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Love of The Week

Ya know, sometimes you hate the taste of your own medicine, and sometimes you love it. This week, I loved it. Here’s what I mean.

We all go around making pronouncements. “I’m going to work less.” “I’m going to exercise more.” These kinds of statements are, fundamentally, values declarations. We’re saying, “This is what I believe, this is what I want.”

And then…nothing changes. Why not? Well, usually because one of the Four Horsemen of Values Destruction has galloped away with our good intentions. (For more about those pesky horsemen, tune into this week’s podcast).

I am no exception. But this weekend, I deliberately fought back.

My number one value is Cosmos, which means faith in the Becoming You language of values. I cannot tell you the number of times, however, that I have skipped church to (brace yourself) accommodate my dogs’ desire to get to the countryside on the weekends. I also love getting into nature, but my church is in Manhattan, and I decided we all could – and should and WOULD – put my value of getting with God first for a change.

And so we spent Sunday in the concrete jungle. And ever since, my heart has soared.

By the way, the dogs and I did get into the countryside later, and we all lived. And I also got to feel the joy (yes, that) that comes when you live not by default, but by design.

Love of the Week

Ya know, sometimes you hate the taste of your own medicine, and sometimes you love it. This week, I loved it. Here’s what I mean.

We all go around making pronouncements. “I’m going to work less.” “I’m going to exercise more.” These kinds of statements are, fundamentally, values declarations. We’re saying, “This is what I believe, this is what I want.”

And then…nothing changes. Why not? Well, usually because one of the Four Horsemen of Values Destruction has galloped away with our good intentions. (For more about those pesky horsemen, tune into this week’s podcast).

I am no exception. But this weekend, I deliberately fought back.

My number one value is Cosmos, which means faith in the Becoming You language of values. I cannot tell you the number of times, however, that I have skipped church to (brace yourself)

accommodate my dogs’ desire to get to the countryside on the weekends. I also love getting into nature, but my church is in Manhattan, and I decided we all could – and should and WOULD – put my value of getting with God first for a change.

And so we spent Sunday in the concrete jungle. And ever since, my heart has soared.

By the way, the dogs and I did get into the countryside later, and we all lived. And I also got to feel the joy (yes, that) that comes when you live not by default, but by design.

Hate of the Week

If I felt joy this week, I also felt sorrow, because #life.

It was the one-year anniversary of the passing of Eva Evans, whom I met as a bright light 15 years ago, when she was just a girl, and who shone like a blazing star until suddenly and inexplicably, she shone no more one unbearable day in April.

If I felt joy this week, I also felt sorrow, because #life.

It was the one-year anniversary of the passing of Eva Evans, whom I met as a bright light 15 years ago, when she was just a girl, and who shone like a blazing star until suddenly and inexplicably, she shone no more one unbearable day in April.

There is no silver lining to such a tragedy. But Eva was always teaching all of us with her brilliance and wit, and in her leaving, she taught me to love even harder, and more tenderly. None of us saw the hopelessness she was battling inside until it was too late, to our everlasting regret.

The only antidote I know is to honor her legacy by using every opportunity in my classroom, and here too, to say this. My friends, everything is going to be OK. Even if it’s not OK now, it is going to be OK.

It will be. The center will hold. Please stay to see that with those who love you.

Hmm of the Week

OK, I’m back puzzling about Valerie, the dachshund who vanished when her owners took her on an outing to Australia’s Kangaroo Island nearly two years ago. Since then, there have been numerous Valerie sightings, but somehow she has eluded capture.

I say “somehow,” but given that my dachshund Pierre’s antics have tricked me too many times to count, I should not be surprised. Indeed, dachshunds may be the only dogs who have a cult around them whose members agree their “leader” is, um, demonic.

But also: adorable!

Someone that I work with recently suggested that Valerie’s disappearance is a publicity stunt, and that Valerie is likely at home sleeping, as dachshunds are wont to do, when not yapping incessantly or eating your favorite chair.

This theory has me obsessed because I realize I may have been tricked by a dachshund AGAIN. I may be a professor of management at a fine university, but tell me, when it comes to little wiener dogs, am I…the village idiot?

I Think My Heart Just Stopped

Becoming You just hit the #1 spot on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list. Major eek!

To celebrate, I’m sending you a sneak peek of Chapter Five from the book, along with a signed bookplate. To redeem, just register your pre-order here.

Secure Your Copy Today!

Becoming You just hit the #1 spot on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” list. Major eek!

To celebrate, I’m sending you a sneak peek of Chapter Five from the book, along with a signed bookplate. To redeem, just register your pre-order here.

Secure Your Copy Today!

Accidents Happen; You Just Don’t Want Your Life to be One

We’re told to live intentionally. But often, without realizing it, we do the opposite. In this week’s episode, we focus on the four saboteurs of intentional living: a framework for examining why we lose direction, and what it takes to course-correct.

Tune in Here!