Tag: work life balance

  • Monday Zen: Simplification & Leaving Spaces

    Monday Zen: Simplification & Leaving Spaces

    Cultivating a less-complicated life and living the cast iron philosophy shouldn’t need to be an active, busy pursuit towards simplification. How would that even make sense, after all? I opened up my email inbox this morning to a corporate reminder that I had excess vacation to use up. Somewhere in a human resources database I

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  • ch-ch-ch-changes.

    It’s been nearly a month since I’ve dropped a post here, I realize, but with the world swirling in chaos and my life sometimes feeling like a lot of the same, I now find myself needing to write yet another explanation post. I’ve been thinking a lot about my professional life these days. I’m locked

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  • Merry Christmas

    What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant amount of business. It concluded

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  • Another Life Reset

    Nearly every day for the last year this blog has given me space to think about and write about living a more simple, purposeful life. Better food. Longer walks. Moments of captured creativity. But so what’s my point? Who or what are you leaving behind in 2021? I guess getting to the end of a

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  • Short: Friday Fires

    Long work days, short cool evenings. I had my phone in one hand and an axe in the other (metaphorically speaking, of course) as Friday’s quitting time slipped into view. The benefit of (still) working from home is that I can check the laptop for rogue, last-minute emails even while I heat up the backyard

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