post was first published here on January 4, 2016.) When was the last time your team did something that made a difference? That they went the extra mile? That they hit their goals, or accomplished more than was asked of them? When was the last time you celebrated...
(This post was first published here on November 7, 2016.) I am reading a good book right now called Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. In a nutshell, this book is about the various psychological studies done over many years around what...
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