Amit Sood, author of The Mayo Clinic Guide to Stress-Free Living, says the keys to lowering stress include creatively tackling your stressors, having an attitude of gratitude, accepting people, especially Read More »
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Reflections on Takers, Matchers, and Givers
Adam Grant is the youngest-tenured and highest-rated professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches organizational psychology. He advises companies about how to Read More »
Reflections on Spiritual Lessons about Divorce from a Former Divorce Attorney
By Jim Holbrook Based on article by Tejal Patel, 6 Spiritual Lessons I Learned From Being A Divorce Attorney (February 6, 2014), http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-12541/6-spiritual-lessons-i-learned-from-being-a-divorce-attorney.html As a first-generation American, raised by immigrant Read More »
Reflections on Choices, Grace, and Calling
By Jim Holbrook Our lives can be viewed as systems that interweave personal needs and desire, choices, chance, necessity, intention, imperfect knowledge, consequences, and grace. Our choices (which may be Read More »
Reflections on Paths of Purpose and Meaning
by Jim Holbrook Here are some of my favorite quotes about finding and following paths that lead to purpose and meaning: Hugh Black, CAPTAIN HUGH BLACK PAPERS: The very first Read More »
Reflections on The Six Enemies of Greatness and Happiness
These six factors can erode the grandest of plans and the noblest of intentions: (Jessica Hagy, FORBES.COM, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/02/28/the-six-enemies-of-greatness-and-happiness/) 1) Availability We often settle for what’s available, and what’s available isn’t Read More »
Reflections on the Importance of Mistakes, Recovery, and Resilience
Author Craig Lambert in his book, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998), at pages 85, 87-88 instructs us on the importance Read More »
Reflections on Conflict between Warriors and Healers
An “archetype” is a comprehensive pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that characterizes a person as being of a certain type or even stereotype. Archetypes are the subjects of Greek Read More »
Reflections on Lessons I Learned from Izzi Wagner
Saturdays with Izzi by Jim Holbrook For eight years, until he died in 2005, I went to lunch with my mentor, Izzi Wagner, at least once a week. This evolved Read More »
Reflections about the Dogs Who Have Loved Me
By Jim Holbrook I was 38-years old when I got my first dog. Emma was an Irish Wolfhound, who lived a full life expectancy and died at six of metastasized Read More »