Monday Morning Mojo

This Moment Counts

There is so much to do! So many cool things are going on! So many possibilities exist. Yet each is built upon this moment. Some say, this moment is all we have – the whole universe extends from there. Everything hinges on what you do right now. That sounds like a lot to consider! But, […]

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Parallel Universe

I loved math in college. I could definitely have finished my graduate studies and become a math teacher – I think it’s still in me today. Sometimes I fantasize about that parallel universe. How might things have been different for me if I had finished graduate school instead of following the path I took, choosing

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Our Interconnected World

I am at Bennington College in Vermont, a potential location for my son’s academic home.  Together we sat in on student presentations and one was from a class entitled, Entangled Worlds. This course explores humanity’s significant impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. There is a new term that is being bandied about in scientific literature –

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Daily Workout

When you make the committment to transform your body, you go to the gym.  But, it’s not a one-shot deal. You go regularly.  Physical fitness takes consistent effort and sustained action.  It’s the same with mindset. That is why people read devotionals, religious texts with daily passages. Every day they focus their minds on spiritual

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Don’t Settle!

Issy Sharp, the Canadian hotelier, noted in the early days of his career that there were two types of hotels in Canada, his homeland. The first type was small, with a limited number of rooms. These little facilities provided highly customized service to their guests. As there were only a few rooms it was easy

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Escape Velocity

Take a particular goal you are working on – could be personal or professional. Most people plot out what it’s going to take to get from here to there, but that doesn’t take into account all of the bottlenecks, exceptional circumstances, deviations, obstacles or logjams that are part of life. If you want to blast

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Get Ahead of Yourself

The well-known story that illustrates the above point is Apple releasing the first iPhone while the iPod was still so popular, essentially cannibalizing their bestseller to sell something else. And the rationale, someone was going to take out the iPod, so Apple figured it ought to be them. You see they wanted the next bestseller

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