Serving, Contribution, Calling
I’m over at Huffington Post today, writing about one of the things I think we most need to do in order to heal the world. I really love this post. Sometimes it’s hard to put into words our most core beliefs. It’s hard not just to articulate them, but to even know what they [...]
This is your time. Your time to say what you have kept silent. Your time to ask your big questions without apology. Your time to shine like a blazing comet, whether they like it or not. Your time to believe what your heart tells you: that this world could be very different. Your [...]
My friend, colleague and mentor Jen Louden is working on a beautiful project, the Serve and Savor Experiment. But wait. Before I tell you about the project, let me tell you about Jen. She is wise, courageous, honest, grounded, loving, real. She’s a gifted teacher and writer. I’ve been reading her books since I was [...]
My friend, colleague and mentor Jen Louden is working on a beautiful project, the Serve and Savor Experiment. Jen is wise, courageous, honest, grounded, loving, real. She’s a gifted teacher and writer. Serve and Savor is her year-long exploration into how we can serve while still savoring, how serving the world and savoring the world [...]
Let’s say, you go to Target. For $29.99, you buy the new Swiffy-Swaffy, an automated device that can suck up dust through your house and polish your counter tops. Great. Great as long as it’s sucking up dust and polishing countertops. But let’s say you look over and it’s sucking up all [...]
I want to say this, again: I’ve often been struck by the idea that all the suffering in the world, all the world’s problems and deficits and cruelties are exactly equal in might and force to the love, the gifts, the talents, latent in all the world’s inhabitants. In this way, the world [...]
Hi there, Big, contented sigh. I have been very, very busy spreading the word about Playing Big over the last several weeks, writing curriculum, lining up speakers, and learning more about credit card processing than I ever wanted to know. Registration closed on Monday, and I’m thrilled – and so honored – that [...]
This post is a special sneak peak into the first lesson of Playing Big, on callings. Today is the last day to register. Click here for the details. How do you recognize a calling? Look for one or more of these clues: 1. You feel an unusually vivid pain or frustration around the [...]
Callings are dispatches from the universe about what work is yours to do. Callings are your assignments for bringing light into the world. Oh wait. Here’s what they really are: When you take the great love for all life, when you take the great power of service when you take the energy of [...]
If you are searching for your life purpose, you are in luck. The search stops here. It’s become a common thing in our culture to try to “find your purpose.” It’s thought of almost like finding a soul mate: there’s a big epiphany as you discover your one true purpose and then… you and [...]
